Kazuo & Mary Yamane Family Foundation
This organization is a private foundation dedicated to supporting various charitable causes. Its mission focuses on addressing food insecurity, enhancing educational opportunities, and promoting environmental conservation. The foundation provides funding to initiatives such as Meals on Wheels, educational programs in schools, and environmental youth summits. It primarily serves organizations within the state of Washington.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
A small to mid-sized Washington state nonprofit with a demonstrated local program in food access, education, or youth environmental programming and an existing local relationship or introduction to the foundation or its grantees.
Good Fit
- • Organizational base and programs operating in Washington state.
- • Project-level requests for modest, programmatic support (historical grants were small to mid-sized).
- • Work in food access (Meals on Wheels), school music or youth environmental education.
- • An existing relationship or referral from a past grantee, local intermediary, or community leader.
Geography
All observed grants across the available years were to organizations in Washington state, with in-state giving making up the entirety of reported dollars.
Recipient Variety
Across two years the foundation funded a small set of independent charities (two recipients in 2022 and one in 2023), showing some diversity of mission but a very small overall portfolio.
New Applicants
The foundation explicitly indicates funding is limited to preselected recipients, there is no public application portal or public contact information, and observed behavior shows invitation-style grants; direct evidence of open entry for unfamiliar applicants is therefore weak.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
