· Private foundation
Oyama Family Foundation
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 $10k11 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN JOSE BUDDHIST CHURCH BETSUIN | $85,000 |
| WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHUCH | $25,000 |
| HART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| YU-AI KAI SENIOR CENTER | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SAN JOSE JACL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATOIN | $5,000 |
| SAN JOSE TAIKO | $5,000 |
| JACL CENTENNIAL EDUCATION FUND | $5,000 |
| JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SJ | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| DENSHO | $5,000 |
| SAN JOSE JAPANTOWN LIONS CLUB | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SAN JOSE JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- DDENSHO9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +50%
- HMHEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +223%
- YKYU-AI KAI JAPANTOWN COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- HHHONPA HONGWANI MISSION OF HAWAIIone grant, 2024 · $10k
- AKAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +6%
- TITECHNOSERVE INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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 mission of the japanese american national museum (janm) is to promote understanding and appreciation of america's ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the japanese american experience.
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…
To be a vibrant resource, strengthening our diverse community by educating present and future generations in the evolving japanese american experience in hawaii. we do this through relevant programming, meaningful community service and…
The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
Keiro's mission is to enhance the quality of senior life in our community. (cont'd on schedule o).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 35 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 Japanese American Citizens League San Jose Chapter ↗
- Who funds San Jose Taiko Group Inc ↗
- Who funds DENSHO ↗
- Who funds HEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YU-AI KAI JAPANTOWN COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Almaden Super Lions Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
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: Ja Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Oyama Family 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.
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.