Oregon · Nonprofit
GRESHAM JAPANESE GARDEN
GRESHAM JAPANESE GARDEN (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,570 to it, the largest being CHASE ME AGAIN ($17,720). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $204k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $366k
What Gresham Japanese Garden does
Mission
Primary exempt purpose is maintaining the Gresham Japanese Garden for the public enjoyment; a place of culture, beauty and learning for the entire public: - cultural awareness to build upon the japanese american legacy in the gresham, or area. - memorial paving stones along the spur trail for the entire public to participate and view. - educational resource center which offers workshops, classes, and cultural entertainment. - education opportunities at the greenhouse for volunteers, the public, and special needs students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Building cultural awareness of the japanese american legacy in the gresham, or area by maintaining the Gresham Japanese Garden.
$16,496 spent18% of program spendingLaying memorial paving stones along the spur trail for public participation and viewing.
Providing educational opportunities and cultural enrichment through the educational resource center and greenhouse with a focus on providing education for special needs students.
Maintenance of the Gresham Japanese Garden
$76,025 spent82% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $92,521.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $85k to $212k (+149%).
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: 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $4k.
From the IRS filings of GRESHAM JAPANESE GARDEN’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
GRESHAM JAPANESE GARDEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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
82% 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 GRESHAM JAPANESE GARDEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
GRESHAM JAPANESE GARDEN draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like GRESHAM JAPANESE GARDEN
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 GRESHAM JAPANESE GARDEN: 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 GRESHAM JAPANESE GARDEN?
- GRESHAM JAPANESE GARDEN (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,570 to it, the largest being CHASE ME AGAIN ($17,720). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRESHAM JAPANESE GARDEN have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $21,570 in grants to GRESHAM JAPANESE GARDEN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRESHAM JAPANESE GARDEN?
- CHASE ME AGAIN is the largest funder on record, with $17,720 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRESHAM JAPANESE GARDEN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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