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Nomura America Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$146k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Recreation & Sports$201kArts & Culture$190kEducation$77kInternational$63kCommunity Improvement$44kHealth$35kHuman Services$26kEmployment$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAPAN DAY INC$50,000
JAPAN SOCIETY INC$25,000
THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION$20,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC$15,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - CENTER ON JAPANESE ECONOMY AND BUSINESS$10,000
GENESYS WORKS NYC$5,000
BUSINESS UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING AND DEVELPOMENT$2,000
UNICEF-US FUND$1,105
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS$1,000
THE PINGRY SCHOOL$1,000
YESSHIVAT HE'ATID$1,000
ALL SOULS SCHOOL$1,000
SACRED HEART ACADEMY$1,000
COLGATE UNIVERSITY$1,000
BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $240) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $240 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$548k · 36 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
36

Total granted

$548k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+15%

Still filing today

75%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • JD
    JAPAN DAY INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +384% · 32% of their budget
  • JS
    JAPAN SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +42%
  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -15%
  • AF
    ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +12%
  • DJ
    DEAR JACK FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
The New School

The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)

Education
11
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Agile Learning School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Cancer Support ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Independent K-12 SchoolsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…School Parent OrganizationsCommunity College Foundatio…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%57%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%40%10–20yr19%9%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%47%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/64
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,696

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.

04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 88 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
45/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JAPAN DAY INC — $200,000 · Recreation & SportsJAPAN DAY INCJAPAN SOCIETY INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureJAPAN SOCIETY INCTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATI…Metropolitan Opera Association Inc — $15,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Associat…+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - CENTER ON JAPANESE ECONOMY AND BUSINESS — $40,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - CE…THE METROPOLITAN OPERA — $31,000 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN OPERAThe Japanese American Association of New York Inc — $25,000 · OtherThe Japanese American As…GENESYS WORKS NYC — $5,000 · Other+32 more — $42,490 · Other+32 moreUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $16,661 · InternationalUNITED STAT…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $13,400 · InternationalMEDECINS SA…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $11,465 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE…International Rescue Committee INC — $9,226 · InternationalInternation…Save The Children Federation Inc — $8,815 · InternationalSave The Ch…DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE — $5,000 · InternationalDRESS FOR S…OXFAM-AMERICA INC — $2,955 · International+1 more — $300 · InternationalSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $4,485 · EducationNEWARK ACADEMY — $3,000 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton College — $3,000 · EducationBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION — $3,000 · EducationYESHIVAT HEATID INC — $2,000 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $2,000 · EducationRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $2,000 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $2,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION — $2,000 · EducationMANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $2,000 · EducationTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $2,000 · EducationHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $2,000 · EducationHorace Mann School — $2,000 · Education+20 more — $17,275 · EducationNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $10,000 · HealthDEAR JACK FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE BRONXVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $240 · Human Services
Recreation & Sports$200,000Arts & Culture$156,000Other$143,490International$67,822Education$50,760Health$35,000Philanthropy$1,000Human Services$240

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJAPAN DAY INC — $200,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetJAPAN SOCIETY INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Japanese American Association of New York Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $16,661 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $13,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $11,465 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEAR JACK FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $9,226 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $8,815 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $4,485 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEWARK ACADEMY — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $2,955 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA HAR TORAH — $2,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVAT HEATID INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHorace Mann School — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION OF PS145 — $1,650 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL PARENT ASSOCIATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINE HOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRONXVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALL SOULS SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENT & TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF PS 29 INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDARUL ULOOM NEW JERSEY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS OF PS 9 INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetManhattan University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Express Foun…The Blackbaud Giving …First Eagle Investmen…Ibm International Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…United Way WorldwideJewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY24× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · First Eagle Investments Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · United Way Worldwide · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Nomura America Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Hun School of Princeton — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Nomura America Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nomura America Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 88 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines