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GARDENA VALLEY JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE

EIN 95-6197597 GARDENA, CA

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Revenue 2024
$1,217,469
Expenses 2024
$1,047,436

Program services were 42.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A74Z
Classification
2000
Street
1964 W 162ND ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Serve the needs of the local Japanese American community through educational, cultural, and social programs that share the Japanese and Japanese American cultural heritage.

  • Community service programs for seniors and youth.

    Expenses $447,384

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Alison Kochiyama

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $107,763
    From this org
    $107,763
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Michelle Hirano

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Taylor Weik

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Miles Akiyama

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Grant Nakaoka

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Alan Kita

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Richard Ames

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Lawrence Hada

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Juan Hernandez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Marilyn Tsuge

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Michael Murata

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Alexis Okihara

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Alvin Takamori

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Randall Fujimoto

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Gail Saito Doi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Kerilyn Kotani

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,217,469
    Expenses
    $1,047,436
    Contributions
    $348,352
    Grants paid
    $5,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,234,600
    Expenses
    $950,562
    Contributions
    $432,396
    Grants paid
    $9,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,024,221
    Expenses
    $810,549
    Contributions
    $421,613
    Grants paid
    $12,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,382,685
    Expenses
    $702,915
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,768,322
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $816,325
    Expenses
    $621,583
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,629,063
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $706,858
    Expenses
    $597,418
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,224,717
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $823,403
    Expenses
    $671,414
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,105,653
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $711,282
    Expenses
    $583,797
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,945,819
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $682,486
    Expenses
    $556,554
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,844,720
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $627,124
    Expenses
    $561,090
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,724,289
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $470,126
    Expenses
    $544,948
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,640,069
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $519,906
    Expenses
    $475,409
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,726,984
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $474,241
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,655,993

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • HAROLD'S CAR DONATION SERVICE INC.

    $37,040 raised

    2024 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $15,643 to charity

  • HAROLD'S CAR DONATION SERVICE INC.

    $38,780 raised

    2023 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $17,389 to charity

  • HAROLD'S CAR DONATION SERVICE INC.

    $21,615 raised

    2022 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $9,393 to charity

  • JINS EYEWEAR US INC.

    $6,885 in sales

    2022 Commercial Coventurer

    $6,885 to charity

  • HAROLD'S CAR DONATION SERVICE INC.

    $39,665 raised

    2021 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $17,549 to charity

  • JINS EYEWEAR US INC.

    $9,000 in sales

    2021 Commercial Coventurer

    $9,000 to charity

  • HAROLD'S CAR DONATION SERVICE INC.

    $30,885 raised

    2020 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $13,410 to charity

  • JINS EYEWEAR US INC.

    $3,000 in sales

    2020 Commercial Coventurer

    $3,000 to charity

  • HAROLD'S CAR DONATION SERVICE INC.

    $29,470 raised

    2019 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $12,500 to charity

  • JINS EYEWEAR US INC.

    $1,000 in sales

    2019 Commercial Coventurer

    $1,000 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.