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Japanese American Citizens League
The JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE is a national organization whose ongoing mission is to secure and maintain the civil rights of japanese americans and all others who are victimized by injustice and bigotry.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $21,050 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $131,714 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $110,664 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JACL-SAN JOSE CHAPTER | $8,000 |
| JACL-TWIN CITIES CHAPTER | $7,650 |
| JACL-WISCONSIN CHAPTER | $5,400 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 32% of your 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
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 31% of Japanese American Citizens League’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.
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 +94% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- JAJAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE3× · 2017–2019 · $25k
- JAJAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE4× · 2017–2020 · $24k
- JAJAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE3× · 2017–2019 · $17k
Funded once
- DDENSHOone grant, 2023 · $122k · revenue -50%
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue -12%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · 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 Japanese American Citizens League is a national organization whose ongoing mission is to secure and maintain the civil rights of Japanese Americans and all others who are victimized by injustice and bigotry. The leaders and members of…
The mission of the Portland chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) is to celebrate our Japanese American culture and use lessons from our unique American experience to promote and protect human and civil rights for all.
Sonoma County Chapter of the Jaapanese American Citizens League is committed to the protection and advancement of civil rights and community development for Japanese Americans and all others who are victimized by injustice and bigotry.
Public education
To foster american democracy,promote active participation in civic and national life, provide an environment conducive to the development of the individual, encourage the preservation of japanese american heritage, secure justice and equal…
To provide historical and educational content about the Japanese American WWII incarceration as a public service and resource
The mission of the new mexico japanese american citizens league is to promote, protect, and fight for the civil and human rights of all people in and outside of new mexico. the nmjacl recognizes the importance of education and, following…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Chapter Japanese American Citizens League Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 23 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 DENSHO ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES CHAPTER JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEA ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Japanese American Citizens League San Jose Chapter ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CHAPTER JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon Nisei Veterans co Claude Larouche ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Japanese American Citizens League Seattle Chapter ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE - PUYALLUP VALLEY ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMER CITIZENS LEAGUE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST DISTRICT COUNCIL ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Japanese American Citizens League 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.
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.