Minnesota · Nonprofit
JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA
JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,276 to it, the largest being PROPEL NONPROFITS ($54,888). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $146k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $90k
What Japan America Society of Minnesota does
Mission
JASM provides a place where both individuals and businesses are able to engage in cultural activities, meet others with an interest in Japan, form new business relationships, learn, and build mutual respect between Japan and America. Our member supported, non-profit, non-political association is dedicated to bringing the peoples of Japan and the United States closer together in mutual understanding, respect, and cooperation. Through programs and interchange, we endeavor to promote an appreciation of cultural, educational, economic, public, and other affairs of interest to both peoples. Membership in the society is open to individuals, corporations, and other organizations interested in furthering its programs. Supporting business relationships and providing a place where individuals can engage in Japanese cultural events is a driving force in JASM. Founded in 1972, JASM is a member of the National Association of Japan-America Societies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We awarded four Mondale Scholarships to undergraduate students enrolled in Minnesota colleges who wanted to broaden their knowledge of Japan through a combination of study and travel. We were able to award $2,000 to each student through the successful fundraising gala event.
$8,000 spent42% of program spending2025 Japanese Obon Festival celebration of Japanese culture and tradition. This includes food, singing, dancing, martial arts, and lantern lighting. Family friendly games and fun activities to promote Japanese culture.
$1,871 spent10% of program spendingProgramming in Japanese culture, history, business, arts.
$9,036 spent48% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,907.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $134k to $111k (−17%).
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: 2020 21% · 2021 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Rio Saito
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $29.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA’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
JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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 JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 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 JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 MINNESOTA receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $80k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA
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 Minnesota
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 JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA: 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 JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA?
- JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,276 to it, the largest being PROPEL NONPROFITS ($54,888). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $80,276 in grants to JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA?
- PROPEL NONPROFITS is the largest funder on record, with $54,888 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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