California · Nonprofit
JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE
JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $656,387 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($279,280). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $565k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $656k
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Japanese American Museum of San Jose does
Mission
The mission of the Japanese American Museum of San Jose is to collect, preserve, and share the japanese american experience of the greater bay area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Collect, preserve and disseminate the arts, culture and history of the japanese american experience with a special emphasis on santa clara valley. Develop programs of oral history, hold workshops, forums and teacher training classes. Develop exhibits on the internment and resettlement periods. Take an active roll on an outreach program into the community through lectures, visits to high school, college and organizations about civil rights and civil liberties. Plan new exhibits and traveling exhibits.
$506,622 spent$79,341 earned by the program100% of program spendingMaintain the museum and library, collect artifacts, photos, written documents and history. Maintain exhibits, construct new exhibits, give lectures and walking tours of japantown. Continue to keep the website current. Maintain records of exhibited materials.
Hold annual membership drives, gala and the annual japantown winter arts & crafts boutique fund raiser. Hire a grant writer and apply for grants.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $506,622.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.1M to $4.5M (+8%).
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 9% · 2018 13% · 2019 34% · 2020 18% · 2021 13% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE’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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $18k → $124k.
9 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE’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 MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 82% · 2020 46% · 2021 67% · 2022 78% · 2023 82% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
74% of JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $168k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $489k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE: 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 MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE?
- JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $656,387 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($279,280). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $656,387 in grants to JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $279,280 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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