· Private foundation
United States - Japan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $652k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC | $99,785 |
| VIVARSITY | $84,080 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE | $82,643 |
| PRX INC | $80,000 |
| MAUREEN & MIKE MANSFIELD FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN ASIA (DBA VIA) | $69,228 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INC | $68,143 |
| THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC | $66,500 |
| TOGETHER FOR GIRLS INC | $65,900 |
| INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF JAPAN | $62,816 |
| CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC | $60,000 |
| LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD | $60,000 |
| TABLE FOR TWO USA | $56,579 |
| NPO HUMAN SECURITY FORUM | $55,525 |
| IMACTSHARE | $52,169 |
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 US giving — 71% of grant dollars ($4.7M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 29% that went abroad ($1.9M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
Beyond the US — 29% of all-years giving ($1.9M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of United States - Japan 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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- KAKizuna Across Cultures7× · 2018–2024 · $265k · revenue +131%
- JSJAPAN SOCIETY INC3× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +42%
- COCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC2× · 2018–2019 · $100k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $132k
- CUCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - YEAR 2one grant, 2022 · $125k
- MSMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $115k
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.
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,…
naisA Global is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization dedicated to helping talented young Asian professionals unlock their potential and become great leaders. It is the only non-profit of its kind to provide a global platform to…
International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.
The mission of animazement is to provide an introduction to japanese language and culture, through the world of japanese animation and manga. for three days each spring, we bring together a diverse group of attendees, volunteers, special…
The international peace institute (ipi) bridges policy and real-world diplomacy, advising global leaders and shaping innovative policy solutions across the multilateral system, governments, and beyond through independent research and…
To support financial industry in prudently managing risks and to foster global financial stability.
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…
To foster the study of international law and to promote international relations on the basis of law and justice.
Gic brings together a network of international experts in policymaking, central banking, industry, and academia to explore issues and policies concerning global interdependence that impacts world economies and quality of life. we provide a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The International School and the most unlike its peers is Us Japan Technical Connections Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 141 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 Kizuna Across Cultures ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Table For Two USA ↗
- Who funds JAPAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALIZE DC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds JAPAN-AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF ASIAN RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INC ↗
- Who funds THE GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD ↗
- Who funds OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH 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: Jcc Fund · Sumitomo Corporation of Americas Foundation · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Open Society Institute · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good
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 United States - Japan 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.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Boston Higashi School Inc — 5% 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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