Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL
NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,125,075 to it, the largest being Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc ($660,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Humanities Council of Washington DClocalportfolio match
- Biotechnology Innovation Organizationshared funders
- Jtb Cultural Exchange Corporationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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: 2018 9% · 2019 9% · 2020 30% · 2021 42% · 2022 34% · 2023 33% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL’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. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $237k → $121k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL’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
NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 89% · 2019 90% · 2020 42% · 2021 42% · 2022 24% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“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
57% of NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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 NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Humanities Council of Washington DClocalportfolio matchDC · funds 191 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Biotechnology Innovation Organizationshared fundersDC · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- Jtb Cultural Exchange Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States - Japan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nakajima Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Oki Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Henri & Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Margaret and Raymond Chang Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- City First Enterprises InclocalDC · funds 1035 organizations near you
- Downtown Business Improvement District CorporationlocalDC · funds 117 organizations near you
- Chc Creating Healthier Communitiesshared fundersVA · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL?
- NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,125,075 to it, the largest being Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc ($660,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,125,075 in grants to NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL?
- Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $660,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing