· Private foundation
Jtb Cultural Exchange Corporation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $24k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HONOLULU FESTIVAL FOUNDATION | $180,000 |
| US JAPAN COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| JAPANESE FOOD CULTURE ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| JAPAN SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| JAPANESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF CHICAGO INC | $2,000 |
| JTB GOODWILL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HONOLULU JAPANESE JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $2,000 |
| JCC FUND | $2,000 |
| JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII | $2,000 |
| HAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| HONPA HONGWANJI MISSION OF HAWAII | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- JFJAPANESE FOOD CULTURE ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +200%
- UJUS- JAPAN COUNCIL8× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +242%
- JCJAPANESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF CHICAGO9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- JSJAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF HOUSTONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +76%
- LALOS ANGELES HOMPA HONGWANJI BUDDIST TEMPLEone grant, 2017 · $2k
- JDJAPAN DAY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +88%
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.
Introduce the public to and educate the public on japanese culture
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…
To promote understanding and friendships between the people of japan and the united states. this mission is carried out through various educational programs, seminars, and special projects.
To promote goodwill between the united states and japan, cultural exchange, education, and to encourage appreciation of the cultural heritage of various japanese prefectures in the kansai region of japan.
The school provides instruction to students who are of age to attend the compulsory education system of japan and to students who desire to learn the japanese language compatible with the standard educational curricula in japan; to enable…
Encouragement of relations between japanese and americans by means of conferences, forums, meetings, publications, athletics, and cultural means.
JASM provides a place where both individuals and businesses are able to engage in cultural activities, meet others with an interest in Japan, form new business relationships, learn, and build mutual respect between Japan and America. Our…
Cultural education.
Japan cultural exchange of new york is an organization for deepening understanding of and appreciation for japanese and american cultures. we offer services to japanese children who reside in the tri-state area and any non-japanese…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii and the most unlike its peers is Northeast Council of Teachers of Japanese Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 41 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 HONOLULU FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE FOOD CULTURE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds US- JAPAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JTB GOODWILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAPAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JCC FUND ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU JAPANESE JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds NISHIYAMATO INC DBA NISHIYAMATO ACADEMY OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds The Japan American Society of NW Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds Northeast Council of Teachers of Japanese Ltd ↗
- Who funds Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth ↗
- Who funds JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds DALLAS JAPANESE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAKURA MATSURI INC ↗
- Who funds KEIRO NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds JAPAN DAY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF JAPANESE INC ↗
- Who funds Alliance of Local Service Organizations ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO HOSHUKO INC ↗
- Who funds OHANA ARTS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Orix Stewardship Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Sumitomo Corporation of Americas Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jtb Cultural Exchange Corporation 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Jtb Cultural Exchange Corporation?
Find your warmest path to Jtb Cultural Exchange Corporation 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.