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Tracy Katayama - Esse 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.

$10k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$279
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Tracy Katayama - Esse Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$10k0%
FY20232$7k50%
FY20223$8k67%
FY20214$8k25%
FY20209$25k78%
FY20192$16k0%
FY20182$19k0%
FY20173$9kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$38kEducation$37kHealth$18kPhilanthropy$5kArts & Culture$2kAnimals$1kEnvironment$1kFood & Nutrition$600Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Everychild Foundation$36,27261%
Pomona College$26,50040%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$16,00020%
Japanese American National Museum$1,50020%
The Colleagues Inc$1,00010%
Tower Cancer Research Foundation$1,00010%
Earthjustice$1,00010%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$60010%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tracy Katayama - Esse Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Everychild Foundation: $36,272 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPomona College: $26,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJapanese American National Museum: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Colleagues Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTower Cancer Research Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarthjustice: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Regional Food Bank: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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About Tracy Katayama - Esse Foundation Inc

How much does Tracy Katayama - Esse Foundation Inc give?
Tracy Katayama - Esse Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Tracy Katayama - Esse Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Education (36%), Health (18%).
Who are Tracy Katayama - Esse Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Everychild Foundation ($36k), Pomona College ($27k), The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc ($16k).
Does Tracy Katayama - Esse Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tracy Katayama - Esse Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Tracy Katayama - Esse Foundation Inc based?
Tracy Katayama - Esse Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 17 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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