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The Natori Foundation at a glance

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The Natori Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$322k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$185k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$998kEducation$414kReligion$250kAnimals$11kInternational$11kHuman Services$4kEnvironment$1kHealth$1k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $265k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL$185,000
ORCHESTRA OF ST LUKES$80,000
NIGHTINGALE - BAMFORD SCHOOL$25,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
MANHATTAN VILLE COLLEGE$11,000
THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL$5,000
MERCADO GLOBAL$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%FOUNDATIONS FOR FILIPINO ARTISTS: $1k → 13%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 9 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$1.6M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+95%

Still filing today

67%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsInternationalArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AC
    ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $640k · revenue +5%
  • SL
    ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $356k · revenue +69%
  • MU
    MANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $261k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • FI
    FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +32%
  • PT
    PATH TO PEACE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +507%
  • FI
    FixGeorgiaPets Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +74%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
6
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
7
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
8
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
9
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
10
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts North America Inc

The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…

Arts & Culture
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Cultural Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Filipino ArtistsInc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC: $640,000 · InternationalASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC+1 more: $500 · InternationalST PATRICKS CATHEDRAL: $150,000 · OtherST PATRICKS CATHEDRALIndividual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL: $70,000 · OtherTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOLFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherFASHION INSTITUTE OF TEC…+4 more: $19,000 · OtherST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC: $356,000 · Arts & CultureST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMB…+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY: $261,000 · EducationMANHATTANVILLE UNIVER…THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $57,500 · EducationTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFO…FixGeorgiaPets Inc: $7,000 · AnimalsBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $3,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC: $1,000 · AnimalsOCEANA INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentFoundation for Filipino ArtistsInc: $1,000 · Human ServicesURBAN ZEN FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
International$640,500Other$359,000Arts & Culture$357,000Education$318,500Animals$11,000Environment$1,000Human Services$1,000Philanthropy$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC: $640,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC: $356,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetMANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY: $261,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $57,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPATH TO PEACE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFixGeorgiaPets Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOCEANA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN ZEN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCADO GLOBAL INC: $500 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.

Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY11.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Natori Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Natori Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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