Funding search · EIN 133738532 · New York, NY

The Norinchukin Foundation

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

24
grants reported
$112,000
total given
2022–2025
filing years
$4,500
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

  • Japan-focused education programs for U.S. teachers and students
  • Environmental and edible-gardening education for NYC schoolchildren
  • Music education for under-served New York City children
  • Urban sustainability and resiliency training programs
  • Museum permanent collections and special exhibitions

Typical grant

Every grant falls between $2,000 and $8,000, with a median of $4,500. The single largest check, $8,000, goes to Japan Society for teacher-facing Japan education resources; the smallest, $2,000, is a general culture gift to the Metropolitan Museum. Giving repeats with unusual exactness: the same six organizations received the same six amounts in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, for a flat $28,000 a year.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

  • CONTINUED SUPPORT
  • Environmental Education
  • under-served New York City children
  • education, training, and technical assistance
  • curricular materials are made widely available at no c[ost]

Positioning adjacent work

  • Frame work as K-12 environmental or arts education delivered in New York City, not as research.
  • Ask $4,000 to $5,000, matching their environmental education tier; anything larger has no precedent.
  • Cite counts of children, teachers and families served annually, the way GrowNYC and Edible Academy descriptions do.
  • Connect to Japan Society if your work involves Japan curriculum or free teacher resources.

Worth knowing: This is a closed loop: six New York City organizations, identical amounts, four years running, with no new grantee appearing in the record and the entire budget spoken for at $28,000 a year. It is a corporate-affiliated foundation whose giving reads as renewals of long-standing relationships, so a cold approach almost certainly displaces nothing and wins nothing.

4 grants matching “weekend · $32,000

  • $8,000

    Japan Society · New York, NY · 2025

    Educational Programs CONTRIBUTION IS FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN 2014: About Japan:A Teacher's Resource website (for educators where curricular materials are made widely available at no read all
  • $8,000

    Japan Society · New York, NY · 2024

    Educational Programs CONTRIBUTION IS FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN 2014: About Japan:A Teacher's Resource website (for educators where curricular materials are made widely available at no read all
  • $8,000

    Japan Society · New York, NY · 2023

    Educational Programs CONTRIBUTION IS FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN 2014: About Japan:A Teacher's Resource website (for educators where curricular materials are made widely available at no read all
  • $8,000

    Japan Society · New York, NY · 2022

    Educational Programs CONTRIBUTION IS FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN 2014: About Japan:A Teacher's Resource website (for educators where curricular materials are made widely available at no read all

Grant history

All 24 reported grants, largest first.

  • $8,000

    Japan Society · New York, NY · 2025

    Educational Programs CONTRIBUTION IS FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN 2014: About Japan:A Teacher's Resource website (for educators where curricular materials are made widely available at no read all
  • $8,000

    Japan Society · New York, NY · 2024

    Educational Programs CONTRIBUTION IS FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN 2014: About Japan:A Teacher's Resource website (for educators where curricular materials are made widely available at no read all
  • $8,000

    Japan Society · New York, NY · 2023

    Educational Programs CONTRIBUTION IS FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN 2014: About Japan:A Teacher's Resource website (for educators where curricular materials are made widely available at no read all
  • $8,000

    Japan Society · New York, NY · 2022

    Educational Programs CONTRIBUTION IS FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN 2014: About Japan:A Teacher's Resource website (for educators where curricular materials are made widely available at no read all
  • $5,000

    Midori & Friends · New York, NY · 2025

    MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAM Contribution is for continued support of Midori & Friends to enhance the lives of almost 200,000 under-served New York City children by providing high-quality music education programs. Midori & F read all
  • $5,000

    The New York Botanical Garden · Bronx, NY · 2025

    Environmental Education CONTRIBUTION IS FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT TOWARDS The Edible Academy, which currently serves 40,000 children, teachers, families, community gardeners, and adults each year with edible gardening progr read all
  • $5,000

    Midori & Friends · New York, NY · 2024

    MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAM Contribution is for continued support of Midori & Friends to enhance the lives of almost 200,000 under-served New York City children by providing high-quality music education programs. Midori & F read all
  • $5,000

    The New York Botanical Garden · Bronx, NY · 2024

    Environmental Education CONTRIBUTION IS FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT TOWARDS The Edible Academy, which currently serves 40,000 children, teachers, families, community gardeners, and adults each year with edible gardening progr read all
  • $5,000

    Midori & Friends · New York, NY · 2023

    MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAM Contribution is for continued support of Midori & Friends to enhance the lives of almost 200,000 under-served New York City children by providing high-quality music education programs. Midori & F read all
  • $5,000

    The New York Botanical Garden · Bronx, NY · 2023

    Environmental Education CONTRIBUTION IS FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT TOWARDS The Edible Academy, which currently serves 40,000 children, teachers, families, community gardeners, and adults each year with edible gardening progr read all
  • $5,000

    Midori & Friends · New York, NY · 2022

    MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAM Contribution is for continued support of Midori & Friends to enhance the lives of almost 200,000 under-served New York City children by providing high-quality music education programs. Midori & F read all
  • $5,000

    The New York Botanical Garden · Bronx, NY · 2022

    Environmental Education CONTRIBUTION IS FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT TOWARDS The Edible Academy, which currently serves 40,000 children, teachers, families, community gardeners, and adults each year with edible gardening progr read all
  • $4,000

    Grownyc · New York, NY · 2025

    Environmental Education CONTRIBUTION IS FOR GrowNYC's environmental education program offering projects in the areas of conservation, renewable energy, and nutrition to intermediate and high school students. Since 1978, read all
  • $4,000

    Solar One · New York, NY · 2025

    Environmental & Social Service CONTRIBUTION IS FOR Solar One who designs and delivers innovative education, training, and technical assistance that fosters sustainability and resiliency in diverse urban environments. So read all
  • $4,000

    Grownyc · New York, NY · 2024

    Environmental Education CONTRIBUTION IS FOR GrowNYC's environmental education program offering projects in the areas of conservation, renewable energy, and nutrition to intermediate and high school students. Since 1978, read all
  • $4,000

    Solar One · New York, NY · 2024

    Environmental & Social Service CONTRIBUTION IS FOR Solar One who designs and delivers innovative education, training, and technical assistance that fosters sustainability and resiliency in diverse urban environments. So read all
  • $4,000

    Grownyc · New York, NY · 2023

    Environmental Education CONTRIBUTION IS FOR GrowNYC's environmental education program offering projects in the areas of conservation, renewable energy, and nutrition to intermediate and high school students. Since 1978, read all
  • $4,000

    Solar One · New York, NY · 2023

    Environmental & Social Service CONTRIBUTION IS FOR Solar One who designs and delivers innovative education, training, and technical assistance that fosters sustainability and resiliency in diverse urban environments. So read all
  • $4,000

    Grownyc · New York, NY · 2022

    Environmental Education CONTRIBUTION IS FOR GrowNYC's environmental education program offering projects in the areas of conservation, renewable energy, and nutrition to intermediate and high school students. Since 1978, read all
  • $4,000

    Solar One · New York, NY · 2022

    Environmental & Social Service CONTRIBUTION IS FOR Solar One who designs and delivers innovative education, training, and technical assistance that fosters sustainability and resiliency in diverse urban environments. So read all
  • $2,000

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2025

    Culture & art contribution is for continued support of the museum's finest works of art from their permanent collection and world renowned special exhibitions.

  • $2,000

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2024

    Culture & art contribution is for continued support of the museum's finest works of art from their permanent collection and world renowned special exhibitions.

  • $2,000

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2023

    Culture & art contribution is for continued support of the museum's finest works of art from their permanent collection and world renowned special exhibitions.

  • $2,000

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2022

    Culture & art contribution is for continued support of the museum's finest works of art from their permanent collection and world renowned special exhibitions.

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