· Private foundation
The Orokawa Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $460k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MD BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC | $1,176,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL MD | $500,000 |
| LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION | $425,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $335,000 |
| CAMP SUNSHINE | $300,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $250,000 |
| ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| ROCA BALTIMORE LLC | $150,000 |
| PAUL'S PLACE OUTREACH CENTER INC | $150,000 |
| THE FAMILY TREE | $147,180 |
| NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC | $125,000 |
| WORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION | $112,500 |
| INSIDEOUT WRITERS | $100,000 |
| ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
65 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 11 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +61%
- CSCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +9%
- ACASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $625k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FOUNDATION DR RODone grant, 2023 · $500k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $400k
- LCLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION TOMMOROW'S PROMISE CAMPAIGNone grant, 2023 · $300k
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.
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.
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
How this is measured
60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 92 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds INSIDEOUT WRITERS INC ↗
- Who funds Itineris Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds B'MORE CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCA PALLIN YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN STREET ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Sherman Family Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Orokawa Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Orokawa Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
- Center for Urban Families Inc: 36% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: 33% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc: 29% of income from government
- Baltimore Squashwise Inc: 23% of income from government
- Family Crisis Center of Baltimore County Inc: 21% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc: 18% of income from government
- Jubilee Baltimore Inc: 16% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc: 9% of income from government
- Avalon Foundation Inc: 6% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc: 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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