· Public charity
Shinnyo-En Foundation
Promote global peace through service by nurturing future generations through supporting community-based organizations and educational institutions that promote and engage youth in meaningful acts of service.
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.
The 18 grants below total $324,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $345,882 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,382 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $318k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL | $40,000 |
| YOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICE | $35,000 |
| BERKELEY CITY COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| REDWOOD CITY TOGETHER | $20,000 |
| SEATTLE UNIVERSITY - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT | $20,000 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| UC BERKELEY PUBLIC SERVICE CENTER | $20,000 |
| YOUTH IN FOCUS | $17,500 |
| CHILD CREATIVITY LAB | $15,000 |
| THE VOLUNTEER CENTER | $15,000 |
| BROTHERS ON THE RISE | $15,000 |
| NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| INTERFAITH YOUTH ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| GIRLVENTURES | $10,000 |
| TEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE | $10,000 |
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, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Shinnyo-En Foundation’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, 56% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 53% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- GMGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $405k · revenue +37%
- SUSEATTLE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $356k · revenue +62%
- YCYOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $285k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- RCREDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -95%
- ACAvenue Community Development Corporationone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -12%
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
Community for youth employs youth mentoring, community building, leadership development, and career exploration to help youth develop relationships that will support their lives, connect with their internal power, and help them make a…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
As a collaborative network of unique schools in an urban setting, confluence develops the whole child by providing experiences that require critical thinking, creativity, and empathy to equip graduates to become leaders in a changing…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Yuba River Charter School provides K-8 public Waldorf education that nurtures the physical, emotional and intellectual capacities of the child through a developmentally appropriate curriculum. YRCS brings forth the academic, social,…
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 14% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 41 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 GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PUTNEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS ON THE RISE ↗
- Who funds Environmental Science Center ↗
- Who funds Levy Family Campus ↗
- Who funds TEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds THINKGIVE INC ↗
- Who funds VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Avenue Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds SHINNYO-EN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Roots ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH IN FOCUS ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD CREATIVITY LAB ↗
- Who funds THE HONEYCOMB PROJECT INC NFP ↗
- Who funds WHITE PLAINS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLVENTURES ↗
- Who funds CONCRN ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT 59 EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The California Endowment · Tides Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Shinnyo-En 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.
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% 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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