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United States - Japan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
72
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

International$1.6MEducation$1.3MArts & Culture$1.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$513kCommunity Improvement$466kFood & Nutrition$276kYouth Development$210kSocial Science$206kOther$0
02FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $134k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $652k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.2M
$20,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$102M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD$60,000
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC$60,000
TABLE FOR TWO USA$56,579
NPO HUMAN SECURITY FORUM$55,525
IMACTSHARE$52,169
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Obon Society: $20k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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PA
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VA
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LA
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Beyond the US: 29% of all-years giving ($1.9M)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Japan$1.9M · 51 grants
Kenya$3k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 26% of United States - Japan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

United States - Japan Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 54% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 28 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
58

Total granted

$2.4M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+42%

Still filing today

57%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • KA
    Kizuna Across Cultures
    7× · 2018–2024 · $265k · revenue +131%
  • JS
    JAPAN SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +42%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $100k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $132k
  • CU
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - YEAR 2
    one grant, 2022 · $125k
  • MS
    MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $115k
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.

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Us-Japan Research Institute Suite 801
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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
3
Institute of Asian Scholars

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…

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4
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

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.

International
5
Educational Growth Across Oceans

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…

Arts & Culture
6
International Peace Institute Inc

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…

International
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Institute of International Finance

To support financial industry in prudently managing risks and to foster global financial stability.

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Center for Advanced China Research
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Global Knowledge Initiative
Education
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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
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American Society of International Law

To foster the study of international law and to promote international relations on the basis of law and justice.

International
12
Global Interdependence Center

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The International School; 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.
05the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 141 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
28/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KYOTO UNIVERSITY & UNIVERSITY OF CO BOULDER: $159,816 · Other+103 more: $3,877,291 · Other+103 moreKizuna Across Cultures: $264,610 · InternationalKizuna Across Culture…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES INC: $137,352 · InternationalNATIONAL ASSOCIATION …GLOBALIZE DC: $133,740 · InternationalGLOBALIZE DCTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $110,000 · InternationalTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL O…COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $100,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RE…JAPAN-AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $100,000 · InternationalJAPAN-AMERICAN SOCIET…CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC: $99,785 · InternationalCENTER FOR INTERNATIO…INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INC: $68,143 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CENTER …THE GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES: $66,853 · InternationalTOGETHER FOR GIRLS: $65,900 · International+5 more: $128,600 · International+5 moreJAPAN SOCIETY INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureJAPAN SOCI…THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $97,065 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER…THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $91,500 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM C…INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC: $66,560 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDEN…LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD: $65,000 · Arts & CultureLIGHT INDU…ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN ART …DENSHO: $40,000 · Arts & CultureDENSHO+7 more: $47,930 · Arts & Culture+7 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $250,000 · EducationTHE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $75,000 · EducationOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $62,600 · EducationBOSTON HIGASHI SCHOOL INC: $19,900 · Education+1 more: $9,000 · EducationTable For Two USA: $193,060 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $95,744 · Community ImprovementEPISTIMI INC: $51,000 · Science & Tech
Other$4,037,107International$1,274,983Arts & Culture$608,055Education$416,500Food & Nutrition$193,060Community Improvement$95,744Science & Tech$51,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKizuna Across Cultures: $264,610 over 7y, 23% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTable For Two USA: $193,060 over 3y, 22% of budgetJAPAN SOCIETY INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES INC: $137,352 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetGLOBALIZE DC: $133,740 over 3y, 95% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $110,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJAPAN-AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $100,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC: $99,785 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $97,065 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $95,744 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $91,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BUREAU OF ASIAN RESEARCH: $82,785 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INC: $68,143 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES: $66,853 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTOGETHER FOR GIRLS: $65,900 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD: $65,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $62,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PRESIDENCY & CONGRESS: $60,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE MIDORI FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetEPISTIMI INC: $51,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENTS OF SERVICE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTECHSOUP GLOBAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE CONNECTIONS INC: $49,700 over 2y, 13% of budgetUS JAPAN TECHNICAL CONNECTIONS INC: $40,530 over 2y, 39% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetDENSHO: $40,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetJAPAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUS- JAPAN COUNCIL: $28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEACE WINDS AMERICA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEAFAIR FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetOBON SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetBOSTON HIGASHI SCHOOL INC: $19,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL ENTERPRISES INC: $19,360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSheldon Art Museum Archaeological and Historical Society Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $9,930 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAPAN ICU FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAssociation for Asian Studies Inc: $3,330 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIA POLICY POINT: $600 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

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.

Jcc FundSumitomo Corporation …The Henry Luce Founda…Rockefeller Brothers …Open Society InstituteThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for Good
Jcc FundNY20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 United States - Japan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United States - Japan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Boston Higashi School Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
9report 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, 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.
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How do I get to United States - Japan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to United States - Japan 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 141 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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