California · Nonprofit
JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER
JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER (California) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,088,510 to it, the largest being PERENCHIO FOUNDATION ($2,238,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Japanese American Cultural and Community Center does
Mission
The jaccc weaves japanese and japanese american arts and culture into the fabric of our communities. The jaccc remains firmly rooted in little tokyo, providing a vital place to build connections between people and cultures, locally and internationally. Through inclusive programs and authentic experiences, we continue our living traditions and nuture the next generation of innovative artists, culture bearers and thinkers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The jaccc fulfills its mission to provide a center to enhance community programs. Its theatre, gallery, and plaza are available to the community at-large as venues for performing arts, film and other public gatherings.
$1,821,395 spent$446,237 earned by the program41% of program spendingIn an effort to provide exposure to diverse audiences, the jaccc presents and produces exhibitions, performances, festivals, and workshops which center around japanese and japanese american arts, music, cuisine, and culture.
$1,452,947 spent$609,177 earned by the program32% of program spendingThe jaccc's center building is home to many nonprofit organizations whose primary foci range from cultural studies such as dance, flower arrangement, and tea cerremony to healthcare (bone marrow matches) and neighborhood revitalization. In addition, many of the local cultural organization utilize rooms and the japanese garden for meetings, conferences, and events.
$1,206,568 spent$724,271 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,480,910.
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 2017 to 2018, from $9.3M to $12M (+24%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 9% · 2022 8% · 2023 16% · 2024 5% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Patricia Wyatt
President & CEO
Board chair
Russel Tsuda
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $425k → $2.1M.
9 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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: $25k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Japanese Home for the Aged). These are real filings, and they are not money JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 61% · 2019 63% · 2020 63% · 2021 42% · 2022 40% · 2023 37% — 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
27% of JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
60% of JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $678k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$290k
- Department of the Interior$242k
- National Archives and Records Administration$125k
- Smithsonian Institution$21k
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 CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER
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.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: 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 CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER?
- JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER (California) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,088,510 to it, the largest being PERENCHIO FOUNDATION ($2,238,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $9,088,510 in grants to JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER?
- PERENCHIO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,238,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 40 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