· Private foundation
Honda USA Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k16 grants · $467k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIGHT SAVERS AMERICA INC | $100,000 |
| PROVIDENCE TRINITYCARE HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CABRILLO MARINE AQUARIUM | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR YOUTH SAFETY | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC | $100,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF SAN GORGONIO COUNCIL | $100,000 |
| OHIO HISPANIC COALITION | $100,000 |
| JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION | $95,000 |
| LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC | $75,000 |
| MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $70,000 |
| MCLEOD MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $69,240 |
| TRIANGLE BIKEWORKS | $60,362 |
| TREEPEOPLE | $59,326 |
| CHOC FOUNDATION | $50,350 |
| ALTASEA AT THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Honda USA Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 38% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
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
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
- ATAdvancement Through Opportunity & Knowledge Inc4× · 2017–2022 · $340k · revenue +168%
- LALOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC5× · 2017–2025 · $330k · revenue +45%
- BBBRIDGE BUILDERS FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $295k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIOone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +14%
- PTPROVIDENCE TRINITYCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k
- FHFLYING HORSE FARMSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +34%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
In fiscal year 2025, the agency operated an americorps maker fellowship, placing 7 americorps vista members at 6 different education focused organizations in ca, ma, and ny. americorps members worked on capacity building projects to expand…
Out teach's mission is to inspire and prepare today's elementary students to explore the wonders of science and become tomorrow's innovators. out teach works to ensure that all studentsregardless of race, zip code, or access to…
The mission of trillium academy is to break away from conventional schooling and celebrate the incredible capabilities of twice-exceptional (2e) students, providing them with the learning environment they need to discover and develop their…
The center for early education, a socio-economically and culturally diverse independent school for children, toddlers through grade six, strives to graduate students who are joyful, resilient, lifelong learners. the center embraces a…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College Mentors for Kids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mate Inspiration for Innovation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
159 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. 159 of the 208 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Advancement Through Opportunity & Knowledge Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE BUILDERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SAN GORGONIO COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ROCKING THE BOAT INC ↗
- Who funds TWO BIT CIRCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association ↗
- Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE RESOURCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READING ASSIST INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BIOBUS INC ↗
- Who funds ALTASEA AT THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Education Outside ↗
- Who funds GROWINGGREAT ↗
- Who funds Chicago Architecture Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds FLYING HORSE FARMS ↗
- Who funds SAFE KIDS WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR YOUTH SAFETY ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISPANIC COALITION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds THINKFIRST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE TRINITYCARE HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEC STUYVESANT COVE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK THE STREET WALL STREET ↗
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.
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
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 Honda USA 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.
- Reading Assist Institute — 99% of income from government
- National Marine Sanctuary Foundation — 88% of income from government
- Friends of the Underline Inc — 66% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Adaptive Riding Institute Dba Horses of Hope Oregon — 5% of income from government
- Center for Creative Education — 2% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
- Safe Kids Worldwide — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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