· Public charity
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JACL-SAN JOSE CHAPTER | $8,000 |
| JACL-TWIN CITIES CHAPTER | $7,650 |
| JACL-WISCONSIN CHAPTER | $5,400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 32% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 31% of Japanese American Citizens League’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against -12% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JAJAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE3× · 2017–2019 · $25k
- JAJAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE4× · 2017–2020 · $24k
- JAJAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE3× · 2018–2020 · $17k
Funded once
- DDENSHOone grant, 2023 · $122k · revenue -34%
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue -12%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +31%
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.
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.
Public education
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- 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 ↗
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- Who funds JAPANESE AMER CITIZENS LEAGUE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST DISTRICT COUNCIL ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Japanese American Citizens League funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Japanese American Citizens League. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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