California · Nonprofit
Iwa Inc
Iwa Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,870 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($76,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $93k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $10k
What Iwa Inc does
Mission
The mission of IWA, Inc. is to work with Christian leaders and churches to discover and develop more effective ministry resources for use in ministering to Americans of Japanese and Asian ancestry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Media Ministries-IWA - Work with writers, fine and graphic artists, musicians, and publishers to develop culturally sensitive resources in various audio and visual media which will more effectively promote the development of Christian Ministries and leaders in the Japanese and Asian American communities.
$2,298 spent2% of program spendingChurch Growth and Evangelism Through Consultation, Presentation, and Various Forms of Resources. IWA assists churches and their leaders to discover and develop tools, methodology and personnel to effect the numeral and spiritual growth of churches and to more effectively evangelize the 97% in those communities who do not name Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and savior.
$107,267 spent96% of program spendingMinistry to Constituents - This area has to do with the direct consultation described above with ministries and decision-making and planning bodies of local churches and Christian minitries. Particularly in the areas of ministry, development, leadership, evangelism, long-range planning church growth, and church renewal in culturally sensitive ways among persons of Japanese and other Asian ancestries in the USA.
$1,871 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $111,436.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $16k to $72k (+350%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
David Akiyama
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $64k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Iwa Inc’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
Iwa Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
100% 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 Iwa Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 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 Iwa Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like Iwa Inc
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 Iwa Inc: 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 Iwa Inc?
- Iwa Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,870 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($76,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Iwa Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $82,870 in grants to Iwa Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Iwa Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $76,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Iwa Inc 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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