Arizona · Nonprofit
Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix Inc
Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,601 to it, the largest being SIX TREE FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix Inc does
Mission
Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix provides a peaceful and beautiful green space in the city center and promotes Japanese arts and culture through hands on workshops, cultural events, and wellness activities. The garden regularly engages with the local community and brings together craftsmen locally and from Japan to foster cultural exchange. Continued on Schedule O.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The garden offered educational hands-on workshops in traditional Japanese arts, including tea ceremony, ikebana, origami, calligraphy, and bonsai, as well as wellness activities like moon meditation, martial arts, and forest bathing meditations. A total of 170 workshops were held, serving approximately 800 participants. Participant feedback indicated high satisfaction and strong educational outcomes. Workshops provided both community enrichment and revenue through registration fees.
$319,310 spent$299,751 earned by the program21% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$1,175,269 spent$1,537,990 earned by the program79% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,494,579.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.0M to $2.6M (+26%).
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: 2021 7% · 2022 6% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Ben Schrepf
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $10k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Friendship Garden of Phoenix Inc’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 Friendship Garden of Phoenix Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 Friendship Garden of Phoenix Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 84% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix Inc draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
Against its field
Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Organizations like Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix Inc
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Friendship Garden of Phoenix Inc: 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 Friendship Garden of Phoenix Inc?
- Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,601 to it, the largest being SIX TREE FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $43,601 in grants to Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix Inc?
- SIX TREE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 6 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