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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $226,733, the rows itemized in this filing. The $280,104 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $53,371 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$13,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII$13,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$12,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$10,000
DENISON UNIVERSITY$10,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY$9,000
RICE UNIVERSITY$9,000
UC REGENTS- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$8,000
LAKE FOREST COLLEGE$8,000
DEPAUW UNIVERSITY$8,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE$8,000
SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY$8,000
WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY$8,000
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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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WA
MN
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MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
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RI
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
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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

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. 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 sends the money.

About 6% of Us- Japan Council’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Us- Japan Councillessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.4% 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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
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

  • 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
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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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
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
6
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; 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.
05the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 84 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
32/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNOX COLLEGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetLake Forest College: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $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 budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH 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
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.

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

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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.

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 84 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 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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