· Private foundation
The KM Shimano Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $147k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER | $35,000 |
| MARINE MAMMALS OF MAINE | $30,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COASTKEEPER ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND | $20,000 |
| INWATER RESEARCH GROUP | $15,000 |
| SEA TURTLE CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND COASTAL WILDLIFE ALLIANCE INC | $12,000 |
| MARINE MAMMAL STRANDING CENTER | $7,000 |
| WILDLIFE RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $3,835 |
| SEA OTTER SAVVY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- TMTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $105k · revenue +12%
- MMMarine Mammals of Maine3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +31%
- CCCalifornia Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- AOAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%
SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INCone grant, 2023 · $34k · revenue +17%- CCCALIFORNIA COASTKEEPER ALLIANCE (THE OTTER PROJECT)one grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions
Marine Conservation
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
The mission of the California Ocean Alliance is to conduct world-class marine research which leads directly to sound policy decisions that safeguard the oceans and allow marine mammals to thrive into the next century.
Orca conservancy is working on behalf of orcinus orca, the killer whale, and protecting the wild places on which it depends.
The nmmf's mission is to improve and protect life for marine mammals, humans, and our shared oceans through science, service, and education. our vision is to be the leading laboratory in marine mammal science, where critical questions…
Translating science into action to save Southern Resident killer whales from extinction.
Scientific Research on marine mammals and education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Manatee Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sea Otter Savvy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 17 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 MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Marine Mammals of Maine ↗
- Who funds California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND COASTAL WILDLIFE ALLIAN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Inwater Research Group Inc ↗
- Who funds Sea Turtle Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Marine Mammal Stranding Center ↗
- Who funds SEA OTTER SAVVY ↗
- Who funds Sea Turtle Oversight Protection Inc ↗
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: Patagoniaorg · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization The KM Shimano Family 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.
- African Aquatic Conservation Fund Inc — 55% of income from government
- National Marine Life Center Inc — 16% of income from government
- Marine Mammal Stranding Center — 10% of income from government
- 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.