· Private foundation
Nippon Express Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $15,000 |
| Japan Day Inc | $10,000 |
| South Carolina Charities Inc | $7,500 |
| The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Chicago | $6,000 |
| JCCC Foundation | $2,000 |
| San Antonio Japanese Companies Association SAJCA | $1,500 |
| Middle Tennessee Japan Society | $1,400 |
| The Japanese Edicational Institute of New York | $1,050 |
| The Japanese Supplementary School in Huntsville Inc | $1,000 |
| Asahi Gakuen | $500 |
| Indiana Japanese Language School | $500 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 72% of your 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO5× · 2021–2025 · $56k · revenue +43%
- JDJAPAN DAY INC4× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +88%
- JCJAPANESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF CHICAGO4× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- JLJAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +3%
- TJTohkon Judo Academy Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +41%
- JSJAPAN SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +52%
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 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…
Japanese children's society, established in 1979, is a non-profit institution providing education for japanese speaking children, preschool through high school, in both english and japanese at new york metropolitan area.
Our mission is to nurture and develop children who:(1) understand the importance of language and command a rich japanese vocabulary.(2)respect the personalities and culture of others and actively participate in the fabric of an…
1.to facilitate adjustment to japanese schools and society through classes offered in the japanese language.2.to enhance each student's identity and to nurture a sense of commonality through exposure to japanese points of view, ideas, and…
The organization provides instruction in japanese language, history, and culture. it also promotes public awareness and understanding of japan and its culture through language study. enrollment is approximately 100 pupils ranging from…
Providing instructional and educational programs in japanese language and culture.
Providing mathematics, japanese language, history, sciences, social sciences, physics, and biology education to elementary and secondary school students in japanese. the school operates every saturday . the school is open to anyone who can…
The purpose of japanese language unified system is to teach japanese language and impart knowledge of japanese culture under the principal of the cooperative spirit in the education of the students and in the administration of the school.…
Southeast japanese school is committed to providing instructions in the japanese language and culture. our goal is to enable students to successfully function in a japanese-speaking environment and to foster an appreciation of the japanese…
To teach students about the language and culture of japan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jccc Foundation and the most unlike its peers is South Carolina Charities Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 32 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 THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JAPAN DAY INC ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE JAPANESE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HIGASHI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIPPON CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE TENNESSEE JAPAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO JAPANESE COMPANIES ASSOC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JCCC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tohkon Judo Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds JAPAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Japanese Language School Inc ↗
- Who funds ASAHI GAKUEN ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds OYA NO KAI INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI HOSHUKO INC ↗
- Who funds WHARTON GRADUATE ASSOCIATION ↗
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 Nippon Express Foundation Inc 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.
- Boston Higashi School Inc — 5% of income from government
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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