· Private foundation
The Kaneka Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $188k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE A WISH TEXAS GULF COAST AND LOUISIANA | $57,283 |
| ALSAC ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RES HOSPITAL | $47,542 |
| SAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PASADENA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| ARMAND BAYOU NATURE CENTER | $20,000 |
| LA PORTE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON SPCA | $8,912 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $3,770 |
| FORGOTTEN ANGELS | $3,645 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $3,267 |
| PASADENA LIVESTOCK SHOW & RODEO | $3,088 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +44%- LPLa Porte Education Foundation4× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +14%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- MAMAKE A WISHone grant, 2024 · $25k
The Houston Food Bankone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -4%- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY EAST HARRIS COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
University of Houston Foundation provides program support to University of Houston System for various scholarship and educational programs.
Houston health foundation (hhf) has the mission of creating private/public partnerships for sustainable health and wellness initiatives and programs in our communities.
The mission of Texas Heart Institute (THI) is to reduce the devastating toll of cardiovascular disease through innovative and progressive programs in research, education, and improved patient care.
To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health, to encourage broad-based public support of the health care system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…
The Foundation supports the development and promotion of Lamar University, its students, faculty and staff. The Lamar University Foundation supports and enhances Lamar University by encouraging the commitment of personal and financial…
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Benicia Community Foundation. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds La Porte Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Sea Turtle Conservancy ↗
- Who funds PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BENICIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT JOY & HOPE FOR TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ↗
- Who funds VITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds LA PORTE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BakerRipley ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Albemarle Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Wr Grace Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 organization The Kaneka 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sea Turtle Conservancy — 1% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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