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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 FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MHuman Services$917kCommunity Improvement$207kFood & Nutrition$145kHousing & Shelter$121kCivil Rights$91kReligion$83kCrime & Legal$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $290k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$50,000
TOPAZ MUSEUM$25,000
J-SEI INC$25,000
JAPANESE AMERICAN MEMORIAL PILGRIMAGES$25,000
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,000
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA NIKKEI FOUNDATION$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
JAN KEN PO GAKKO$15,000
GENRYU ARTS$15,000
NIKKEI HERITAGE ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON$15,000
COLLABORATIVE CATALOGING JAPAN$15,000
CJAHS$15,000
SAN DIEGO CHAPTER JACL$12,500
ASIAN CULTURAL EXPERIENCE OF SALINAS$12,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $695k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JB LINE INC: $5k → 8%J-SEI INC: $25k → 12%CENTRAL CALIFORNIA NIKKEI FOUNDATION DBA VINTAGE GARDENS ASSISTED LIVING CO: $34k → 19%JB LINE INC: $5k → 8%EDEN TOWNSHIP JAPANESE COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $35k → 10%J-SEI INC: $10k → 12%CENTRAL CALIFORNIA NIKKEI FOUNDATION: $32k → 19%YU-AI KAI: $27k → 8%ORANGE COUNTY JAPANESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%EDEN TOWNSHIP JAPANESE COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 10%CENTRAL CALIFORNIA NIKKEI FOUNDATION: $23k → 19%YU-AI KAI: $25k → 8%EDEN TOWNSHIP JAPANESE COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 10%CENTRAL CALIFORNIA NIKKEI FOUNDATION: $20k → 19%YU-AI KAI: $24k → 8%CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS: $5k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%CENTRAL CALIFORNIA NIKKEI FOUNDATION: $20k → 19%YU-AI KAI: $20k → 8%CENTRAL CALIFORNIA NIKKEI FOUNDATION DBA VINTAGE GARDENS ASSISTED LIVING CO: $15k → 19%YU-AI KAI: $18k → 8%J-SEI INC: $25k → 10%YU-AI KAI: $15k → 8%J-SEI INC: $25k → 10%J-SEI INC: $25k → 10%KIMOCHI INC: $25k → 10%J-SEI INC: $23k → 10%J-SEI INC: $20k → 10%KIMOCHI INC: $23k → 10%J-SEI INC: $15k → 10%KIMOCHI INC: $20k → 10%KIMOCHI INC: $20k → 10%KIMOCHI INC: $15k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 42 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
68

Total granted

$2.1M
$926k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+23%

Still filing today

74%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $199k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • CC
    CENTRAL CALIFORNIA NIKKEI FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +36%
  • YK
    YU-AI KAI JAPANTOWN COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER
    6× · 2017–2023 · $129k · revenue +75%
  • NJ
    National Japanese American Historical Society Inc
    5× · 2017–2023 · $125k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • LT
    Little Tokyo Nutrition Services
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -15%
  • SJ
    San Jose Taiko Group Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +23%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +88%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Japantown Cultural Society
Education
2
Tessaku

To provide historical and educational content about the Japanese American WWII incarceration as a public service and resource

Arts & Culture
3
Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress

To initiate and participate in activities that will promote the history, culture and social welfare of the japanese american community in southern california.this includes education about the world war ii incarceration of japanese american.

Unclassified
4
Japanese American Cultural Center of Vista

To promote and foster the understanding and appreciation of japanese and japanese american art, history, and culture. to preserve and disseminate inforation about the japanese american way of life to promote the study of the japanesese…

Arts & Culture
5
Chicago Japanese American Historical Society

Preserve and interpret the history of the Japanese American community in Chicago; Educate the general public as to that history; and Develop and display museum exhibits featuring Japanese American history with an emphasis on Chicago. The…

Arts & Culture
6
Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation

APIAHIP is the only national organization dedicated to protecting historic places and cultural resources significant to Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

Arts & Culture
7
Nisei Week Foundation Inc

To educate the public on japanese and japanese-american history and culture.

Arts & Culture
8
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
9
Japanese American Citizens League San Jose Chapter

JACL San Jose chapter supports the preservation efforts of Issei Memorial Building as a birthplace of the Japanese American community here in San Jose by continuing to provide for communities a place to meet and work for the community &…

Community Improvement
10
Us-Japan Research Institute Suite 801
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11
Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival Committee

Cultural education.

Recreation & Sports
12
Api Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center

Oakland Asian Cultural Center builds vibrant communities through Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) arts and cultural programs that foster intergenerational and cross-cultural dialogue, cultural identity, collaborations, and social…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Japanese Community Pioneer and the most unlike its peers is Hayward Area Historical Society. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History MuseumsCommunity FoundationsMilitary Veterans SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Senior Support ServicesChristian Youth CampsCommunity Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr13%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%3%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%30%35–55yr13%20%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/82
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,896

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.

04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 124 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
45/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

National Japanese American Historical Society Inc — $125,000 · OtherNational Japanese American Historical Society …JAPANESE COMMUNITY PIONEER — $53,100 · OtherLong Beach Japanese Cultural Center — $53,076 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $52,500 · OtherMEDIA BRIDGES INC (GUIDESTAR) — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · Other+63 more — $951,080 · Other+63 moreEAST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY JAPANESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $112,500 · Arts & CultureEAST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY JAPANE…Tanforan Assembly Center Memorial Committee — $60,000 · Arts & CultureTanforan Assembly Center Memor…JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM — $45,380 · Arts & CultureJapanese American Memorial Pilgrimages — $45,000 · Arts & CultureGO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $40,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE — $35,500 · Arts & CultureSan Jose Taiko Group Inc — $35,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Arts & CultureGRATEFUL CRANE ENSEMBLE INC — $33,226 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+27 more — $409,300 · Arts & Culture+27 moreJ-SEI INC — $167,500 · Human ServicesJ-SEI INCCENTRAL CALIFORNIA NIKKEI FOUNDATION — $142,500 · Human ServicesCENTRAL CALIFORNIA NIKKE…YU-AI KAI JAPANTOWN COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER — $128,535 · Human ServicesYU-AI KAI JAPANTOWN COMM…KIMOCHI INC — $102,500 · Human ServicesKIMOCHI INCEden Township Japanese Community Center — $84,900 · Human ServicesEden Township Japanese C…TIDES CENTER — $45,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER+3 more — $24,000 · Human ServicesLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $112,500 · Housing & ShelterKOKORO ASSISTED LIVING INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterSakura Foundation — $12,000 · Housing & ShelterMeals on Wheels by ACC — $83,580 · Food & NutritionLittle Tokyo Nutrition Services — $50,000 · Food & NutritionFRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE — $36,000 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS — $15,000 · EducationASIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SACRAMENTO VALLEY INC DBA ACC SENIOR SERVICES — $34,626 · HealthALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES — $10,472 · Health
Other$1,334,756Arts & Culture$880,906Human Services$694,935Housing & Shelter$139,500Food & Nutrition$133,580Education$51,000Health$45,098

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJ-SEI INC — $167,500 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA NIKKEI FOUNDATION — $142,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetYU-AI KAI JAPANTOWN COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER — $128,535 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetNational Japanese American Historical Society Inc — $125,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $112,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEAST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY JAPANESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $112,500 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetKIMOCHI INC — $102,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetEden Township Japanese Community Center — $84,900 over 3y, 39% of budgetMeals on Wheels by ACC — $83,580 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTanforan Assembly Center Memorial Committee — $60,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetJAPANESE COMMUNITY PIONEER — $53,100 over 5y, 38% of budgetLong Beach Japanese Cultural Center — $53,076 over 4y, 61% of budgetLittle Tokyo Nutrition Services — $50,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM — $45,380 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJapanese American Memorial Pilgrimages — $45,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetSAN DIEGO CHAPTER JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE INC — $42,500 over 3y, 54% of budgetGO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $40,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetFRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE — $36,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE — $35,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetSan Jose Taiko Group Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SACRAMENTO VALLEY INC DBA ACC SENIOR SERVICES — $34,626 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGRATEFUL CRANE ENSEMBLE INC — $33,226 over 4y, 11% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTOPAZ MUSEUM — $28,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetKIZUNA LITTLE TOKYO INC — $26,959 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSan Joaquin County Historical Society — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNikkei Heritage Association of Washington — $25,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFull Spectrum Features NFP — $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN RIVER CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMEDIA BRIDGES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetWING LUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLITTLE TOKYO COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC — $25,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCRYSTAL CITY PILGRIMAGE COMMITTEE — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNICHI BEI FOUNDATION — $24,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNISEI VETERANS MEMORIAL CENTER — $23,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF OREGON — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDENSHO — $19,300 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAKURA KAI INC — $18,963 over 3y, 27% of budgetPOSTON COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC — $17,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFRESNO ART MUSEUM — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKOKORO ASSISTED LIVING INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHAYWARD AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCOLLABORATIVE CATALOGING JAPAN — $15,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Sur Land Trust — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

California HumanitiesJapanese Home for the…Keiro ServicesThe California Wellne…Asian Pacific FundGofundmeorgThe Henri & Tomoye Ta…Marin Community Found…Kinjiro and Eiko Mori…Oyama Family Foundati…The San Francisco Jap…Df Foundation
California HumanitiesCA26.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ja Community 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Japanese American Museum of Oregon — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ja Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ja Community 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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