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Yukan Foundation at a glance

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Yukan 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.

$1k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$600
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$2kAnimals$2kArts & Culture$485Philanthropy$150Human Services$100Education$50Housing & Shelter$50Other$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Great Lakes Basin Conservancy Inc$600
Brandywine Valley SPCA$500
Kalmar Nyckel Foundation$100
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Delaware Humane Association: $715 → 10%ArborDay Foundation: $110 → 13%The Kiski School: $50 → 14%Community Foundation for the Alleghenies: $150 → 16%National Audubon Society: $100 → 17%Great Lakes Basin Conservancy Inc: $600 → 17%Nature Conservancy: $55 → 7%Kalmar Nickel Foundation: $110 → 10%ArborDay Foundation: $100 → 13%National Audubon Society: $50 → 17%Great Lakes Basin Conservancy Inc: $500 → 17%Kalmar Nyckel Foundation: $100 → 10%ArborDay Foundation: $30 → 13%National Audubon Society: $25 → 17%Great Lakes Basin Conservancy Inc: $500 → 17%Kalmar Nyckel Foundation: $100 → 10%Kalmar Nyckel Foundation: $100 → 10%Kalmar Nickel Foundation: $75 → 10%Delaware Humane Assoc: $75 → 10%Delaware Humane Association: $75 → 10%Salvation Army: $50 → 10%Salvation Army: $50 → 10%Bransywine Valley SPCA: $500 → 10%Brandywine Valley SPCA: $500 → 10%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3k · 6 repeat orgs$1k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$3k
$650

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+30%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • GL
    GREAT LAKES BASIN CONSERVANCY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue -50%
  • DH
    DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2019–2022 · $865 · revenue -64%
  • KN
    KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $485 · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $500
  • TK
    THE KISKI SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50 · revenue +30%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50 · revenue +37%
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
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Greater Farallones Association

Gfa works in partnership with and on behalf of the greater farallones and cordell bank national marine sanctuaries to preserve, monitor, research, educate about and enhance these invaluable marine resources.

Animals
4
Delaware Wild Lands Inc

Delaware wild lands, inc. is a private, non-profit tax exempt organization, dedicated to the conservation and preservation of natural areas through the acquisition and management of strategic parcels of land.

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5
New Jersey Audubon Society

The new jersey audubon society is a privately supported, not-for-profit, statewide membership organization. (see schedule o for details).

Environment
6
Lancaster County Conservancy

The mission of the lancaster county conservancy is "providing wild and forested lands and clean waterways for our community forever". the charitable purposes of the lancaster county conservancy include preservation of natural lands,…

Environment
7
The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals
8
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

—
9
Delaware Nature Society Inc

Delaware nature society connects people with the natural world to improve our environment through education, advocacy, and conservation.

Environment
10
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

—
11
American Littoral Society

Promote the study and conservation of marine life and its habitat, defend the coast from harm, and empower others to do the same.

Environment
12
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Arbor Day Foundation; the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREAT LAKES BASIN CONSERVANCY INC: $1,600 · AnimalsGREAT LAKES BASIN CONSERVANCY INCDELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $865 · AnimalsDELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION+1 more: $50 · AnimalsBrandywine Valley SPCA: $500 · OtherBrandywine Valley SPCAIndividual grant recipient: $500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION: $485 · OtherKALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATIONNational Audubon Society: $175 · OtherNational Audubon SocietyTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $115 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE SALVATION ARMY: $100 · Other+1 more: $50 · OtherNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $240 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $150 · PhilanthropyTHE KISKI SCHOOL: $50 · Education
Animals$2,515Other$1,925Environment$240Philanthropy$150Education$50

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREAT LAKES BASIN CONSERVANCY INC: $1,600 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $865 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION: $485 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $240 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $115 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KISKI SCHOOL: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSunday Breakfast Mission: $50 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.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Yukan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yukan 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%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Kalmar Nyckel Foundation: 14% of 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 · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Yukan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Yukan Foundation 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 13 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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