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JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE

EIN 94-6102626 MERCED, CA

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Revenue 2024
$1,470
Expenses 2024
$1,379

Program services were 0.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
3144 G ST STE 125 PMB 158

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).

Group exemption

A subordinate covered by the group exemption of JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE (EIN 94-1245885). matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2024

Primary exempt purpose

Education. The mission of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) is to secure and maintain the civil rights of Americans of Japanese ancestry and all others who are victimized by injustice and bigotry. The primary weapon in this endeavor is a program of education to forward the high purposes of American citizenship and ideals; To promote, encourage, and foster a feeling of good fellowship, friendship and goodwill among all peoples; To promote cultural, educational and social values, and to preserve the heritage and legacy of the Japanese American community.

  • Our co-presidents and directors maintained visibility in the community to carry on our mission to educate the public about the history of the Japanese-Americans and their struggle for civil rights against racism and discrimination.

  • In 2003, our local chapter published a book about the local history of the immigrant Japanese and their native-born children titled Japanese Americans of Merced County, A Photographic Journal, 1906 to 1960. This project was partially funded by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program administered by the California State Library. We keep an inventory of these books to resupply our local Merced County Historical Museum and/or local libraries, to educate the public about the history of the local Japanese-American experience.

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.

  • Sheryl Okuye Sauter

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Patti Kishi

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steve Teranishi

    Past President/Interim Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $1,470
    Expenses
    $1,379
    Contributions
    $650
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,907
    Expenses
    $2,406
    Contributions
    $250
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,295
    Expenses
    $3,035
    Contributions
    $500
    Grants paid
    $250

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $475
    Expenses
    $3,954
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,889
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $4,522
    Expenses
    $1,930
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,465
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $4,345
    Expenses
    $5,696
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,772
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $8,023
    Expenses
    $9,228
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,397
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $6,155
    Expenses
    $17,735
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,123
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $11,110
    Expenses
    $17,735
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,703
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $1,758
    Expenses
    $9,378
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,292
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $4,872
    Expenses
    $3,758
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,089
  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $6,143
    Expenses
    $6,143
    Assets (EOY)
    $48,109
  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $25,380
    Expenses
    $4,139
    Assets (EOY)
    $48,961

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2008

Tax period
1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008
Principal officer
Steve Teranishi
Mailing address
1947 Sage CourtMerced CA 95340
Doing business as
Livingston-Merced Chapter

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.