Texas · Nonprofit
Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth
Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $187,927 to it, the largest being ORIX STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION ($63,777). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $300k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $188k
- Net assets
- $559k
What Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth does
Mission
To be a catalyst for vibrant, lasting interaction between the people of North Texas and Japan, impacting lives in a spirit of enduring friendship and trust.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Annual Otsukimi Moon Viewing Festival (Social/Cultural Programming): Held in the fall of 2024 at the Haggard Park in Plano, this free event showcased various Japanese cultures to the community. It featured performances on taiko drum, a young girls choir singing Japanese songs, sumo wrestling demonstrations, ikebana flower arrangements, bonsai tree displays, a Japanese tea ceremony, and more. The event was attended by over 2,000 people at the park.
$76,380 spent$20,830 earned by the program42% of program spendingJapan-in-a-Suitcase (Educational Programming): This community outreach program continued mainly for primary school children. Staff is sent to school classrooms and libraries to introduce facts about Japan, its culture, and other traditions.
$52,104 spent$27,787 earned by the program28% of program spendingJapan Currents Symposium (Business Programming): This annual event brought expert perspectives on current and new trends in business, politics, technologies, or policies that impact the relationships between the U.S. and Japan. The symposium was sponsored by National Association of Japan America Societies and the Embassy of Japan, with support from the Southern Methodist University Tower Center of Public Policy & International Affairs. The event featured a keynote speaker with multiple expert panelists and has historically been quite popular, with attendance at maximum capacity of around 100 people.
$43,195 spent23% of program spendingDallas-Sendai Activities (Ambassador Programming): As in past years, we selected two runners to participate in the Sendai International Half-Marathon, accompanied by some of our members, and the cost of travel to Japan was partly covered. Also, during the New Year celebration, we worked with local Japanese language teachers, and their students created 50-60 New Year greeting cards. These handmade cards contained artwork and New Year messages written in Japanese and were sent to Sendai's Morinosato home for senior citizens for their enjoyment.
$12,188 spent$150 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $183,867.
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 $973k to $734k (−25%).
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: 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Lawrence Howorth
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $41k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $8k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Dallas Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth raised.
From the IRS filings of Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. 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
Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 80% · 2019 86% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 65% · 2023 73% — 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
67% of Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 44% 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
89% of Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k 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.
Against its field
Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
38% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth?
- Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $187,927 to it, the largest being ORIX STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION ($63,777). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $187,927 in grants to Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth?
- ORIX STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $63,777 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Japan-America Society of DallasFort Worth find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 9 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