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Izumi Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2.3M
Granted FY2020
23
Grants FY2020
10
States reached
$263k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

International$3.5MHealth$1.6MFood & Nutrition$580kCommunity Improvement$262kPhilanthropy$210kHousing & Shelter$5kHuman Services$5k
02FY2020 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $1,751,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,255,265 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $504,265 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $114k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+1 grant · $263k
$20,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$73M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PIVOT WORKS INC$12,000
FOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE & EDUCATION$12,000
THE CARTER CENTER$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL (FORMERLY ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION): $100k → 8%ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION (DBA HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL): $8k → 8%WEEMA INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 8%WEEMA INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 8%WEEMA INTERNATIONAL INC: $10k → 8%WEEMA INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%STBONFACE HAITI FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
MI
NY
MA
CA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
GA
FL

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.

Sub-Saharan Africa$253k · 53% · 5 grants

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).

Central America and the Caribbean$117k · 24% · 1 grant

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

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$111k · 23% · 1 grant

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

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 45% of Izumi Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 47% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 8%.

Izumi Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 70% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 22 repeat orgs$731k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
3

Total granted

$4.8M
$550k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+378%

Still filing today

91%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    THE CARTER CENTER INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $760k · revenue +38%
  • LM
    LAST MILE HEALTH
    2× · 2018–2020 · $260k · revenue +23%
  • HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $258k · revenue +168%

Funded once

  • SI
    SIGHTSAVERS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue -19%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • PH
    PROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +378%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

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,…

Health
2
MedGlobal Inc

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…

Health
3
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
4
Health Builders International

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…

International
5
HDIInc

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.

International
6
Intrahealth International Inc

Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.

Health
7
Project Orbis International Inc

Orbis builds strong and sustainable eye care systems globally that put treatment and prevention within reach

International
8
Bio Ventures for Global Health

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…

Health
9
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

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…

International
10
Pathfinder International

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…

International
11
Innovating Health International Inc

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…

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12
Konbit Sante Cap Haitien Health

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.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Care 2 Communities Fka Containers to Clinics Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
16/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CARTER CENTER INC: $760,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INCSANERGY INC: $290,000 · InternationalSANERGY INCHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $258,000 · InternationalHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INCLwala Community Alliance: $235,000 · InternationalLwala Community AllianceFOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE AND EDUC: $212,000 · InternationalFOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE AND EDUCGARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL: $165,000 · InternationalGARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONALPIVOT WORKS INC: $112,000 · InternationalGlobal Healing: $108,000 · InternationalPROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC: $100,000 · InternationalCAROLINA FOR KIBERA INC: $85,000 · International+1 more: $20,000 · InternationalSIGHTSAVERS INC: $300,000 · HealthSIGHTSAVERS INCLAST MILE HEALTH: $260,000 · HealthLAST MILE HEALTHMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $161,000 · HealthMASS GENERAL BRIGH…AMANI GLOBAL WORKS: $155,000 · HealthAMANI GLOBAL WORKSTIP Global Health: $135,000 · HealthTIP Global HealthHEALTH & DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL: $385,000 · OtherHEALTH & DEVELOPMEN…KOMO LEARNING CENTRES: $180,000 · OtherKOMO LEARNING CENTR…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $150,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHA…CLINICA VERDE: $137,000 · OtherCLINICA VERDEMANO A MANO INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS: $160,000 · OtherMANO A MANO INTERNA…CARE 2 COMMUNITIES FKA CONTAINERS TO CLINICS INC: $65,000 · OtherCARE 2 COMMUNITIES …SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $363,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUN…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $300,000 · EducationPresident and F…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $175,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UN…WEEMA INTERNATIONAL INC: $215,000 · Human ServicesST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $208,000 · Human ServicesMALI HEALTH ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $262,000 · Community ImprovementLifebox Foundation Inc: $210,000 · Philanthropy
International$2,345,000Health$1,011,000Other$1,077,000Education$838,000Human Services$423,000Community Improvement$262,000Philanthropy$210,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $760,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $363,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSIGHTSAVERS INC: $300,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANERGY INC: $290,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetMALI HEALTH ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $262,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetLAST MILE HEALTH: $260,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $258,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLwala Community Alliance: $235,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetWEEMA INTERNATIONAL INC: $215,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE AND EDUC: $212,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetLifebox Foundation Inc: $210,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $208,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL: $165,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $161,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANO A MANO INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS: $160,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetAMANI GLOBAL WORKS: $155,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetCLINICA VERDE: $137,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTIP Global Health: $135,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetPIVOT WORKS INC: $112,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGlobal Healing: $108,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetPROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCAROLINA FOR KIBERA INC: $85,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetCARE 2 COMMUNITIES FKA CONTAINERS TO CLINICS INC: $65,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Conservation Food and…Segal Family Foundati…Mulago FoundationDovetail Impact Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Sall Family FoundationArie and Ida Crown Me…Boston Foundation IncGlobalgiving Foundati…Child Relief Internat…Imago Dei Fund
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA22.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Izumi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Izumi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Izumi Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Izumi 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home