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SAN JOSE TAIKO GROUP INC

EIN 94-2801727 SAN JOSE, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2023
$883,851
Expenses 2023
$875,594

Program services were 73.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A200
Classification
1000
Street
565 N 5TH 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 · 2023

Mission

San jose taiko teaches, performs, and expands the taiko art form. For more than 45 years, san jose taiko has crafted innovative performances and provided comprehensive educational programs, empowering diverse voices and educating across cultures to build a more accepting and engaged world.

Activities or mission (Part I)

San Jose Taiko teaches, performs, and expands the taiko art form.

  • Performances The Organizations Performing Company conducts dynamic presentations of SJTs unique style of contemporary taiko, highlighting its vast repertoire of original music and featuring innovative collaborations to provide a broad reach for 30,000 national audience members at over 120 venues in a typical year. Performance locations include art centers, universities, and community venues across the nation. Performance settings can include civic events, cultural festivals, and/or in-theatre concerts. Some tour performances include a 2-to-7-day residency. There was a moderate increase of program activity during the audit period, though only 80% of pre-pandemic numbers.

    Expenses $343,475 · Revenue $157,815

  • Training The Organization provides workshops and classes for taiko practitioners, and for students interested in developing their taiko drumming skills leading to the proliferation and advancement of the art form. In addition, the Organization conducts ongoing training for its company members to constantly better their technical and leadership skills. In sum, SJT training engages over 300 individuals in a typical year.

    Expenses $168,913 · Revenue $3,704

  • Education and outreach The Organization has an extensive outreach program for youth and adults, offering introductory workshops, ongoing classes, and contextual in-school assemblies focused on building creative expression, self-esteem, cultural pluralism, and group cooperation through physical and musical activity. The program reaches over 20,000 participants in a typical year. This program saw a return to pre-pandemic levels during the audit period.

    Expenses $131,541 · Revenue $114,035

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Francis Imperial

    Artistic Dir.

    Total calculated
    $93,634
    From this org
    $81,553
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,081
    Hours/week
    40

  • Wisa Uemura

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $85,129
    From this org
    $74,353
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,776
    Hours/week
    40

  • Lynda Won-Chung

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Atul Trivedi

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Ryan Komagome

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Jeremy Nishihara

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mari Ormiston

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dane So

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Daniel Sueyoshi

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Marie Yoshidome

    Board Member

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $883,851
    Expenses
    $875,594
    Contributions
    $588,744
    Grants paid
    $5,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,269,238
    Expenses
    $756,456
    Contributions
    $1,072,474
    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
    $751,284
    Expenses
    $691,955
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,500,430

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $960,119
    Expenses
    $520,178
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,402,857

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,002,342
    Expenses
    $535,879
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,042,891

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $541,003
    Expenses
    $616,752
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,505,755

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,133,541
    Expenses
    $574,909
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,585,205

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,133,541
    Expenses
    $574,909
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,585,205

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $701,273
    Expenses
    $481,666
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,023,540

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $483,530
    Expenses
    $529,898
    Assets (EOY)
    $807,275

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $505,162
    Expenses
    $536,310
    Assets (EOY)
    $846,052

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $507,862
    Expenses
    $536,310
    Assets (EOY)
    $848,752

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.