Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC
THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $377,320 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($235,750). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC's revenue fell 52% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,211 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trustshared fundersportfolio match
- The William & Lia G Poorvu Family Foundationshared funders
- Jtb Cultural Exchange Corporationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
69% of THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $500 → $33k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 66% · 2019 33% · 2020 73% · 2021 58% · 2022 93% · 2023 96% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
24% of THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
81% of THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $71k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $307k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trustshared fundersportfolio matchMA · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The William & Lia G Poorvu Family Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- Jtb Cultural Exchange Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nippon Express Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jcc Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States - Japan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian Healthcare Foundation of Massachusetts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Schechter Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deborah M Noonan Memorial Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kershaw Foundation Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nbt II Foundation Jh3540portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
36% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC?
- THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $377,320 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($235,750). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $377,320 in grants to THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $235,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing