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Funds to Grow On: The new Japanese American National Museum has hit it big in the national grants pool, winning a $500,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant must be matched 3-to-1 from non-federal funding sources. The money will be used for a new 65,000-square-foot pavilion (scheduled for groundbreaking in 1994) that will house exhibition galleries, a resource center and permanent collection storage space. Some funding also will go into a permanent endowment for staffing and visiting scholars. Akemi Kikumura, director of program development, said, “We still need to raise a lot of money,” but the grant “makes it easier.”