Oregon · Nonprofit
OBON SOCIETY
OBON SOCIETY (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,278 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($28,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $96k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $87k
What Obon Society does
Mission
To encourage lasting peace between japan and the united states by reuniting japanese relatives with the belongings of their family members who went missing during world war ii through the discovery, identification, and return of japanese war flags to their japanese families. In addition to reuniting families with their loved one's possession, Obon Society engages in educational activites to advance peace and understanding.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Our accomplishments this year include:486 wartime personal items received, analyzed, and cataloged for family research 62 personal items successfully returned to families in japana formal transfer ceremony was held at the evergreen aviation & space museum, where 129 wartime personal postcards and letters were entrusted to Obon Society.board member bethany glenn visited vfw post 7824 to retrieve a framed yosegaki hinomaru that had been stored behind a file cabinet for years. The post chose to repatriate the flag to japan.mr toshiei mizuochi, chairman of nippon izokukai, visited Obon Society in both portland and astoria. These meetings reaffirmed our shared commitment to continued cooperation and mutual support.we joined ten japanese bereaved families in paying respects at arlington national cemetery for the 80th anniversary commemoration in washington dc marking the end of world war ii.
$81,483 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $81,483.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $101k to $45k (−56%).
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.
100% of OBON SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $200 → $118.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 OBON SOCIETY’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
OBON SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
53% 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 OBON SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 71% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — 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
53% of OBON SOCIETY'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 $26k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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
OBON SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like OBON SOCIETY
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 OBON SOCIETY: 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 OBON SOCIETY?
- OBON SOCIETY (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,278 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($28,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OBON SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $54,278 in grants to OBON SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OBON SOCIETY?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $28,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OBON SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2019–2025), 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