Arizona · Nonprofit
YUME JAPANESE GARDENS OF TUCSON
YUME JAPANESE GARDENS OF TUCSON (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,964 to it, the largest being Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona ($9,958). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $151k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson does
Mission
The organizations primary exempt purpose is to advance public education and cultural awareness by presenting and preserving japanese culture and heritage. This is accomplished through the development and maintenance of japanese garden landscapes, the production of traditional festivals, ceremonies, and performing arts, as well as the presentation of museum and gallery exhibitions. The organization also conducts educational workshops and classes for the general public. In addition, it provides a public green space that promotes cultural understanding, personal enrichment, and community well-being in the tucson area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Operated public japanese gardens and museum exhibits educating visitors on japanese garden design, aesthetics, and culture. Served approx 1200 visitors.
$37,303 spent78% of program spendingHeld japanese cultural events, workshops, demonstrations, and classes for public education and cultural appreciation. Served approx 200 participants.
$10,539 spent22% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,842.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $3k to $31k (+1052%).
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.
48% of YUME JAPANESE GARDENS OF TUCSON’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Patricia Deridder
President & executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 YUME JAPANESE GARDENS OF TUCSON’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
YUME JAPANESE GARDENS OF TUCSON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 YUME JAPANESE GARDENS OF TUCSON.
“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
100% of YUME JAPANESE GARDENS OF TUCSON's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6 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.
Against its field
YUME JAPANESE GARDENS OF TUCSON runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like YUME JAPANESE GARDENS OF TUCSON
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In Arizona
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YUME JAPANESE GARDENS OF TUCSON?
- YUME JAPANESE GARDENS OF TUCSON (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,964 to it, the largest being Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona ($9,958). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YUME JAPANESE GARDENS OF TUCSON have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $9,964 in grants to YUME JAPANESE GARDENS OF TUCSON.
- Who is the largest funder of YUME JAPANESE GARDENS OF TUCSON?
- Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona is the largest funder on record, with $9,958 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YUME JAPANESE GARDENS OF TUCSON 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 2 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