· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| UC BERKELEY PUBLIC SERVICE CENTER | $20,000 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| REDWOOD CITY TOGETHER | $20,000 |
| SEATTLE UNIVERSITY - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT | $20,000 |
| YOUTH IN FOCUS | $17,500 |
| BROTHERS ON THE RISE | $15,000 |
| CHILD CREATIVITY LAB | $15,000 |
| NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| INTERFAITH YOUTH ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| THE VOLUNTEER CENTER | $15,000 |
| GIRLVENTURES | $10,000 |
| PUTNEY SCHOOL SUMMER ARTS | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Shinnyo-En Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 53%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -21% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- ACAvenue Community Development Corporationone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -12%
- RCREDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -96%
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2018 · $50k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 SPIRIT SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds TEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THINKGIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Avenue Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 CONCRN ↗
- Who funds GIRLVENTURES ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shinnyo-En Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shinnyo-En Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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