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Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA 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.

$756k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$623k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Public Benefit$3.9MInternational$760kSocial Science$542kScience & Tech$109kEducation$84kArts & Culture$8kEmployment$500
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $109k
  • $250k+1 grant · $623k
$14,614
Median grant
8
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
US ASSOCIATION OF FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS$622,744
EAST-WEST CENTER$28,713
USJETAA US-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION$28,660
INTERNATIONAL PEACE INSTITUTE$21,750
THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND$15,503
JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF HAWAII$14,614
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$7,262
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES$7,023
INDIANA UNIVERSITY$5,480
JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN COLORADO$2,817
THE CITADEL$1,528
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF HAWAII: $15k → 9%INTERNATIONAL PEACE INSTITUTE: $22k → 17%US ASSOCIATION OF FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: $758k → 14%NATIONAL BUREAU OF ASIAN RESEARCH: $15k → 9%THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $16k → 23%EAST-WEST CENTER: $29k → 9%US ASSOCIATION OF FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: $623k → 14%EAST-WEST CENTER: $28k → 9%US ASSOCIATION OF FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: $546k → 14%EAST-WEST CENTER: $23k → 9%US ASSOCIATION OF FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: $434k → 14%EAST-WEST CENTER: $23k → 9%US ASSOCIATION OF FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: $383k → 14%EAST-WEST CENTER: $19k → 9%US ASSOCIATION OF FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: $370k → 14%EAST-WEST CENTER: $18k → 9%US ASSOCIATION OF FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS (FMC): $355k → 14%EAST-WEST CENTER: $16k → 9%US ASSOCIATION OF FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: $105k → 14%EAST-WEST CENTER: $16k → 9%US ASSOCIATION OF FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: $92k → 14%EAST-WEST CENTER: $12k → 9%USJETAA US-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION: $29k → 14%USJETAA US-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%US JETAA US-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%USJETAA US-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION: $24k → 14%US-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION: $23k → 14%US JETAA US-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION: $18k → 14%US JETAA US-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION: $17k → 14%US JETAA US-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION: $14k → 14%US JETAA US-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%KIZUNA ACROSS CULTURES: $31k → 14%ASPEN INSTITUTE: $502k → 14%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES: $96k → 14%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES: $85k → 14%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICAN SOCIETIES: $79k → 14%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES: $72k → 14%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES (NAJAS): $48k → 14%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES: $46k → 14%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES: $36k → 14%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES (NAJAS): $28k → 14%INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCE: $26k → 14%INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS: $24k → 14%WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF AMERICA: $15k → 14%INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS: $12k → 14%JASWDC JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC: $10k → 14%AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $30k → 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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 43% of Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 2% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 95% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 9 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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18

Total granted

$4.3M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+30%

Still filing today

56%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalSocial ScienceEducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther

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

  • FM
    FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +20% · 28% of their budget
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $489k · revenue -21%
  • EC
    EAST-WEST CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $183k

Funded once

  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $502k · revenue +231%
  • UA
    US ASSOCIATION OF FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
    one grant, 2017 · $355k
  • KA
    Kizuna Across Culturesgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $31k · revenue +131%

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.

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Us-Japan Research Institute Suite 801
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American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
3
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
4
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
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Academy of International Business

We create, nurture, and empower a global community of scholars focused on creating, advancing, and disseminating knowledge in international business research, education, policy, and practice.

Education
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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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Institute of International Bankers

The iib represents the interests of the international banking community before u.s. legislative/regulatory bodies liaises with international regulatory bodies serves as a source of information to the media and other interested parties…

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Institute for Shipboard Education

Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.

Education
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Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
11
American National Standards Institute

To enhance both the global competitiveness of u.s. business and the u.s. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity.

Public Benefit
12
Global Ties Us

Global ties u.s. (global ties) powers individuals, communities, and nations to build trust and advance peace and prosperity through international exchange.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Student Conferences Inc and the most unlike its peers is Media Bridges Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS — $3,311,336 · Public BenefitFORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESSUS ASSOCIATION OF FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS (FMC) — $355,251 · OtherUS ASSOCIATION O…EAST-WEST CENTER — $183,240 · OtherEAST-WEST CENTERUSJETAA US-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION — $161,299 · OtherUSJETAA US-JAPAN…YOKOSUKA COUNCIL ON ASIA-PACIFIC STUDIES — $27,000 · Other+15 more — $66,630 · Other+15 moreNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES INC — $489,079 · InternationalNATIONAL ASSOC…INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC — $49,202 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL …THE INT'L CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INC — $35,546 · InternationalKizuna Across Cultures — $31,182 · InternationalUNITED STATES-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION INC — $22,751 · International+4 more — $52,364 · International+4 moreTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $501,952 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN …+1 more — $14,038 · Social ScienceThe George Washington University — $29,508 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $15,503 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $2,644 · EducationMEDIA BRIDGES INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Public Benefit$3,311,336Other$793,420International$680,124Social Science$515,990Education$47,655Arts & Culture$5,000

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 budgetFORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS — $3,311,336 over 8y, 28% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $501,952 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES INC — $489,079 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC — $49,202 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetTHE INT'L CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INC — $35,546 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe George Washington University — $29,508 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION INC — $22,751 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $15,503 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCILS OF AMERICA — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BUREAU OF ASIAN RESEARCH — $14,924 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION — $14,038 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDIA BRIDGES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $2,644 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — $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.

  • Who funds FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES INC
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC
  • Who funds THE INT'L CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INC
  • Who funds Kizuna Across Cultures
  • Who funds The George Washington University
  • Who funds UNITED STATES-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL PEACE INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
  • Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCILS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF ASIAN RESEARCH
  • Who funds JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF HAWAII
  • Who funds AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds MEDIA BRIDGES INC
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE

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 Freeman FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Freeman Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA 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.

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no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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

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    How do I get to Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA Inc 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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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