THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF JAPANESE ANIMATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A20

Classification

2000

Street

19675 TEMESCAL CANYON RD

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 · 2025

• THE ORGANIZATION RECEIVES ITS REVENUES FROM REGISTRATION FEES COLLECTED TO ENTER THE EVENTS, FEES PAID BY EXHIBITORS FOR BOOTH RENTALS AT THE EVENTS, ARTISTS' ALLEY WHERE ASPIRING ANIME ARTISTS CAN EXHIBIT THEIR WORK, SPONSORSHIPS FROM ANIME INDUSTRY AND OTHER BUSINESSES THAT BENEFIT FROM THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT DIRECTLY WITH ANIME FANS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, LICENSING, AND FROM OTHER CONCERTS AND PROGRAMS. WITH EACH UNIQUE EVENT THE ORGANIZATION PRODUCES, THE PURPOSE AIMS TO PROMOTE, CELEBRATE, AND EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT JAPANESE ANIMATION AND POP CULTURE.THE ORGANIZATION HAS COMMITTED THE MAJORITY OF ITS TIME AND RESOURCES, INCLUDING, IN RECENT YEARS, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF HOURS FROM APPROXIMATELY 800 VOLUNTEERS, TO PLANNING, PREPARING FOR, AND HOSTING ANIME EXPO ("AX"). THIS FOUR-DAY CONVENTION IS HELD ANNUALLY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND INCLUDES HUNDREDS OF HOURS OF EDUCATIONAL, ARTISTIC, CULTURAL, AND COMMUNITY EVENTS DESIGNED TO ALLOW MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC, FANS OF ANIME, AND MEMBERS OF THE ANIME INDUSTRY TO CELEBRATE AND LEARN ABOUT JAPANESE ANIMATION AND POPULAR CULTURE. SINCE 2004, AX HAS BEEN THE LARGEST ANIME CONVENTION IN NORTH AMERICA, WITH MORE THAN 100,000 ATTENDEES OVER THE FOUR DAYS OF EVENTS.STARTING 2022, THE ORGANIZATION PRODUCED ANIME EXPO CHIBI ("AXC") IN ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA. THIS CONVENTION IS A SMALLER-SCALE CONVENTION THAT WILL AFFORD FANS AN ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE IN THE AWARENESS AND APPRECIATION OF JAPANESE ANIMATION AND POPULAR CULTURE. THE EVENT SERVES AS A MARKETPLACE SHOWCASING THE EXHIBIT HALL AND ARTIST ALLEY.

  Expenses $20,210,889 · Grants $123,617 · Revenue $26,302,529

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $27,464,935

  Expenses

  $22,917,796

  Contributions

  $163

  Grants paid

  $123,617

• 2024

  Revenue

  $24,711,778

  Expenses

  $19,053,130

  Contributions

  $1,883

  Grants paid

  $28,447

• 2023

  Revenue

  $26,802,086

  Expenses

  $17,999,438

  Contributions

  $210

  Grants paid

  $40,559

• 2022

  Revenue

  $28,379,362

  Expenses

  $16,020,776

  Contributions

  $7,930,841

  Grants paid

  $27,623

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

  $9,492,860

  Expenses

  $3,581,758

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,619,220

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $125,090

  Expenses

  $5,298,649

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,666,612

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2019

Tax period

1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019

Principal officer

Raymond Chiang

Mailing address

1522 Brookhollow Drive Suite 1Santa Ana CA 92705

Website

www.SPJA.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 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

• CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - WILDFIRE RECOVERY FUND DONATION

  $75,168

  2025 · GIVE BACK TO HELP COMMUNITY REBUILD

• KIZUNA LITTLE TOKYO

  $40,559

  2023 · FOR JAPANESE CULTURAL AND INTERGENERATIONAL PROGRAMS AVAILABLE TO THE COMMUNITY

• NPO ANIMATOR SUPPORTS INC

  $35,949

  2025 · GIVE BACK TO HELP COMMUNITY

• KIZUNA LITTLE TOKYO

  $28,447

  2024 · FOR JAPANESE CULTURAL AND INTERGENERATIONAL PROGRAMS AVAILABLE TO THE COMMUNITY

• JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL & COMMUNITY CENTER

  $27,623

  2022 · FOR JAPANESE CULTURAL AND INTERGENERATIONAL PROGRAMS AVAILABLE TO THE COMMUNITY

• LAFD FOUNDATION - LAFD WILDFIRE EMERGENCY FUNDING ALERT

  $10,290

  2025 · GIVE BACK TO LOCAL COMMUNITY - FIRST RESPONDERS

Where these grants went next →

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.

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.

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