· Public charity
Izumi Foundation
To address the root causes of human suffering, to increase the compassion and caring amoung all human beings, and to promote a society that respects all living things.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $1,751,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,255,265 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $504,265 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $114k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $263k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND | $263,000 |
| HEALTH & DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL | $195,000 |
| MALI HEALTH | $162,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $161,000 |
| LAST MILE HEALTH | $160,000 |
| MANO A MANO INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS | $155,000 |
| HIMALAYAN CARACT PROJECT | $143,000 |
| LIFEBOX | $110,000 |
| KOMO LEARNING CENTERS | $105,000 |
| CLINICA VERDE | $87,000 |
| AMANI GLOBAL WORKS | $80,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $20,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE & EDUCATION | $12,000 |
| PIVOT WORKS INC | $12,000 |
| CAROLINA FOR KIBERA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $423k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
Grants abroad, by region — $481k on the FY2020 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: TO INTEGRATE AND SCALE UP MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH SERVICES BY CHWS TO IMPROVE MOTHER AND CHILD OUTCOMES IN THE NAKASEKE DISTRICT, UGANDA; SUPPLIES AND TRAINING FOR HEALTH WORKERS; COMMUNITY SENSITIZATION FOR COVID-19; INTEGRATED COVID CARE/PREVENTION INTO CHW PROGRAMS (ESPECIALLY MCH PROGRAMS) COMMUNITY COVID EDUCATION · TO ACCELERATE A SUSTAINABLE REDUCTION OF MATERNAL AND NEONATAL MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY IN LUWERO DISTRICT, UGANDA; COMMUNITY EDUCATION, TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND SUPPLIES TO CLINIC NETWORKS; WELLSPRING FUNDING WILL BE USED TO SUPPORT ACODEV'S DEVELOPMENT PROCESS OF THEIR NEW STRATEGIC PLAN BY SUPPORTING A SERIES OF ACTIVITIES THAT WILL RESULT IN THE FINAL PRODUCT OF SP 2021-2026. · TO STRENGTHEN SAFARI DOCTORS YOUTH HEALTH AMBASSADOR (YHA) PROGRAM AND INCREASE ITS SUSTAINABILITY, TO PROMOTE YOUTH INCLUSION IN KENYA'S EFFORTS TO ATTAIN UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE; WORKING TO DISTRIBUTE PPE, HOLDING TRAININGS WITH MEDIAL STAFF, AND CONDUCTING COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND OUTREACH;ENHANCED COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND EDUCATION FOR COVID-19 PREVENTION, YOUTH COIVD MESSAGING, PPE DISTRIBUTION; WELLSPRING FUNDING WILL BE USED TO SUPPORT THE SCALING OF OUR MEDICAL OUTREACH BY ENABLING US TO PROCURE MEDICINES TO SUPPLY SIX ADDITIONAL VILLAGES FOR AT LEAST FIVE MONTHS (AT A COST OF $1,000 PER MONTH).
Stated purpose: TO PROVIDE TARGETED EDUCATION AND INTERVENTIONS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO A REDUCTION OF MALNUTRITION IN CHILDREN UNDER FIVE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SOLOL; SUPPORT FOR MALNUTRITION, FOOD INSECURITY, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS IN MAYAN LANGUAGES; INFECTION CONTROL AT HOSPITAL, PPE FOR STAFF AND COMMUNITY, COMMUNITY COVID PREVENTION PROGRAMS AND EDUCATION; COVID-19 MEDICAL CARE FOR FAMILIES WHO CAN NOT PAY INCLUDING TRANSPORTATION TO FACILITY; NUTRITION ASSISTANCE FOR IDENTIFIED FAMILIES WITH MALNOURISHED CHILDREN; PPE AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
Stated purpose: TO REDUCE THE MATERNAL AND INFANT MORTALITY RATE IN WAKISO DISTRICT BY IMPROVING ACCESS TO MCH AND SRH SERVICES AMONG VULNERABLE WOMEN AND YOUTH; TRAINING AND PREPARATION AT NURTURE AFRICA CLINIC, OVERALL EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS ACTIVITIES; ONGOING PREVENTION MEASURES FOR BOTH STAFF AND PATIENTS AT NURTURE AFRICA CLINIC (PPE AND FACILITY ADJUSTMENTS), COMMUNITY EDUCATION OUTREACH, ONGOING COVID-19 PREVENTION MESSAGING
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 45% of Izumi 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, 47% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 8% — 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.
22 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k 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
- TCTHE CARTER CENTER INC3× · 2017–2020 · $760k · revenue +38%
- LMLAST MILE HEALTH2× · 2018–2020 · $260k · revenue +23%
HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC2× · 2018–2020 · $258k · revenue +168%
Funded once
- SISIGHTSAVERS INCone grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue -19%
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2017 · $150k
- PHPROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +131%
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.
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…
MedGlobal is a humanitarian non-governmental organization working to serve vulnerable communities around the world by providing innovative, free, and sustainable healthcare. Our health services support refugees, displaced persons, and…
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
Health Builders is a non-profit organization registered in the United States of America and in Rwanda. Health Builders strengthens health center management, improves clinical care and builds health care facilities for the rural communities…
HDI`s mission is to advance world public health and human dignity, especially the health and socioeconomic situation of under-served populations which more others are significantly constrained by preventable, degrading disease.
Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.
Orbis builds strong and sustainable eye care systems globally that put treatment and prevention within reach
BVGH drives sustainable, market-informed solutions to improve access to quality healthcare in low- and middle-income countries. BVGH builds cross-sector partnerships that align industry, government, and local health-system priorities to…
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
Innovating health international (ihi) is a non-profit dedicated to treating chronic diseases and addressing women's health issues in haiti and malawi. what we do- working with local partners, we aim to increase access to treatment and…
Our mission is to support the development of a sustainable health system to meet the needs of the Cap-Haitien community in Haiti with maximum local direction and support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Care 2 Communities Fka Containers to Clinics Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clinica Verde. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 18 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 — 3% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 29 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
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 THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SIGHTSAVERS INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds SANERGY INC ↗
- Who funds MALI HEALTH ORGANIZING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LAST MILE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Lwala Community Alliance ↗
- Who funds WEEMA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE AND EDUC ↗
- Who funds Lifebox Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KOMO LEARNING CENTRES ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MANO A MANO INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds AMANI GLOBAL WORKS ↗
- Who funds CLINICA VERDE ↗
- Who funds TIP Global Health ↗
- Who funds PIVOT WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Global Healing ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA FOR KIBERA INC ↗
- Who funds CARE 2 COMMUNITIES FKA CONTAINERS TO CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Conservation Food and Health Foundation Inc C/O Gma Foundations · Segal Family Foundation Inc · Mulago Foundation · Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation) · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Sall Family Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Boston Foundation Inc · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Child Relief International Foundation · Imago Dei Fund
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 Izumi 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% 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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