California · Nonprofit
HOLLYWOOD JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE
HOLLYWOOD JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $41,000 to it, the largest being THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION ($41,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $49k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $324k
What Hollywood Japanese Cultural Institute does
Mission
The organization was established as a cultural community center, japanese language school, and judo school. The organization may approve, promote, engage in, sponsor, or coordinate any other japanese cultural activities in the hollywood japanese community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Cultural community center - the organization may approve, promote, engage in, sponsor, or coordinate any other japanese cultural activities in the hollywood japanese community.
$35,131 spent96% of program spendingJapanese language school - operate and maintain a school to teach the japanese language and conduct studies in the arts, histories, civilization and sciencies of the japanese culture.
$1,545 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $36,676.
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 2022 to 2023, from $379k to $327k (−14%).
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.
97% of HOLLYWOOD JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $9k.
From the IRS filings of HOLLYWOOD JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of HOLLYWOOD JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
Against its field
HOLLYWOOD JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE's revenue fell 59% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOLLYWOOD JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE: 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 HOLLYWOOD JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE?
- HOLLYWOOD JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $41,000 to it, the largest being THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION ($41,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOLLYWOOD JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $41,000 in grants to HOLLYWOOD JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOLLYWOOD JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE?
- THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $41,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOLLYWOOD JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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