Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO JAPANESE SCHOOL
COLORADO JAPANESE SCHOOL (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,469 to it, the largest being LIBERTY EARS INC ($55,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $175k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $75k
What Colorado Japanese School does
Mission
This organization is a learning center for the japanese language and culture.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
N/a
$105,377 earned by the programFund raising for low cost education
$207,172 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $207,172.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $36k to $76k (+112%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 28% · 2018 19% · 2019 13% · 2020 18% · 2021 36% · 2022 25% · 2023 19% · 2024 28% · 2025 17% · 2026 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of COLORADO JAPANESE SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $153 → $62.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 COLORADO JAPANESE SCHOOL’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
COLORADO JAPANESE SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of COLORADO JAPANESE SCHOOL's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $469 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is 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.
Against its field
COLORADO JAPANESE SCHOOL's revenue grew 75% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 625 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like COLORADO JAPANESE SCHOOL
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO JAPANESE SCHOOL: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLORADO JAPANESE SCHOOL?
- COLORADO JAPANESE SCHOOL (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,469 to it, the largest being LIBERTY EARS INC ($55,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO JAPANESE SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $55,469 in grants to COLORADO JAPANESE SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO JAPANESE SCHOOL?
- LIBERTY EARS INC is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO JAPANESE SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 2 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing