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Terasaki Nibei Foundation Fka Nibei Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$133k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.5MEducation$296kInternational$256kCrime & Legal$200kCommunity Improvement$35kYouth Development$30kHealth$200Other$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
US JAPAN COUNCIL$50,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$50,000
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM$22,500
KIZUNA LITTLE TOKYO INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER: $25k → 14%US JAPAN COUNCIL: $100k → 14%DENSHO: $100k → 9%LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER: $10k → 14%US JAPAN COUNCIL: $55k → 14%DENSHO: $100k → 9%KEIRO: $200 → 14%US JAPAN COUNCIL: $50k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL COMMUNIT: $100k → 14%US JAPAN COUNCIL: $50k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL COMMUNIT: $60k → 14%US JAPAN COUNCIL: $1k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $50k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $50k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $50k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL COMMUNIT: $50k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $50k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL COMMUNIT: $50k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL COMMUNIT: $50k → 14%JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $23k → 14%KIZUNA LITTLE TOKYO INC: $10k → 14%KIZUNA LITTLE TOKYO INC: $10k → 14%KIZUNA LITTLE TOKYO INC: $10k → 14%GO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATION CTR: $5k → 14%GO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATION CTR: $5k → 14%GO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATION CTR: $5k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION: $31k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%ALZHEIMER'S GREATER LOS ANGELES: $200 → 14%JAPANESE INSTITUTE OF SAWTELLE: $1.0M → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 7 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$1.1M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
+2%

Still filing today

86%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UJ
    US- JAPAN COUNCIL
    5× · 2019–2024 · $256k · revenue +236%
  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
    5× · 2020–2024 · $223k · revenue +53%
  • 1L
    1979 LEGACY CORP
    2× · 2019–2021 · $35k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • JI
    JAPANESE INSTITUTE OF SAWTELLE
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -71% · 46% of their budget
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +2%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Us-Japan Research Institute Suite 801
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2
Japantown Cultural Society
Education
3
National Japanese American Historical Society Inc

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…

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4
Japan Society Inc

Japan society is the premier organization connecting japanese arts, culture, business, and society with audiences in new york and around the world. in fy2024, attendance onsite was 36.9k with 3.3k participating in online programs.

Arts & Culture
5
United States - Japan Foundation
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6
Soka University of America

The mission of soka university of america is to foster a steady stream of global citizens committed to living a contributive life. continued on schedule o.

Education
7
Kizuna Across Cultures

To inspire youth in Japan and the US to look beyond their communities embrace diversity and become active global citizens by fostering international friendship through exchange of culture and collaborative learning via an educational…

International
8
The Japan Society of Northern California

Founded in 1905, the japan society of northern california works to advance u.s. - japan collaboration and understanding in a global context. the society offers an array of programs and networking opportunities for people and organizations…

International
9
Alliance for Perserving the Truth of Sino-Japan War

Public education

Arts & Culture
10
Japan Center for International Exchange Inc

To promote international cooperation and understanding between japan, the united states, and other countries through leadership exchanges, policy dialogues and research, and the facilitation of person-to-person interactions.

International
11
Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Nisei Week Foundation Inc

To educate the public on japanese and japanese-american history and culture.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Densho; the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JAPANESE INSTITUTE OF SAWTELLE: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE INSTITUTE OF SAWTELLEJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $222,500 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUMDENSHO: $200,000 · Arts & CultureDENSHO+2 more: $25,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL COMMUNIT: $310,000 · OtherJAPANESE AMERICA…KIZUNA LITTLE TOKYO INC: $30,000 · OtherKIZUNA LITTLE TO…+4 more: $15,200 · OtherUCLA FOUNDATION: $281,462 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATI…US- JAPAN COUNCIL: $256,000 · InternationalUS- JAPAN CO…1979 LEGACY CORP: $35,000 · Community ImprovementALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $200 · Health
Arts & Culture$1,447,500Other$355,200Education$281,462International$256,000Community Improvement$35,000Health$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJAPANESE INSTITUTE OF SAWTELLE: $1,000,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $281,462 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUS- JAPAN COUNCIL: $256,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $222,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetDENSHO: $200,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budget1979 LEGACY CORP: $35,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetKIZUNA LITTLE TOKYO INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetGO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 JAPANESE INSTITUTE OF SAWTELLE ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds US- JAPAN COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds DENSHO ↗
  • Who funds 1979 LEGACY CORP ↗
  • Who funds KIZUNA LITTLE TOKYO INC ↗
  • Who funds GO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗

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.

The Keith and Cecilia…Terasaki Inst for Bio…California Community …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Keith and Cecilia Terasaki Family FoundationCA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Keith and Cecilia Terasaki Family Foundation · Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation · California Community 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Terasaki Nibei Foundation Fka Nibei Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Terasaki Nibei Foundation Fka Nibei Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Terasaki Nibei Foundation Fka Nibei Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Terasaki Nibei Foundation Fka Nibei Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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