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Df Foundation

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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$212kArts & Culture$154kReligion$32kCommunity Improvement$27kYouth Development$20kEducation$11kFood & Nutrition$9kRecreation & Sports$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$967k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM$15,000
KEIRO$12,500
JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL & COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER$5,000
CHADWICK SCHOOL$5,000
LOS ANGELES HOMPA HONGWANJI BUDDHIST TEMPLE$2,500
GRATEFUL CRANE ENSEMBLE$2,500
POMONA COLLEGE$2,500
JUSTSOFTBALL FOUNDATION$2,500
PHOENIX HOUSE$2,500
CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE$2,500
LITTLE TOKYO SENIOR NUTRITION SERVICE$2,000
PALOS VERDES PENINSULA GIRLS SOFTBALL LEAGUE$500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SAN LUIS OBISPO BUDDHIST CHURCH: $3k → 12%KEIRO: $35k → 14%KEY BISCAYNE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (THE TINA DAILEY FOUNDATION): $3k → 15%SAN LUIS OBISPO BUDDHIST CHURCH: $3k → 12%KEIRO: $25k → 14%SAN LUIS OBISPO BUDDHIST CHURCH: $3k → 12%KEIRO: $25k → 14%KEIRO: $25k → 14%KEIRO: $25k → 14%KEIRO: $25k → 14%KEIRO: $25k → 14%KEIRO: $13k → 14%KEIRO: $13k → 14%LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 14%LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 14%LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 14%LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 14%LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER: $3k → 14%CHADWICK SCHOOL: $5k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL & COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $15k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $13k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $11k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL & COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $10k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $10k → 14%GO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATION CENTER: $9k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $5k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL & COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL & COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%LITTLE TOKYO NUTRITION SERVICE: $5k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $5k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL & COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES HOMPA HONGWANJI BUDDHIST TEMPLE: $3k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL & COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 14%LOS ANGELES HOMPA HONGWANJI BUDDHIST TEMPLE: $3k → 14%LOS ANGELES HOMPA HONGWANJI BUDDHIST TEMPLE: $3k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL & COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 14%LOS ANGELES HOMPA HONGWANJI BUDDHIST TEMPLE: $3k → 14%ASIA SOCIETY SOUTHERN CA: $3k → 14%LOS ANGELES HOMPA HONGWANJI BUDDHIST TEMPLE: $3k → 14%LOS ANGELES HOMPA HONGWANJI BUDDHIST TEMPLE: $3k → 14%UCLA TERASAKI CENTER FOR JAPANESE STUDIES: $4k → 14%PHOENIX HOUSE: $3k → 14%PHOENIX HOUSE: $3k → 14%PHOENIX HOUSE: $3k → 14%PHOENIX HOUSE: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$433k · 10 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$433k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+144%

Still filing today

60%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
    8× · 2018–2025 · $74k · revenue +94%
  • JA
    JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER
    7× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +4%
  • 1L
    1979 LEGACY CORP
    6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • GF
    GO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +144%
  • UT
    UCLA TERASAKI CENTER FOR JAPANESE STUDIES
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • AS
    ASIA SOCIETY SOUTHERN CA
    one grant, 2018 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Japantown Cultural Society
Education
2
Soka University of America

The mission of soka university of america is to foster a steady stream of global citizens committed to living a contributive life. continued on schedule o.

Education
3
Japan Society Inc

Japan society is the premier organization connecting japanese arts, culture, business, and society with audiences in new york and around the world. in fy2024, attendance onsite was 36.9k with 3.3k participating in online programs.

Arts & Culture
4
Nisei Week Foundation Inc

To educate the public on japanese and japanese-american history and culture.

Arts & Culture
5
Joint Chinese University Alumni Association of Southern California

To promote chinese culture and community services.

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6
Japanese American Cultural Center of Vista

To promote and foster the understanding and appreciation of japanese and japanese american art, history, and culture. to preserve and disseminate inforation about the japanese american way of life to promote the study of the japanesese…

Arts & Culture
7
Japanese Food Culture Association

To inform members of the general public about japanese food culture, its potential health benefits, quality and availability in the united states to organize events, including but not limited to japanese food & sake festival, to promote…

Arts & Culture
8
Long Beach Japanese Cultural Center

The long beach japanese cultural center has served as the primary facility in long beach harbor area in furthering an understanding and appreciation of the japanese culture and the japanese american experience through its offerings of…

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9
Us-Japan Research Institute Suite 801
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10
Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress

To initiate and participate in activities that will promote the history, culture and social welfare of the japanese american community in southern california.this includes education about the world war ii incarceration of japanese american.

Unclassified
11
Yonsei Basketball Association

Provide a cultural exchange program with japan for the youth of southern californians to better understand the heritage of japan.

International
12
The Asian-American Senior Citizen Association
Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Japanese American Cultural and Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Pomona College. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KEIRO — $210,000 · OtherKEIROLOS ANGELES HOMPA HONGWANJI BUDDIST TEMPLE — $18,500 · OtherLOS ANGELES HOMPA HONGWANJI BUDDIST TEMPLEPHOENIX HOUSE — $18,000 · OtherPHOENIX HOUSESAN LUIS OBISPO BUDDHIST CHURCH — $13,000 · Other+7 more — $15,950 · Other+7 moreJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM — $73,950 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUMJAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $45,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMM…GRATEFUL CRANE ENSEMBLE INC — $22,150 · Arts & CultureGRATEFUL CRANE ENSEMBLE INCGO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $9,000 · Arts & CultureGO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL C…+1 more — $500 · Arts & Culture1979 LEGACY CORP — $24,500 · Community ImprovementCHINATOWN FRESNO FOUNDATION — $1,500 · Community ImprovementLITTLE TOKYO COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC — $1,000 · Community ImprovementROESSLER-CHADWICK FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGE — $2,500 · EducationJAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationLittle Tokyo Nutrition Services — $7,000 · Food & NutritionJUSTSOFTBALL FOUNDATION CORP — $2,500 · Recreation & SportsTORRANCE GIRLS SOFTBALL LEAGUE INC — $500 · Recreation & SportsKEY BISCAYNE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyNIKKEI SENIOR GARDENS — $1,750 · Housing & Shelter
Other$275,450Arts & Culture$150,600Community Improvement$27,000Education$8,500Food & Nutrition$7,000Recreation & Sports$3,000Philanthropy$2,500Housing & Shelter$1,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM — $73,950 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $45,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budget1979 LEGACY CORP — $24,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetGRATEFUL CRANE ENSEMBLE INC — $22,150 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetLittle Tokyo Nutrition Services — $7,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetROESSLER-CHADWICK FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEY BISCAYNE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClaremont McKenna College — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTSOFTBALL FOUNDATION CORP — $2,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetNIKKEI SENIOR GARDENS — $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINATOWN FRESNO FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLITTLE TOKYO COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPALOS VERDES PENINSULA GIRLS SOFTBALL LEAGUE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTORRANCE GIRLS SOFTBALL LEAGUE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ja Community Foundati…California Community …Hiro Watanabe Foundat…Japanese Home for the…Keiro ServicesSempra FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ja Community FoundationCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ja Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Hiro Watanabe Foundation · Japanese Home for the Aged · Keiro Services · Sempra Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Df Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s 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 · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Df Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Df 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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