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The Kaneka Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$280k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$187kHealth$162kHuman Services$52kEnvironment$40kFood & Nutrition$33kAnimals$29kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $188k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
$8,912
Median grant
6
States reached
$462k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE A WISH TEXAS GULF COAST AND LOUISIANA$57,283
ALSAC ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RES HOSPITAL$47,542
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION$25,000
SAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000
LA PORTE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$20,000
PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$20,000
ARMAND BAYOU NATURE CENTER$20,000
PASADENA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS: $10k → 16%PROJECT JOY & HOPE FOR TEXAS: $3k → 16%PROJECT JOY & HOPE FOR TEXAS: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IA
OH
CA
AZ
TN
NC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$323k · 14 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$323k
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
-4%

Still filing today

71%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +44%
  • LP
    La Porte Education Foundation
    4× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +14%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • MA
    MAKE A WISH
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • The Houston Food Bank
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -4%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY EAST HARRIS COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
2
William Marsh Rice University

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…

Education
3
University of Houston Foundation

University of Houston Foundation provides program support to University of Houston System for various scholarship and educational programs.

Education
4
Houston Health Foundation

Houston health foundation (hhf) has the mission of creating private/public partnerships for sustainable health and wellness initiatives and programs in our communities.

Philanthropy
5
Texas Heart Institute

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.

Health
6
Houston Geological Society Foundation
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7
Greater Texas Foundation
Education
8
Baylor Health Care System Foundation

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…

Health
9
Lamar University Foundation Inc

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…

Education
10
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
11
Texas Bankers Foundation
Education
12
Houston Independent School District Foundation

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
13/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCALSAC ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RES HOSPITAL: $47,542 · OtherALSAC ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RES HOSPITALMAKE A WISH: $25,000 · OtherMAKE A WISHThe Houston Food Bank: $25,000 · OtherThe Houston Food BankPASADENA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · OtherPASADENA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATIONPASADENA LIVESTOCK SHOW & RODEO: $18,088 · OtherPASADENA LIVESTOCK SHOW & RODEOSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $15,000 · OtherSTAR OF HOPE MISSION+10 more: $55,557 · Other+10 moreMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC: $57,283 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATI…American Heart Association Inc: $38,451 · HealthAmerican Heart Assoc…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,770 · Health+1 more: $3,267 · HealthLa Porte Education Foundation: $50,000 · EducationLa Porte Educat…PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationPASADENA ISD ED…ESSENTIAL FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationESSENTIAL FRIEN…+3 more: $3,000 · EducationSAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $34,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Houston: $2,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyArmand Bayou Nature Center Inc: $35,000 · EnvironmentGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $5,000 · EnvironmentSea Turtle Conservancy: $20,000 · InternationalTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT JOY & HOPE FOR TEXAS: $5,500 · Human ServicesBakerRipley: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$281,187Health$102,771Education$78,000Philanthropy$41,500Environment$40,000International$20,000Human Services$16,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC: $57,283 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLa Porte Education Foundation: $50,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $38,451 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArmand Bayou Nature Center Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $34,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSea Turtle Conservancy: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBENICIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetPROJECT JOY & HOPE FOR TEXAS: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESSENTIAL FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,770 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,267 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA PORTE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Albemarle FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Air Products Foundati…Celanese FoundationGreater Houston Commu…Wr Grace Foundation I…Strake FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Albemarle FoundationNC23.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Kaneka Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kaneka Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Kaneka Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kaneka Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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