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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA KENDO FEDERATION

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA KENDO FEDERATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$177k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$311k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Northern California Kendo Federation does

Mission

Promote and instruct in the japanese art of kendo.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. The organization provide city wide tournaments and competitionsopportunities to enhance their level of skills in the JapanesesKendo amongst other members in a competitive atmosphere.

    $28,039 spent
    20% of program spending
  2. The organization program involve training and providingseminars to accommodate the students, staff, instructorsin mastering the Japanese art of Kendo with a degree of integrity.

    $78,091 spent
    57% of program spending
  3. The organization hold fundraising events to encourageand attract more members to join the Kendo martial artorganizations.

    $30,980 spent
    23% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $137,110.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($110k) Expenses 100 ($105k) Net assets 100 ($145k)2018 Revenue 165 ($182k) Expenses 154 ($161k) Net assets 114 ($166k)2019 Revenue 109 ($119k) Expenses 92 ($96k) Net assets 130 ($189k)2020 Revenue 121 ($133k) Expenses 97 ($102k) Net assets 151 ($219k)2021 Revenue 54 ($60k) Expenses 36 ($37k) Net assets 166 ($242k)2022 Revenue 32 ($35k) Expenses 24 ($26k) Net assets 173 ($251k)2023 Revenue 100 ($109k) Expenses 73 ($77k) Net assets 195 ($284k)2024 Revenue 105 ($115k) Expenses 152 ($159k) Net assets 165 ($240k)2025 Revenue 144 ($158k) Expenses 114 ($120k) Net assets 191 ($278k)2026 Revenue 161 ($177k) Expenses 137 ($144k) Net assets 214 ($311k)
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Revenue (161)Expenses (137)Net assets (214)

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $284k to $240k (−16%).

$145k
$166k
$189k
$219k
$242k
$251k
$284k
$240k
$278k
$311k
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Total assets

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
$20k
’18
$23k
’19
$31k
’20
$22k
’21
$9k
’22
$33k
’23
−$44k
’24
$38k
’25
$33k
’26
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA KENDO FEDERATION?
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA KENDO FEDERATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NORTHERN CALIFORNIA KENDO FEDERATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to NORTHERN CALIFORNIA KENDO FEDERATION.
Who is the largest funder of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA KENDO FEDERATION?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORTHERN CALIFORNIA KENDO FEDERATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 1 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