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Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California

- promote business, mutual understading, and goodwill between japan and the united states.

$15k
Granted FY2021
7
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$10kEnvironment$10kRecreation & Sports$10kInternational$4kArts & Culture$2kCommunity Improvement$2kPhilanthropy$1kHuman Services$200
02FY2021 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $8,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SAN FRANCISCO OSAKA SISTER CITY ASSOC$500
APA HERITAGE FOUNDATION$500
KIMOCHI INC$200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%KIMOCHI INC: $200 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Japantown Cultural Society
Education
2
National Japanese American Historical Society Inc

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…

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3
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
4
Japanese Community Youth Council

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…

Human Services
5
Nihonmachi Merchants Association

Promote San Francisco's Japantown

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6
Japan America Society of So California

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…

International
7
Japanese American Museum of San Jose

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Nikkei Matsuri Foundation Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Friends of the Japanese House and Garden

Jasgp inspires mutual curiosity, understanding, and collaboration between japan and the philadelphia region.

Arts & Culture
10
Japanese Friendship Garden and Museum of San Diego Inc

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,…

Environment
11
Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Chicago

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…

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12
Asian Pacific Islander Capitol Assn

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,…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Japanese Cultural and Community Center; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN FRANCISCO JAPANESE SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO JAPANESE SCHOOLSAN FRANCISCO OSAKA SISTER CITY ASSOC: $500 · OtherSacramento Tree Foundation: $10,000 · EnvironmentSacramento Tree FoundationSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCEJAPANESE CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,800 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE CU…JAPANTOWN COMMUNITY CONGRESS OF SAN JOSE: $1,500 · Arts & CultureJAPANTOWN C…APA HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $500 · Arts & CultureAPA HERITAG…THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3,000 · InternationalTHE SAN FRANCISCO JAPANTOWN FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyKIMOCHI INC: $200 · Human Services
Other$10,500Environment$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Arts & Culture$3,800International$3,000Philanthropy$1,000Human Services$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN FRANCISCO JAPANESE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSacramento Tree Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JAPAN SOCIETY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJAPANESE CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJAPANTOWN COMMUNITY CONGRESS OF SAN JOSE: $1,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO JAPANTOWN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAPA HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKIMOCHI INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $26k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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