JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A500

Classification

1000

Street

100 N CENTRAL AVE

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

• EXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONSJANM EXTENDED THE POPULAR EXHIBITION GIANT ROBOT BIENNALE 5, WHICH CELEBRATED ASIAN AMERICAN POP CULTURE AND ART, THROUGH THE FALL. JANM'S COMMITMENT TO PRESERVING, HONORING, AND ILLUMINATING THE STORIES OF THE WORLD WAR II INCARCERATION WAS EXEMPLIFIED IN CONTESTED HISTORIES: PRESERVING AND SHARING A COMMUNITY COLLECTION, WHICH REVEALED NEW, CROWDSOURCED RESEARCH ABOUT THE IMPORTANT EATON COLLECTION OF ART AND ARTIFACTS MADE IN AMERICA'S CONCENTRATION CAMPS. TWO POP-UP EXHIBITIONS CELEBRATED JANM'S LITTLE TOKYO COMMUNITY: CELEBRATING LITTLE TOKYO AT 140 YEARS HIGHLIGHTED THE NEIGHBORHOOD'S HISTORY THROUGH ITEMS FROM JANM'S COLLECTION, WHILE MARIO GERSHOM REYES: OBRAS DE LUZ (WORKS OF LIGHT) HONORED THE COMMUNITY-BASED WORK OF THE BELOVED RAFU SHIMPO PHOTOGRAPHER. JANM'S NATIONALLY TOURING EXHIBITION PICTURES OF BELONGING, WHICH INVITES VIEWERS TO REDISCOVER THE WORK OF THREE TRAILBLAZING WOMEN - MIKI HAYAKAWA, HISAKO HIBI, AND MINE OKUBO - CONTINUED TO THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM, WHERE IT WAS MET WITH CRITICAL ACCLAIM AND SOME 800,000 VISITORS. THE JANM-ORGANIZED EXHIBITION JAPANESE AMERICAN HISTORY AND ART FROM JANM'S COLLECTION TRAVELED TO THE FURUKAWA ART MUSEUM AND THE NAGOYA CITY CIVIC RECEPTION HOUSE IN JAPAN.JANM'S PERMANENT COLLECTION OF SOME 160,000 OBJECTS CONTINUED TO GROW WITH THE ACQUISITION OF SEVENTY-NINE COLLECTIONS IN FY2025, THANKS TO THE GENEROSITY OF OUR DONORS. HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDED NA OMI SHINTANI'S PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE, 2014, A POWERFUL SCULPTURE OF A FLAG MADE FROM BARBED WIRE AND WOOD ORIGINALLY FROM BARRACKS AT TULE LAKE; THE "ENEMY ALIEN JACKET" ISSUED TO ITARU INA UPON HIS ARRIVAL AT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE INTERNMENT CAMP AT FT. LINCOLN IN BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA; AND A 1970S NATIONAL RICE-O-MAT MODEL SR10E RICE COOKER THAT REPRESENTS THE ARRIVAL OF JAPANESE PRODUCTS AND THE EVOLUTION OF JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD. THESE WORKS WILL BE FEATURED IN JANM'S NEW CORE EXHIBITION. OTHER WORKS TO BE FEATURED IN THE CORE EXHIBITION LIKE THE 1938 MONTEREY JACL FLAG AND THE HEART MOUNTAIN BARRACK, UNDERWENT MAJOR CONSERVATION EFFORTS THIS YEAR.THE IREICHO NATIONAL TOUR LAUNCHED AT THE US NAVY MEMORIAL VISITOR CENTER AND THE SMITHSONIAN ON THE DAY OF REMEMBRANCE, AND BROUGHT THE MOVING MONUMENT THAT IS THE BOOK OF NAMES TO MANZANAR, AMACHE, JEROME-ROHWER, AND THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA IN FY2025.

  Expenses $5,122,193 · Revenue $205,117

• EDUCATIONAFTER CONCLUDING THE FIRST HALF OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR WITH SCHOOL CHILDREN VISITING JANM IN-PERSON BEFORE IT CLOSED FOR RENOVATION, JANM'S EDUCATION TEAM TURNED TO VIRTUAL VISITS AND PILOTED A NEW, IN-SCHOOL PROGRAM THAT BROUGHT LESSONS OF JAPANESE AMERICAN HISTORY TO MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT CLASSROOMS AND ASSEMBLIES, OFTEN REACHING ENTIRE GRADES, IN SOME CASES, THE ENTIRE SCHOOL IN ONE DAY. THE MUSEUM REACHED 8,912 STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS IN 28 STATES IN FY2025. IN MAY 2025, THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES FUNDING FOR JANM'S ANNUAL LANDMARKS OF AMERICAN HISTORY TEACHER WORKSHOPS WAS TERMINATED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY. BUT DISAPPOINTMENT SOON CHANGED TO ELATION AS HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY STEPPED UP WITH DONATIONS TO BRING TEACHERS FROM ACROSS THE US TO JANM. THE SIXTY-FOUR TEACHERS ATTENDING THE WORKSHOPS IN FY2025 MET CAMP SURVIVORS AND TOURED LITTLE TOKYO AND MANZANAR, BRINGING BACK EXPERIENCES THAT WILL COLLECTIVELY REACH THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTY EVERY YEAR.

  Expenses $1,887,452

• PUBLIC PROGRAMS, MARKETING, MEMBERSHIP AND COMMUNICATIONSJANM'S YEAR OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS RANGED FROM JANM BOOK CLUB EVENTS WITH AUTHORS LIKE GEORGE TAKEI AND GIANT ROBOT'S ERIC NAKAMURA TO COMMUNITY PROGRAMS CELEBRATING THE MANZANAR BASEBALL PROJECT, MUSICIAN JUNE KURAMOTO, AND EARTH DAY. JANM ALSO CELEBRATED SUMMER AND THE NEW YEAR WITH MORE THAN 6,300 PEOPLE AT THE MUSEUM'S FREE NATSUMATSURI AND OSHOGATSU FAMILY FESTIVALS. THE PROGRAM HONORING COMMON GROUND GAVE A MEANINGFUL FAREWELL TO THE CORE EXHIBITION, INVITING THE COMMUNITY TO SHARE THEIR STORIES. THE DEMOCRACY CENTER SERVED AS A VOTING CENTER FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS NOVEMBER, HOSTED THE SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL CONVERSATION ON RACE, AND PRESENTED A POP-UP OF MARK MOTHERSBAUGH'S AND BEATIE WOLFE'S PROJECT POSTCARDS FOR DEMOCRACY. THE SMITHSONIAN'S LONNIE G. BUNCH III SPOKE AT THE INAUGURAL IRENE HIRANO INOUYE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE - A PRESCIENT CONVERSATION THAT ADDRESSED THREATS FACING US MUSEUMS. FOR OUR FRAGILE DEMOCRACY: THE ROLE OF STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL IN UPHOLDING THE LAW IN TIMES OF CRISIS, ROB BONTA, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AND OTHER EXPERTS DISCUSSED LEGAL STRATEGIES TO COUNTER ATTACKS ON CIVIL LIBERTIES. IN JULY 2024, THE DEMOCRACY CENTER WELCOMED THE INAUGURAL EIGHT RECIPIENTS OF THE WATANABE DEMOCRACY FELLOWSHIP, WHICH ADVANCES GLOBAL DEMOCRACY THROUGH A STRONG PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES, TO LOS ANGELES AND WASHINGTON, DC. JANM'S WATASE MEDIA ARTS CENTER (MAC) FURTHER EXTENDS JANM'S NATIONAL REACH THROUGH FILM. THIRD ACT, MAC DIRECTOR TADASHI NAKAMURA'S MOVING DOCUMENTARY, PREMIERED AS AN OFFICIAL SELECTION OF THE 2025 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. THE MAC AND PBS SOCAL PRODUCTION NOBUKO MIYAMOTO: A SONG IN MOVEMENT HAD ITS BROADCAST PREMIERE IN OCTOBER AND WON THE SPIRIT AWARD AT THE SILICON VALLEY ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL AND THE AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE AT THE BOSTON ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL.

  Expenses $1,472,752 · Revenue $253,697

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

The first 25 listed. 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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $12,194,816

  Expenses

  $12,445,967

  Contributions

  $9,898,702

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $20,731,861

  Expenses

  $13,497,548

  Contributions

  $18,688,295

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $13,814,782

  Expenses

  $12,113,288

  Contributions

  $11,620,180

  Grants paid

  $0

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

  $8,326,332

  Expenses

  $9,318,077

  Assets (EOY)

  $64,155,556

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $25,148,360

  Expenses

  $7,384,327

  Assets (EOY)

  $69,187,998

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,961,741

  Expenses

  $7,029,751

  Assets (EOY)

  $50,702,339

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,293,840

  Expenses

  $7,540,240

  Assets (EOY)

  $49,402,192

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,280,255

  Expenses

  $7,180,190

  Assets (EOY)

  $49,913,568

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,280,255

  Expenses

  $7,180,190

  Assets (EOY)

  $49,913,568

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,569,992

  Expenses

  $6,296,885

  Assets (EOY)

  $51,144,346

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,290,855

  Expenses

  $6,312,071

  Assets (EOY)

  $50,662,586

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,065,826

  Expenses

  $6,896,084

  Assets (EOY)

  $53,842,510

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $5,394,438

  Assets (EOY)

  $54,979,906

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

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $9,405,000

  2023 · ARTS AND CULTURE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $1,534,549

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $248,036

  2024 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $138,200

  2024 · EDUCATION

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $128,575

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

  $115,273

  2023 · SUBAWARD

• CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $106,000

  2022 · ARTS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $101,895

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $101,250

  2024 · ARTS, CULTURE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $83,395

  2022 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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.

  $10,220 raised

  2024 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $5,215 to charity

• HAROLD'S CAR DONATION SERVICE INC.

  $25,560 raised

  2023 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $13,692 to charity

• HAROLD'S CAR DONATION SERVICE INC.

  $40,660 raised

  2022 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $22,919 to charity

• HAROLD'S CAR DONATION SERVICE INC.

  $32,450 raised

  2021 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $17,457 to charity

• HAROLD'S CAR DONATION SERVICE INC.

  $26,995 raised

  2020 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $14,894 to charity

• HAROLD'S CAR DONATION SERVICE INC.

  $15,680 raised

  2019 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $8,037 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.

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