How much did THE HIDEO SASAKI FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of THE HIDEO SASAKI FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

design winnerattend aiaaia conference

2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

cambridgeroxburyone-timehealingpaymentmovementgarden

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k19 grants · $42k
$10k–50k4 grants · $46k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$118k

Total assets

Largest grants

TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE$15,000
CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$10,500
BOSTON PUBLIC HOUSING CORPORATION$10,000
RESIST INC$10,000
SOCIEDAD LATINA INC$5,500
FOUR CORNERS MAIN STREET INC$5,500
THE HARBORKEEPERS$5,000
AYNI INSTITUTE$5,000
EAST END HOUSE INC$3,000
SPONSOR INC DBA MISSION EARTH$2,000
COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC$2,000
CITIZENS OF THE WORLD INC$2,000
PROJECT RESTORE US INC$2,000
FRIENDS OF BALDWIN SCHOOL INC$2,000
ON THE RISE INC$1,184

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$297k · 29 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$297k

$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+34%

Still filing today

69%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE
2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +17%
RI
RESIST INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue +1062%
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY
2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +396%

Funded once

MU
MIT URBAN PLANNING
one grant, 2018 · $10k
KM
KELLIE MAIN
one grant, 2019 · $10k
HE
HOME ENERGY EFFICIENCY TEAMNATHAN PHILLIPS
one grant, 2020 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment

Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

Engaging local business leaders in governmental and philanthropic activities, connecting and educating its members, and providing a forum for addressing the needs of the cambridge, massachusetts business community.

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Urban Guild Inc

The corporation is organized to improve the quality of life in boston's urban communities by building capacity, environmental health, and providing economic opportunity in a manner that responds directly to community needs, interests, and…

Community Improvement

Boston Preservation Alliance Inc

Advocacy for the preservation of the uniquely built environment of boston, massachusetts.

Education

Southwest Boston Community Development

The southwest boston community development corporation is led by principles of racial equity and inclusion, to alleviate social and economic disparities that impact people's quality of life and future opportunities. it shall be led by and…

Community Improvement

Worcester Community Action Council Inc

Helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.

Human Services

Massachusetts Affordable Housing

Massachusetts affordable housing alliance, inc. (maha) breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter

True Costs Initiative Inc

True costs initiative (tci) seeks to increase corporate accountability and to strengthen legal systems in the global south by driving collaboration among communities, funders, and creative leaders in an effort to tip the balance so…

International

Brookline Arts Center

The Brookline Arts Center is a visual arts center committed to bringing the community meaningful experience in the arts through classes, exhibitions and outreach.

Arts & Culture

Riverside Community Care Inc

We make a difference through innovative & compassionate behavioral healthcare & human services.

Health

The Commons Inc

Partnering with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cambridge Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lesley University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/36

the rest of the field

1,541/17,239

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/34

Grantees still filing

24/34

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$235,500Environment$37,500Education$30,000Human Services$29,684Arts & Culture$29,000Community Improvement$25,000Housing & Shelter$21,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boston Foundation IncMA35.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation · Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Cambridge Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Albert O Wilson Foundation Inc · Gravestar Foundation · Wagner Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE HIDEO SASAKI FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

13get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PROJECT RESTORE US INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 872164150 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PROJECT RESTORE US INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Hideo Sasaki Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Hideo Sasaki Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE HIDEO SASAKI FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Hideo Sasaki Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE HIDEO SASAKI FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Hideo Sasaki Foundation?

More from the funding graph