Takahashi Family Foundation

• The foundation makes grants directly to select nonprofit groups and does not accept unsolicited letters of inquiry, proposals or nominations, so a small charity should not send a cold request and should approach it only if it can build a connection that could lead to an invitation.
• Its stated focus is the Japanese American community, US-Japan relations, Japanese American cultural heritage and history, and arts and education, with history told by Japanese Americans themselves, including survivors and descendants of wartime incarceration.
• Its filings show grants mainly in California, though no geographic focus is stated, so that pattern describes its past giving rather than a rule about who may apply.
• A typical grant falls between $15,000 and $225,000, with about 8 in 10 of its 54 grants in that band and half at $37,500 or less, but its largest grant was $4,200,000, so a modest request is more likely to fit than a large one.
• Only 4% of its grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had funded in earlier filings, and it gives preference to projects that appear to have the most meaningful impact into the future, so any proposal should make that lasting impact clear.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• SF State University Foundation · For tax exempt purposes of this organization
  $4,200,0002024 tax year
• JCCCNC · For tax exempt purposes of this organization
  $188,6812024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.