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Waka 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.

$783
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$783
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$55kFood & Nutrition$17kEnvironment$16kReligion$9kInternational$8kAnimals$4kCrime & Legal$1kHousing & Shelter$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$783
Median grant
1
States reached
$320k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE THRESHOLD FOUNDATION$783
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE EDIBLE SCHOOL: $2k → 10%THE THRESHOLD FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%STONE BARNS CENTER FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE: $5k → 9%STORM KING ART CENTER: $1k → 14%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1k → 17%NOFA NY CERTIFIED ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF NY: $4k → 20%rain forest foundation: $1k → 20%WORLD CENTRAL: $2k → 14%THE SARASOTA BALLET: $3k → 10%CARE USA: $2k → 13%THE THRESHOLD FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%STONE BARNS CENTER FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE: $3k → 9%STORM KING ART CENTER: $1k → 14%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1k → 17%THE SARASOTA BALLET: $2k → 10%THE THRESHOLD FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%STONE BARNS CENTER FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE: $1k → 9%whitney museum of american art: $1k → 17%THE SARASOTA BALLET: $1k → 10%THE THRESHOLD FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%STONE BARNS CENTER FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE: $1k → 9%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1k → 17%THE THRESHOLD FOUNDATION: $783 → 10%STONE BARNS CENTER FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE: $1k → 9%KCNY: $2k → 17%INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $5k → 17%THE INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK: $3k → 17%doctors without borders usa: $1k → 17%NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK MUSEUM FOR GERMAN AND AUSTRAIN ART: $3k → 17%NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK MUSEUM FOR GERMAN AND AUSTRAIN ART: $3k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $10k → 17%NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK MUSEUM FOR GERMAN AND AUSTRAIN ART: $1k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $6k → 17%NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK MUSEUM FOR GERMAN AND AUSTRAIN ART: $1k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $2k → 17%RAZOM ZDONA: $2k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $1k → 17%FOOD EDUCATION FUND: $1k → 17%THE JEWISH MUSEUM: $1k → 17%THE JEWISH MUSEUM: $1k → 17%FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER: $2k → 17%FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER: $1k → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $4k → 17%THE MAD FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%NEW YORK CITY AUDUBON: $2k → 17%NEW YORK CITY AUDUBON: $1k → 17%POETS HOUSE: $1k → 17%POETS HOUSE: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
CT
CA
UT
NC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$81k · 20 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
23

Total granted

$81k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+27%

Still filing today

75%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TF
    THRESHOLD FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • SB
    Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc
    3× · 2017–2021 · $6k · revenue +131%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    4× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +161%

Funded once

  • IC
    INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +153%
  • NN
    NOFA NY CERTIFIED ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF NY
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • AM
    American Museum of Natural History
    one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +20%
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
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
2
Berggruen Institute
Education
3
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
4
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
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
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
7
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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8
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
9
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
11
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
12
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. 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

28 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. 28 of the 44 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $16,137 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN OPERAINTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $7,500 · OtherINTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INCNEUE GALERIE NEW YORK MUSEUM FOR GERMAN AND AUSTRAIN ART: $7,000 · OtherNEUE GALERIE NEW YORK MUSEUM FOR GERMAN AND AUSTRA…NOFA NY CERTIFIED ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF NY: $3,500 · OtherNOFA NY CERTIFIED ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF NYNEW YORK CITY AUDUBON: $3,150 · OtherNEW YORK CITY AUDUBONIndividual grant recipient: $2,489 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL: $2,449 · OtherTHE EDIBLE SCHOOL: $2,050 · OtherKCNY: $2,000 · Other+9 more: $4,233 · Other+9 moreStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri: $10,504 · Arts & CultureStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone B…Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc: $5,950 · Arts & CultureSarasota Ballet of Florida IncWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $4,400 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTAmerican Museum of Natural History: $3,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural HistorySTORM KING ART CENTER: $3,250 · Arts & CultureSTORM KING ART CENTERFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INCTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $2,925 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUMMuseum of Modern Art: $2,285 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern ArtPOETS HOUSE INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $820 · Arts & CultureTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION: $9,581 · InternationalTHRESHOLD FOUND…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $2,449 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR…The American-Scandinavian Foundation: $2,000 · InternationalThe American-Sc…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,100 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS F…+1 more: $500 · InternationalTHE MAD FOUNDATION INC: $1,515 · EducationFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC: $1,250 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $250 · EducationRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMS: $1,000 · EnvironmentReal Organic Project Inc: $750 · EnvironmentThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $100 · EnvironmentTHE LIVESTOCK CONSERVANCY INC: $850 · Food & NutritionNEW YORK STATE SHERIFFS' INSTITUTE: $100 · Crime & Legal
Other$50,508Arts & Culture$40,634International$15,630Education$3,015Environment$2,850Food & Nutrition$850Crime & Legal$100

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 budgetStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri: $10,504 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION: $9,581 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc: $5,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $4,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER: $3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $2,925 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $2,449 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $2,285 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOETS HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe American-Scandinavian Foundation: $2,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAD FOUNDATION INC: $1,515 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SHAMANIC STUDIES INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIVESTOCK CONSERVANCY INC: $850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetReal Organic Project Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSundance Institute: $570 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STATE SHERIFFS' INSTITUTE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $100 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.

The New York Communit…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The New York Community TrustNY13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · 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 Waka Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waka Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • Real Organic Project Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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How do I get to Waka Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Waka Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 44 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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