California · Private foundation
Ja Community 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.
- $386k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 73%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 73% of the organizations Ja Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $386k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $346k | 73% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $400k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $346k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $436k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $361k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $350k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $402k | 63% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| J-Sei Inc | $167,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Central California Nikkei Foundation | $142,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Yu-Ai Kai Japantown Community Senior Center | $128,535 | 6 | 2% |
| National Japanese American Historical Society Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Ltsc Community Development Corporation | $112,500 | 4 | 0% |
| East San Gabriel Valley Japanese Community Center Inc | $112,500 | 6 | 8% |
| Kimochi Inc | $102,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Eden Township Japanese Community Center | $84,900 | 3 | 39% |
| Meals on Wheels by ACC | $83,580 | 5 | 0% |
| Tanforan Assembly Center Memorial Committee | $60,000 | 4 | 26% |
Show all 81 grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($737k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ja Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: California Humanities · Japanese Home for the Aged · Keiro Services · The California Wellness Foundation · Asian Pacific Fund · Gofundmeorg · The Henri & Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Kinjiro and Eiko Moriguchi Fund · Oyama Family Foundation · The San Francisco Japantown Foundation · Df Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ja Community Foundation
- How much does Ja Community Foundation give?
- Ja Community Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $386,120 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ja Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Human Services (28%), Community Improvement (6%).
- Who are Ja Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: J-Sei Inc ($168k), Central California Nikkei Foundation ($143k), Yu-Ai Kai Japantown Community Senior Center ($129k).
- Does Ja Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ja Community Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ja Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Humanities, Japanese Home for the Aged, Keiro Services.
- Where is Ja Community Foundation based?
- Ja Community Foundation is based in CA.
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