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JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE - PUYALLUP VALLEY
JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE - PUYALLUP VALLEY (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,000 to it, the largest being Harry and Masie Masto Foundation dba masto foundation ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $391k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $57k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Japanese American Citizens League - Puyallup Valley does
Mission
The japanese american citizens league is a national organization whose mission is to advocate and safeguard the civil and human rights of asian and pacific islander americans and all communities who are affected by injustice and bigotry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The largest program service accomplishment is the completion of the remembrance gallery which is a permanent memorial and exhibit commemorating the incarceration of japanese and japanese americans on the puyallup fairgrounds in 1942. Puyallup valley japanese american citizens league (pv jacl) raised the funds and worked with designers to create a permanent space which honor the survivors and educates the public about this importance injustice. Multiple opening events were held in august for the gallery for survivors, community memebers and donors. Pv jacl provided docent services at the gallery during the 21 days of the washington state fair in september and conducted tours for numerous groups in the fall including eight school tour and six school presentations.
$93,869 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $93,869.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $1.8M (+20%).
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: 2023 48% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $8k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE - PUYALLUP VALLEY’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
JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE - PUYALLUP VALLEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE - PUYALLUP VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 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
JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE - PUYALLUP VALLEY draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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.
Government funding JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE - PUYALLUP VALLEY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $400k on record.
- Department of the Interior$400k
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 JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE - PUYALLUP VALLEY
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
36%
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 JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE - PUYALLUP VALLEY: 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 JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE - PUYALLUP VALLEY?
- JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE - PUYALLUP VALLEY (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,000 to it, the largest being Harry and Masie Masto Foundation dba masto foundation ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE - PUYALLUP VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $57,000 in grants to JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE - PUYALLUP VALLEY.
- Who is the largest funder of JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE - PUYALLUP VALLEY?
- Harry and Masie Masto Foundation dba masto foundation is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE - PUYALLUP VALLEY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 6 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