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NIHONMACHI LITTLE FRIENDS

EIN 94-2325686 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$2,937,328
Expenses 2024
$2,537,457

Program services were 96.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P33Z
Classification
0000
Street
1830 SUTTER 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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Nihonmachi Little Friends (NLF) is a Japanese bilingual multicultural & educational childcare organization.

  • Preschool - continues to be the focus of the organization with 66 students and 16 staffmembers. We operate year-round and are open 246 days of the year. Our biggest expense is our salaries and benefits for staff. We are able to sustain our programming through private tuition fees, ELFA vouchers, scholarships from Foundations, fundraising events, and the Early Educators Salary Support Grant funded through the city of San Francisco.

    Expenses $2,132,353

  • After-School - with 64 students enrolled in the program and 6 staff members we have returned our enrollment numbers to pre-covid times. We follow the SFUSD calendar. Our biggest expense is our salaries and benefits for staff. We are able to sustain our programming through private tuition fees, ELFA vouchers, scholarships from Foundations, fundraising events, and leasing the space for a very reasonable price.

    Expenses $308,645

  • Capital Campaign - We are building our fundraising efforts through the Sushi Social, Sake Tasting Event, and other campaigns to raise money to pay off our loan. In addition, we are raising funds to build awareness of the lssei women who created, funded, and established the space.

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.

  • Dawn Mokuau

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $151,019
    From this org
    $151,019
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,019
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $151,019
  • Sahra Sellers

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kevin Toda

    Co-Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kevin Pagano

    Co-Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kanako Wong

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Thaomy Beltran

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Marina Inoue

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jessica Lee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Natsumi Makiyama

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tiffanie Muraoka

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Adrienne Shiozaki-Woo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mika Stjernvall

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Clint Taura

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ken Takeda

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $2,937,328
    Expenses
    $2,537,457
    Contributions
    $2,006,185
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,842,354
    Expenses
    $2,537,391
    Contributions
    $1,667,238
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,707,445
    Expenses
    $2,663,345
    Contributions
    $1,593,937
    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

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,176,206
    Expenses
    $2,072,937
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,923,252
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,984,242
    Expenses
    $1,919,935
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,214,814
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,077,406
    Expenses
    $2,097,564
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,227,930
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,336,036
    Expenses
    $2,115,882
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,055,461
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,310,816
    Expenses
    $2,060,776
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,895,569
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,368,568
    Expenses
    $2,069,901
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,964,781

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

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

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.