Washington · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF MUKAI
FRIENDS OF MUKAI (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,992 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($57,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $713k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $160k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Friends of Mukai does
Mission
To stabilize, restore and preserve the mukai agricultural complex, and promote its cultural contributions by interpreting its history and celebrating the ongoing role of this historic landmark in the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Engage and educate the public about the once vibrant pre-wwii japanese farming community that thrived on vashon island, as well as celebrate japanese history and culture through events and historic preservation. Events include day of remembrance, haiku festival, day of exile, anime club, movies at the mukai, ghibli fest, monthly open houses and the japan festival. In 2023 approximately 1,000 community members attended the japan festival. Stewardship continues on the historic mukai house and japanese garden, believed to be the only pre-wwii strolling garden designed by a woman in the united states. Preservation continues on the historic mukai fruit barreling plant. The restoration of this building in an important part of developing the campus into a multi-cultural gathering place to honor vashon's agricultural history and it's growing diverse population.
$122,060 spent$7,074 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $122,060.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.9M to $2.4M (+29%).
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 37% · 2018 83% · 2019 66% · 2020 73% · 2021 87% · 2022 21% · 2023 51% · 2024 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of FRIENDS OF MUKAI’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $73k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 FRIENDS OF MUKAI’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
FRIENDS OF MUKAI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 FRIENDS OF MUKAI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 93% · 2021 69% · 2022 89% · 2023 68% — 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
40% of FRIENDS OF MUKAI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
54% of FRIENDS OF MUKAI's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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
FRIENDS OF MUKAI runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,356 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,356 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding FRIENDS OF MUKAI receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $629k on record.
- Department of the Interior$500k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$129k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF MUKAI
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 FRIENDS OF MUKAI: 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 FRIENDS OF MUKAI?
- FRIENDS OF MUKAI (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,992 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($57,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF MUKAI have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $159,992 in grants to FRIENDS OF MUKAI, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF MUKAI?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $57,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF MUKAI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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