· Public charity
Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California
- promote business, mutual understading, and goodwill between japan and the united states.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $8,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,000 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 |
|---|---|
| JAPAN SOCIETY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $3,000 |
| JAPANESE CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $1,800 |
| JAPANTOWN COMMUNITY CONGRESS OF SAN JOSE | $1,500 |
| THE SAN FRANCISCO JAPANTOWN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| APA HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| SAN FRANCISCO OSAKA SISTER CITY ASSOC | $500 |
| KIMOCHI INC | $200 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc. (NJAHS) charitable nonprofit organization dedicated to the collection, preservation, authentic interpretation, and sharing of historical information of the Japanese American…
The mission of jcyc is to cultivate and enrich the lives of children and youth from diverse, multicultural communities throughout san francisco and beyond. rooted in the japanese american community, jcyc seeks to: provide a comprehensive…
Promote San Francisco's Japantown
The japan america society of southern california works to (1) promote among the american people a more accurate knowledge of the people of japan, their aims, customs, ideals, arts and sciences, industries, economic conditions, and…
The mission of the japanese american museum of san jose is to collect, preserve, and share the japanese american experience of the greater bay area.
Our mission is to perpetuate the japanese american experiences, cultural customs, and traditions. we do this in part by hosting the annual nikkei matsuri festival in san jose japantown, providing a forum for sharing cultural exhibits and…
Jasgp inspires mutual curiosity, understanding, and collaboration between japan and the philadelphia region.
Japanese friendship garden of san diego is a place for visitors to enjoy a japanese style garden. we are dedicated to promoting, presenting and preserving the japanese heritage through educational programs such as arts, culture,…
The mission of the jccc is to deepen mutual understanding and improve relations between japanese and u.s. businesses through a wide variety of cultural, educational, and charitable programs. to meet its mission, the jccc organizes a series…
The Asian Pacific Islander Capitol Association (APICA) is a non-partisan, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization comprised of legislative staffers, advocates, and other API professionals based in the State Capitol community of Sacramento,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Japanese Cultural and Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Apa Heritage Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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.
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- Who funds THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JAPANTOWN COMMUNITY CONGRESS OF SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO JAPANTOWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APA HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIMOCHI INC ↗
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.
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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 Chamber of Commerce of Northern California 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.
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