California · Nonprofit
JAPANESE COMMUNITY PIONEER
JAPANESE COMMUNITY PIONEER (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,100 to it, the largest being JA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($53,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $950k
What Japanese Community Pioneer does
Mission
Japanese Community Pioneer center has been servicing the senior population of the greater los angeles area. Initially created for seniors of japanese descent to help each other but increasingly for the people of various ethnic backgrouns. Japanese Community Pioneer center provides social service programs, educational seminars, and cultural classes in downtown los angeles's little tokyo area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization offered its members medicare application assistance, citizenshipclass, english class, computer class and japanese cultural classes such as japanese dance, tea ceremony, poetry, quilting and claigraphy to encourage well-being of the elderly. The organization also circulated informative newletter of upcoming community events and benefits available to the elderly.
The organization offered its members medicare application assistance, citixenship class, english class, computer class and japanese cultural classes such as japanese dance, tea ceremony, poetry, quilting and calligraphy to encourage well-being of the elderly. The organization also circulated informative newletters of upcoming community events and benefits available to the elderly.
$71,224 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $71,224.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $985k to $1.0M (+4%).
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 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $42k → $7k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 COMMUNITY PIONEER’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 COMMUNITY PIONEER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 COMMUNITY PIONEER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 59% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 60% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
80% of JAPANESE COMMUNITY PIONEER'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 $17k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like JAPANESE COMMUNITY PIONEER
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JAPANESE COMMUNITY PIONEER: 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 COMMUNITY PIONEER?
- JAPANESE COMMUNITY PIONEER (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,100 to it, the largest being JA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($53,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JAPANESE COMMUNITY PIONEER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $85,100 in grants to JAPANESE COMMUNITY PIONEER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAPANESE COMMUNITY PIONEER?
- JA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $53,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAPANESE COMMUNITY PIONEER 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 3 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