United States-Japan Foundation

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The United States-Japan Foundation is committed to promoting stronger ties between Americans and Japanese by supporting projects that foster mutual knowledge and education, deepen understanding, create effective channels of communication, and address common concerns in an increasingly interdependent world.

The Foundation offers the following programs:

Pre-College Education
The Foundation seeks to respond to needs at the pre-college level as...

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Total Annual Giving: $1,970,599

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This funder has a page on their website listing previous grantees.: Grants Awarded

You can review this for their grants history and giving priorities.: Annual report

You can review tax forms on ProPublica. Learn more about them and the 990.: 990s

This is a list of grant recipients noted on the funder’s 990 forms.

This includes forms filed in 2018 and later, so it can include information for tax years earlier than that.

The information below is pulled directly from the form itself without any alterations.

If the details are not included, e.g. “Various”, they may be indicated on the PDF on the IRS site.

Tax Year	Recipient	City	Country	Amount	Purpose
2021	AMERASIAN SCHOOL OF OKINAWA	Ginowan Okinawa	JA	$53,753	To support a third year inclusive bilingual curriculum which maximizes the academic potential of all japanese-american children.
2023	WOMEN'S NET KOBE	Kobe	JA	$37,914	Wnk is fund raising to build a "women's house" in kobe to house some 40 families who are suffering from such cases, who have no safe spaces and without funding or guarantors to secure housing on their own, as well as 15 international students who have no permanent home.
2019	Global Fund For Education Assistance (Beyond Tomor	Tokyo	JA	$43,066	To support the beyond tomorrow program to assist underprivileged japanese youth including a trip to the us.
2019	AmerAsian School In Okinawa	Okinawa	JA	$54,409	To support funding a principal and teacher for an independent school in okinawa targeted at japanese-american students and other students that have difficulty fitting into the japanese public school system.
2019	Global Fund For Education Assistance (Beyond Tomor	Tokyo	JA	$56,752	To support the 2019 jiro murase scholarship program, which brings japanese students to the united states to learn about legal and political affairs.

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The most recent tax form filed for 2024 lists the following key individuals.

Name	Title	City	State / Province Sort descending	Country
B2K SOCIAL VENTURES	Consultation	Berkeley	CA	US
COLLEEN HANABUSA	Board Of Trustees	Washington	DC	US
TOMOYUKI WATANABE	Managing Director	Washington	DC	US
CRAIG MULLANEY	Board Of Trustees	Washington	DC	US
DONNA TANOUE	Board Of Trustees	Washington	DC	US
JAMES KONDO	Board Of Trustees	Washington	DC	US
KELLY NIXON	Executive Director	Washington	DC	US
JACOB M SCHLESINGER	President & Ceo	Washington	DC	US
WENDY CUTLER	Board Of Trustees Vice Chairman	Washington	DC	US
KEIKO TASHIRO	Board Of Trustees	Washington	DC	US
YUKO MOCHIZUKI	Program Manager	Washington	DC	US
LAWRENCE K FISH	Board Of Trustees Chairman	Washington	DC	US
RICHARD E DYCK	Board Of Trustees	Washington	DC	US
KOHEI ITOH	Board Of Trustees	Washington	DC	US
MAKIKO MUROTANI	Office Manager	Washington	DC	US
SANTA ONO	Board Of Trustees	Washington	DC	US
KORN FERRY	Recruitment	Minneapolis	MN	US
IRONPAPER INC	Website	Caldwell	NJ	US
JAPAN FUNDRAISING ASSOCIATION	Research	Tokyo	TOKYO	JA
SHWORLDWIDE LLC (SHW)	Transportation	Seattle	WA	US

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