New York · Nonprofit
JAPAN SOCIETY INC
JAPAN SOCIETY INC (New York) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,909,993 to it, the largest being THE CHRIS A WACHENHEIM FOUNDATION ($811,000). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 96
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $83M
What Japan Society Inc does
Mission
Japan society is the premier organization connecting japanese arts, culture, business, and society with audiences in new york and around the world. In fy2024, attendance onsite was 36.9k with 3.3k participating in online programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Gallery: (see schedule o)
$2,059,940 spent$35,307 earned by the program24% of program spendingThe language center: (see schedule o)
$1,473,659 spent$1,458,585 earned by the program17% of program spendingPerforming arts: (see schedule o)
$1,414,631 spent$183,069 earned by the program16% of program spendingFilm, culture and community; business and policy forum; education and family; media and marketing; membership.
$3,690,745 spent$847,323 earned by the program43% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,638,975.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $92M to $74M (−19%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 12% · 2022 8% · 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of JAPAN SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Joshua W Walker
President & CEO
Board chair
Merit E Janow
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $488k → $941k.
13 of 96 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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: $370k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Chicago Community Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money JAPAN SOCIETY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of JAPAN SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 96 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 SOCIETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
27% 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 SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 27% · 2019 24% · 2020 26% · 2021 22% · 2022 19% · 2023 16% — 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
25% of JAPAN SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
71% of JAPAN SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 SOCIETY INC's funding base is broadening — from 19 funders to 34 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding JAPAN SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $130k on record — $130k federal, $220 state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$130k
- DEDICATED$160
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$60
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like JAPAN SOCIETY 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ippan-Shadan-Hojin Japan Society · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JAPAN SOCIETY 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 JAPAN SOCIETY INC?
- JAPAN SOCIETY INC (New York) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,909,993 to it, the largest being THE CHRIS A WACHENHEIM FOUNDATION ($811,000). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAPAN SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 96 organizations giving $5,909,993 in grants to JAPAN SOCIETY INC, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAPAN SOCIETY INC?
- THE CHRIS A WACHENHEIM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $811,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAPAN SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 96 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing