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Us- Japan Council

The u.s.-japan council (usjc) cultivates and connects leaders at every level in the united states and japan who are committed to a strong and enduring global partnership.

$280k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$1.8MScience & Tech$811kInternational$779kYouth Development$16k
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 25 grants below total $226,733 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $280,104 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,371 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $137k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
$8,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$18,000
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE$14,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII$13,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$13,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$12,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$10,000
DENISON UNIVERSITY$10,000
RICE UNIVERSITY$9,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY$9,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE$8,000
LAKE FOREST COLLEGE$8,000
WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY$8,000
DEPAUW UNIVERSITY$8,000
UC REGENTS- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$8,000
SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY$8,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $14k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON: $68k → 16%SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $19k → 17%NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $13k → 13%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $13k → 8%UC REGENTS - BERKELEY: $382k → 10%SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $13k → 9%STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE AT ONEONTA: $14k → 13%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $50k → 17%TAYLOR JUNIOR COLLEGE: $15k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NC WILMINGTON: $11k → 12%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%DENISON UNIVERSITY: $14k → 10%THE LAURASIAN INSTITUTION: $231k → 9%KNOX COLLEGE: $15k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $35k → 19%THE NEW SCHOOL: $150k → 6%FRANKFORT INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS: $54k → 14%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $19k → 8%UC REGENTS - BERKELEY: $27k → 10%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $21k → 10%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $11k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $25k → 9%BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC: $13k → 16%UC REGENTS - BERKELEY: $15k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $15k → 11%FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $53k → 17%CULTURAL VISTAS INC: $194k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $17k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $14k → 10%CULTURAL VISTAS: $181k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $70k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $10k → 10%CULTURAL VISTAS: $119k → 14%US-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION: $23k → 14%US-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION: $23k → 14%GLOBAL SEED LLC: $215k → 10%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $18k → 14%INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC: $15k → 14%THE WASHINGTON CENTER FOR INTERNSHIPS AND ACADEMIC SEMINARS: $141k → 14%THE WASHINGTON CENTER: $141k → 14%AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: $33k → 14%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETIES: $20k → 14%AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: $12k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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WA
MN
IL
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MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
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NC
DC
HI
MS
GA
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Grants abroad, by region — $51k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$43k · 84% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: WATANABE SCHOLARSHIP

North America (Canada and Mexico)$8k · 16% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: WATANABE SCHOLARSHIP

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

04

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 Us- Japan Council’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.

Us- Japan Councillessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.4% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 20 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
46

Total granted

$1.7M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+21%

Still filing today

60%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHealthOther

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

  • CV
    CULTURAL VISTAS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $494k · revenue +7%
  • US
    UNITED STATES-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $45k · revenue +37%
  • DU
    DENISON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $24k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LAURASIAN INSTITUTION
    one grant, 2018 · $231k
  • MC
    Mercy Corps
    one grant, 2019 · $215k · revenue +21%
  • GS
    GLOBAL SEED
    one grant, 2018 · $198k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Kizuna Across Cultures. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 72 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%66%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%3%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%62%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/82
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,483

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.

05the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 84 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
32/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY — $441,263 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEYTHE WASHINGTON CENTER FOR INTERNSHIPS & ACADEMIC SEMINARS — $282,657 · OtherTHE WASHINGTON CENTER FOR INTERNSHIPS & ACADEMIC SEMINARSTHE LAURASIAN INSTITUTION — $230,944 · OtherTHE LAURASIAN INSTITUTIONGLOBAL SEED — $198,215 · OtherGLOBAL SEEDUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS — $76,963 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS — $69,907 · Other+38 more — $596,695 · Other+38 moreCULTURAL VISTAS INC — $493,983 · InternationalCULTURAL VISTAS INCMercy Corps — $214,819 · InternationalMercy CorpsUNITED STATES-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES-JAPAN BRIDGIN…+4 more — $71,419 · International+4 moreThe New School — $150,000 · EducationThe New SchoolTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $71,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLU…AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION — $32,710 · EducationSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE — $27,500 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITY — $24,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $21,000 · Education+24 more — $267,029 · Education+24 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY — $34,970 · Community ImprovementCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $8,114 · Health
Other$1,896,644International$825,221Education$618,239Community Improvement$34,970Health$8,114

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCULTURAL VISTAS INC — $493,983 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON CENTER FOR INTERNSHIPS & ACADEMIC SEMINARS — $282,657 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMercy Corps — $214,819 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe New School — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $71,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $34,970 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION — $32,710 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE — $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY — $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC — $20,199 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETIES INC — $20,180 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLESLEY UNIVERSITY — $19,325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $16,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDePauw University — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE — $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $15,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetKNOX COLLEGE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ONEONTA FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $13,620 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $8,114 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Forest College — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE — $7,983 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $7,915 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH COLLEGE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE — $7,331 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Edwards University — $6,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

American Chemical Soc…National Collegiate A…Folds of Honor Founda…Tulsa Community Found…Hispanic Scholarship …American Council of L…President and Fellows…Association of Public…American Heart Associ…Kpmg US Foundation IncNational Geographic S…The Trustees of Colum…
American Chemical SocietyDC32.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Chemical Society · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · American Council of Learned Societies · President and Fellows of Harvard College · Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities · American Heart Association Inc · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · National Geographic Society · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

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 Us- Japan Council 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps — 3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 0% of income from government
  • Springfield College — 0% of income from government
  • Lesley University — 0% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 84 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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