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YO MEDIA

YO MEDIA (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,700 to it, the largest being KISHIMOTO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,700). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$154k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$4k
Net assets
$124k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Yo Media does

Mission

Cultural education and community service for the Japanese American community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. YO CAMP - Summer camp program for kids providing Asian American cultural education for teens and community service for adults.

    $0 spent
  2. YO RESIDENCY - A program for young adults to build community explore purpose and explore how career and community can grow side by side.

    $0 spent
  3. INTERCOLLEGIATE NIKKEI COUNCIL - Community service activities for college students in Southern California.

    $0 spent

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($58k) Expenses 100 ($55k) Net assets 100 ($18k)2023 Revenue 181 ($105k) Expenses 150 ($82k) Net assets 227 ($40k)2024 Revenue 286 ($166k) Expenses 262 ($144k) Net assets 352 ($63k)2025 Revenue 265 ($154k) Expenses 169 ($93k) Net assets 695 ($124k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (265)Expenses (169)Net assets (695)Peer revenue range

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 $63k to $124k (+98%).

$18k
$40k
$63k
$124k
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

15% of YO MEDIA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’22
$23k
’23
$22k
’24
$61k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Craig Ishii

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of YO MEDIA’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.

Where its funders are

YO MEDIA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

WA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

YO MEDIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin40% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)38% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

05Profile & governance

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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YO MEDIA: 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 YO MEDIA?
YO MEDIA (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,700 to it, the largest being KISHIMOTO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,700). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does YO MEDIA have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,700 in grants to YO MEDIA.
Who is the largest funder of YO MEDIA?
KISHIMOTO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YO MEDIA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), 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