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The Sato Fdn Separate Fund

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.

$376k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$580kPhilanthropy$450kEducation$283kAnimals$215kHealth$170kEnvironment$75kScience & Tech$60kYouth Development$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$65,000
NAPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$35,000
AWAKE$20,000
KQED$20,000
PERFORMING STARS$15,000
MOUNTAIN SCHOOL$15,000
KALA ART INSTITUTE$15,000
LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE$10,000
ASIAN ART MUSEUM$10,000
MASS AUBUDON BNC CAMP$10,000
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY$10,000
WILDCARE$10,000
CITY SURF PROJECT$10,000
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $15k → 8%LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $15k → 8%NAPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $70k → 9%SAFARI WEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%VOENA: $15k → 10%REGENTS OF UC: $15k → 10%FINE ART MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $15k → 10%AWAKE: $20k → 14%AIM HIGH: $15k → 8%DENVER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $15k → 10%THE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $20k → 10%MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $15k → 8%MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%NAPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%SAFARI WEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%VOENA: $15k → 10%CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $15k → 10%THE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $20k → 10%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $35k → 8%MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75k → 8%NAPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%SAFARI WEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%VOENA: $15k → 10%KALA ART INSTITUTE: $20k → 10%CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $15k → 10%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $15k → 10%THE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $15k → 10%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $35k → 8%MARINHEALTH FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%NAPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40k → 9%SAFARI WEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%KALA ART INSTITUTE: $20k → 10%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $35k → 8%MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $65k → 8%KALA ART INSTITUTE: $20k → 10%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $30k → 8%MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $20k → 8%KALA ART INSTITUTE: $20k → 10%INTER-UNIVERSITY CENTER: $30k → 8%MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $20k → 8%KALA ART INSTITUTE: $15k → 10%PERFORMING STARS: $15k → 8%AILEYCAMP - CAL PERFORMANCES: $15k → 10%PERFORMING STARS OF MARIN: $15k → 8%AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER: $20k → 10%KQED: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 20 repeat orgs$369k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
14

Total granted

$1.0M
$313k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+4%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsHealthReligionHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • KA
    Kala Art Institute
    5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +41%
  • SW
    SAFARI WEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +378%
  • TM
    THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +45%
  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • MG
    MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +243%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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3
Marin Open Studios

Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…

Arts & Culture
4
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
5
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
6
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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7
Marin Theatre Company

Marin theatre company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an…

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
9
Di Rosa Preserve

Located in scenic Napa Valley, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art engages its community in the connective power of art and nature through its permanent collection of Northern California art, contemporary exhibitions, and thought-provoking…

Arts & Culture
10
Museum of Sonoma County

The museum of sonoma county engages and inspires our diverse community with art and history exhibitions, collections, and public programs that are inclusive, educational, and relevant.

Arts & Culture
11
Opera Santa Barbara

See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…

Arts & Culture
12
Oakland Museum of California

The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Napa Valley and the most unlike its peers is League to Save Lake Tahoe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr12%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%6%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr18%43%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr12%21%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
12%
3,009/24,132

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.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Kala Art Institute — $95,000 · Arts & CultureKala Art InstituteAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION — $70,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDA…ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $65,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN F…CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $60,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCESVOENA — $55,000 · Arts & CultureVOENAMARIN PERFORMING STARS — $45,000 · Arts & CultureMARIN PERFORMING STARSKQED INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INCARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $40,000 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTYYERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $40,000 · Arts & CultureYERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTSNevada Museum of Art — $25,000 · Arts & CultureRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $60,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $240,000 · PhilanthropyMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY — $210,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TH…THE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL — $85,000 · OtherTHE MOUNTAIN SCHOOLDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS…MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $50,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPI…WILDCARE — $50,000 · OtherWILDCAREAIM HIGH — $35,000 · OtherAIM HIGHINTER-UNIVERSITY CENTER — $30,000 · OtherINTER-UNIVERSITY CENTERAWAKE — $20,000 · OtherMASS AUBUDON BNC CAMP — $20,000 · OtherAwaken INC — $20,000 · Other+10 more — $116,500 · Other+10 moreSAFARI WEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $85,000 · AnimalsSAFARI WE…THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $80,000 · AnimalsTHE MARIN…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $135,000 · Education10000 DEGREES — $7,500 · EducationMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE — $48,000 · Religion
Arts & Culture$625,000Philanthropy$450,000Other$476,500Animals$165,000Education$142,500Health$50,000Religion$48,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $240,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY — $210,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $135,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKala Art Institute — $95,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetSAFARI WEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVOENA — $55,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWILDCARE — $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE — $48,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMARIN PERFORMING STARS — $45,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetKQED INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetYERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNevada Museum of Art — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNapa Valley Youth Symphony — $20,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetAwaken INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetARTS BENICIA — $20,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Surf Project — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget10000 DEGREES — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The William & Flora H…Marin Community Found…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA14.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Sato Fdn Separate Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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