California · Nonprofit
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 143 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,210,639 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($12,946,394). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 143
- Grants received
- $45M
- Net assets
- $77M
What Japanese American National Museum does
Mission
The mission of the Japanese American National Museum (janm) is to promote understanding and appreciation of america's ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the japanese american experience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions and collectionsjanm extended the popular exhibition giant robot biennale 5, which celebrated asian american pop culture and art, through the fall. Janm's commitment to preserving, honoring, and illuminating the stories of the world war ii incarceration was exemplified in contested histories: preserving and sharing a community collection, which revealed new, crowdsourced research about the important eaton collection of art and artifacts made in america's concentration camps. Two pop-up exhibitions celebrated janm's little tokyo community: celebrating little tokyo at 140 years highlighted the neighborhood's history through items from janm's collection, while mario gershom reyes: obras de luz (works of light) honored the community-based work of the beloved rafu shimpo photographer. Janm's nationally touring exhibition pictures of belonging, which invites viewers to rediscover the work of three trailblazing women - miki hayakawa, hisako hibi, and mine okubo - continued to the smithsonian american art museum, where it was met with critical acclaim and some 800,000 visitors. The janm-organized exhibition japanese american history and art from janm's collection traveled to…
$5,122,193 spent$205,117 earned by the program60% of program spendingEducationafter concluding the first half of the academic year with school children visiting janm in-person before it closed for renovation, janm's education team turned to virtual visits and piloted a new, in-school program that brought lessons of japanese american history to middle and high school student classrooms and assemblies, often reaching entire grades, in some cases, the entire school in one day. The museum reached 8,912 students and educators in 28 states in fy2025. In may 2025, the national endowment for the humanities funding for janm's annual landmarks of american history teacher workshops was terminated by the department of government efficiency. But disappointment soon changed to elation as hundreds of people across the country stepped up with donations to bring teachers from across the us to janm. The sixty-four teachers attending the workshops in fy2025 met camp survivors and toured little tokyo and manzanar, bringing back experiences that will collectively reach thousands of students across the county every year.
$1,887,452 spent22% of program spendingPublic programs, marketing, membership and communicationsjanm's year of public programs ranged from janm book club events with authors like george takei and giant robot's eric nakamura to community programs celebrating the manzanar baseball project, musician june kuramoto, and earth day. Janm also celebrated summer and the new year with more than 6,300 people at the museum's free natsumatsuri and oshogatsu family festivals. The program honoring common ground gave a meaningful farewell to the core exhibition, inviting the community to share their stories. The democracy center served as a voting center for the first time this november, hosted the smithsonian's national conversation on race, and presented a pop-up of mark mothersbaugh's and beatie wolfe's project postcards for democracy. The smithsonian's lonnie g. Bunch iii spoke at the inaugural irene hirano inouye distinguished lecture - a prescient conversation that addressed threats facing us museums. For our fragile democracy: the role of state attorneys general in upholding the law in times of crisis, rob bonta, attorney general of the state of california, and other experts discussed legal strategies to counter attacks on…
$1,472,752 spent$253,697 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,482,397.
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 2020 to 2021, from $51M to $69M (+36%).
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: 2022 16% · 2023 9% · 2024 6% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Natalie A Burroughs
President/CEO
Board chair
William T Fujioka
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 62 funders, grant income rose $582k → $13M.
21 of 143 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 NATIONAL MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 143 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 NATIONAL MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
60% 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 NATIONAL MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 17% · 2019 29% · 2020 76% · 2021 85% · 2022 21% · 2023 72% — 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
38% of JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM'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
59% of JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM'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 $19M that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from funders outside California, across 16 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 NATIONAL MUSEUM holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.8M on record.
- Department of the Interior$3.6M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$1.3M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$855k
- National Endowment for the Arts$120k
- Smithsonian Institution$8k
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 NATIONAL MUSEUM
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Japanese American National Museum LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: 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 NATIONAL MUSEUM?
- JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 143 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,210,639 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($12,946,394). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 143 organizations giving $45,210,639 in grants to JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM, 84 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $12,946,394 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM 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 143 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