Hawaii · Nonprofit
JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII
JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $582,758 to it, the largest being TRADEWIND GROUP FOUNDATION ($86,726). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $713k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $583k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii does
Mission
To be a vibrant resource, strengthening our diverse community by educating present and future generations in the evolving japanese american experience in hawaii. We do this through relevant programming, meaningful community service and innovative partnerships that enhance the understanding and celebration of our heritage, culture and love of the land. To guide us in this work, we draw from the values found in our japanese american traditions and the spirit of aloha.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programs (including cultural festivals, statewide public programs, exhibitions and educational workshops are sponsored throughout the year to promote awareness in the japanese cultural heritage in hawaii and the traditional japanese cultural arts. Jcch's largest cultural festival is held at the beginning of each year. The new year's ohana festival attracts over 5,000 visitors to the center and brings together the community to showcase japanese dance, music, martial arts, cultural arts and food. Other programs include tanoshii hawaii (a cultural youth summer day camp), hoohana cohort program (a community leadership program targeting early career professionals), and tomodachi kibou for maui (program to engage, inspire and empower youth impacted by the lahaina wildfires).
$255,635 spent$125,269 earned by the program71% of program spendingThe tokioka heritage resource center provides public access to our special collections and archival documents related to the history of japanese in hawaii and serves as a valuable resource to researchers, students and families. The resource center also provides assistance to individuals researching their family histories, translation services of family registries and interpretation of japanese names.
$85,108 spent$37,200 earned by the program24% of program spendingThe historical and community galleries provide a better understanding of japanese american culture and history through the display of pictorial history, artifacts, videos and exhibits. The ellison onizukaremembrance exhibit in the historical gallery is a tribute to hawaii'sfirst astronaut, the collection of photos and nasa artifacts were transferred from storage in kona to the historical exhibition at jcch. The honouliuli education center, located in the community center, showcase jcch's work to preserve honouliuli and to feature historical artifacts and oral histories of former japanese americans interned during world war ii. An estimated 10,000 students, teachers and visitors from hawaii, continental u.s., and japan have passed through the historical gallery and the honouliuli education center.
$19,945 spent$10,480 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $360,688.
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 $15M to $14M (−9%).
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 6% · 2018 36% · 2019 13% · 2020 32% · 2021 217% · 2022 59% · 2023 68% · 2024 63% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
149% of JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Nathan Gyotoku
President & executive director
Board chair
Dirk Yoshizawa
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $42k → $137k.
4 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $35k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Aloha United Way Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII raised.
From the IRS filings of JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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 CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 35% · 2019 48% · 2020 18% · 2021 36% · 2022 29% · 2023 40% — 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
42% of JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII'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
75% of JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $396k on record.
- Department of the Interior$371k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$25k
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 CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII
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 Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
42% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
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 CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII: 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 CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII?
- JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $582,758 to it, the largest being TRADEWIND GROUP FOUNDATION ($86,726). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $582,758 in grants to JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII?
- TRADEWIND GROUP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $86,726 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 34 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