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Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Inc

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.

$92k
Granted FY2020
10
Grants FY2020
10
Organizations funded FY2020
50%
First-time grantees FY2020
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100% of Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Common Counsel Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $92k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’17
4
’18
4
’19
8
’20
1
’22
0
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$67,425
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
2
Total assets, FY2020
$2.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 50% of the organizations Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Community ImprovementCivil RightsArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202010$92k50%
FY20197$85k14%
FY20187$27k100%
FY20171$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$402kCommunity Improvement$158kArts & Culture$130kHealth$35kEducation$14kReligion$9kHuman Services$8kCivil Rights$4k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
1979 Legacy Corp$157,925316%
Visual Communications Media$120,000112%
Filipino Migrant Center$8,35031%
Japanese American National Museum$7,00030%
Buena Vista United Methodist Church$4,3501n/a
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$4,35010%
Asian American Drug Abuse Program Inc$4,17520%
Pacific Clinics$2,17510%
Providence Trinitycare Hospice Foundation$1,00010%
Zentoku Foundation$1,0001n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($39k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget1979 Legacy Corp: $157,925 over 3y, 16% of budgetVisual Communications Media: $120,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFilipino Migrant Center: $8,350 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJapanese American National Museum: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $4,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAsian American Drug Abuse Program Inc: $4,175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Clinics: $2,175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence Trinitycare Hospice Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

California Community …Durfee FoundationSempra FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Durfee Foundation · Sempra Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Inc

How much does Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Inc give?
Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $92,175 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (53%), Community Improvement (21%), Arts & Culture (17%).
Who are Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: 1979 Legacy Corp ($158k), Visual Communications Media ($120k), Filipino Migrant Center ($8k).
Does Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Durfee Foundation, Sempra Foundation.
Where is Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Inc based?
Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 17 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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