California · Private foundation
Honda USA Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2026
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $65,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 42
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 19
- Total assets, FY2026
- $81M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 47% of the organizations Honda USA Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $977k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 46 | $3.0M | 74% |
| FY2025 | 34 | $1.9M | 47% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $1.3M | 74% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $2.4M | 98% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $1.5M | 62% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $1.7M | 73% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $1.7M | 66% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $1.2M | 73% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advancement Through Opportunity & Knowledge Inc | $340,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund Inc | $330,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Bridge Builders Foundation Inc | $295,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Sight Savers of America Inc | $260,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science | $245,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Council | $200,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Two Bit Circus Foundation | $200,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Rocking the Boat Inc | $200,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Flying Horse Farms | $190,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Mitchell's Place Inc | $185,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 188 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Honda USA Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 146 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Green Foundation · Columbus Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Pwc Foundation Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Orange County Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Honda USA Foundation
- How much does Honda USA Foundation give?
- Honda USA Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $2,991,043 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 42 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Honda USA Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (27%), Youth Development (17%), Health (16%).
- Who are Honda USA Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Advancement Through Opportunity & Knowledge Inc ($340k), Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund Inc ($330k), Bridge Builders Foundation Inc ($295k).
- Does Honda USA Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Honda USA Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Honda USA Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, California Community Foundation, The Green Foundation.
- Where is Honda USA Foundation based?
- Honda USA Foundation is based in CA.
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