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JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE

EIN 94-1245885 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$2,874,027
Expenses 2024
$2,621,894

Program services were 65.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S80Z
Classification
1000
Street
1765 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).

Group exemption

The central organization of an IRS group exemption (group number 1645), covering 82 subordinate organizations. 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.

All 82 subordinates →

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE IS A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION WHOSE ONGOING MISSION IS TO SECURE AND MAINTAIN THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF JAPANESE AMERICANS AND ALL OTHERS WHO ARE VICTIMIZED BY INJUSTICE AND BIGOTRY. (CONTINUE ON SCHEDULE O). THE LEADERS AND MEMBERS OF THE JACL ALSO WORK TO PROMOTE CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND SOCIAL VALUES AND PRESERVE THE HERITAGE AND LEGACY OF THE JAPANESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE IS A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION WHOSE ONGOING MISSION IS TO SECURE AND MAINTAIN THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF JAPANESE AMERICANS AND ALL OTHERS WHO ARE VICTIMIZED BY INJUSTICE AND BIGOTRY. THE LEADERS AND MEMBERS OF THE JACL ALSO WORK TO PROMOTE CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL VALUES AND PRESERVE THE HERITAGE AND LEGACY OF THE JAPANESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY.

  • SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ADVOCACY PROGRAM: AS A NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION, JACL ENGAGES IN POLICY ADVOCACY AND PUBLIC EDUCATION TO PROTECT AND HIGHLIGHT THE RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS SUBJECT TO DISCRIMINATION. OUR PERSPECTIVE ON CIVIL RIGHTS IS SHAPED BY THE EXPERIENCE OF THE JAPANESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY HAVING BEEN SUBJECTED TO MASS INCARCERATION BY THE GOVERNMENT UNDER THE FALSE PRETENSE OF NATIONAL SECURITY, ONLY TO BE REVEALED MANY YEARS LATER TO BE ROOTED PURELY IN RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA. WE SEEK TO PROTECT THE LEGACY OF OUR COMMUNITY'S EXPERIENCE IN THE PROTECTION OF HISTORIC INCARCERATION SITES AND PROMOTING PUBLIC EDUCATION ON THE CORRELATION BETWEEN HISTORY AND CURRENT EVENTS. BECAUSE OF OUR HISTORY WE HAVE FOUGHT THE UNDERLYING HATE AND RACISM THAT LEADS TO THE COMMISSION OF HATE AND BIAS INCIDENTS, ESPECIALLY IN THE RECENT CLIMATE OF INCREASED ANTI-ASIAN HATE.

    Expenses $395,134

  • YOUTH, FELLOWSHIP, AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS: IN JACL'S COMMITMENT TO DEVELOPING FUTURE LEADERS JACL SUPPORTS THE NATIONAL YOUTH STUDENT COUNCIL, THE NATIONAL ORGANIZING BODY FOR OUR YOUTH LEADERS IN HIGH SCHOOL, COLLEGE, AND EARLY CAREERISTS. WE OPERATE THE NORMAN Y. MINETA AND DANIEL K. INOUYE FELLOWSHIPS TO GIVE RECENT GRADUATES AND YOUNG ADULTS EXPERIENCE WORKING IN WASHINGTON DC IN NON-PROFIT LEADERSHIP, PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION AND POLICY ANALYSIS AND ADVOCACY AT JACL AND THE MIKE MASAOKA FELLOWSHIP WHICH IS PLACED IN A CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE. OUR NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM PROVIDES SEVERAL THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF COMPETITIVE SCHOLARSHIPS TO UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE COLLEGE STUDENTS ANNUALLY.

    Expenses $223,765 · Grants $105,250

  • PACIFIC CITIZEN: THE PACIFIC CITIZEN IS THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE AND HAS BEEN IN PUBLICATION SINCE SEPTEMBER 1929. AS ONE OF THE LEADING ASIAN AMERICAN FOCUSED NEWS PUBLICATIONS, THE PACIFIC CITIZEN IS COMMITTED TO DELIVERING THE MOST INCISIVE COVERAGE OF IMPORTANT APIA STORIES THAT ARE OFTEN IGNORED BY OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS. THE PAPER CONTINUES TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY WITH ITS FOCUS ON IN DEPTH INVESTIGATIONS, ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS, AND LATE BREAKING STORIES. THE PACIFIC CITIZEN REACHES A NATIONAL CIRCULATION OF 10,000 READERS.

    Expenses $454,626 · Revenue $25,596

  • GRANTS TO CHAPTERS FOR PRESERVING LEGACY OF JAPANESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY, ADVOCACY INITIATIVES, MEMBER AND CHAPTER LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE AND ARTS PRESERVATION. THE ANNUAL CONVENTION BRINGS JACL MEMBERS AND CHAPTERS TOGETHER TO CONDUCT THE ORGANIZATION'S BUSINESS OF POLICY RESOLUTIONS AND CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS AMENDMENTS AND THE OPPORTUNITY FOR MEMBERSHIP TO HEAR DIRECTLY FROM THE BOARD AND STAFF ON THE STATE OF THE ORGANIZATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH WE WORK. FOR OVER 40 YEARS, THE JACL/OCA LEADERSHIP SUMMIT BRINGS APPROXIMATELY ONE DOZEN JACL MEMBERS TO WASHINGTON, DC ANNUALLY TO LEARN ABOUT THE ADVOCACY AND EDUCATION WORK DONE AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL TO TRANSFER TO THE LOCAL CHAPTER LEVEL. THE KAKEHASHI PROGRAM IS A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT TO SEND JAPANESE AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS TO JAPAN TO LEARN OF AND CONNECT WITH THEIR JAPANESE HERITAGE, FOSTERING A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR IDENTITY AS JAPANESE AMERICANS. ADMINISTRATIVE AND NON-PROGRAMMATIC FUNCTIONS OF THE ORGANIZATION INCLUDE MEMBERSHIP TRACKING AND MAINTENANCE, ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT, AND FUND DEVELOPMENT.

    Expenses $647,909 · Grants $26,464 · Revenue $99,083

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.

  • LARRY ODA

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CAROL KAWAMOTO VP FOR

    GENERAL OPERATIONS (THRU 7/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SEIA WATANABE

    VP FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GARY NAKAMURA

    VP FOR PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DOMINIQUE MASHBURN

    VP FOR 1000 CLUB

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JONATHAN OKOMOTO

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SHELDON ARAKAKI PACIFIC

    NORTHWEST DISTRICT GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MIKA CHAN NYSC YTH

    COUNCIL CHAIR (THRU 7/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CLAIRE INOUYE

    NY/SC YTH COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CAROL KAWASE NORTH CALIFORNIA

    WEST NEVADA DISTRICT GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ERIC LANGOWSKI

    MIDWEST DISTRICT GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LISA OLSEN

    INTERMOUNTAIN DISTRICT GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRIAN TSUKIMURA CENTRAL

    CALIFORNIA DISTRICT GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PAUL UYEHARA

    EASTERN DISTRICT GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RYAN YOSHIKAWA PACIFIC SW

    DIST. GOV (THRU 7/24); VP GEN OPS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • REMY KAGEYAMA

    NATIONAL YOUTH/STUDENT COUNCIL CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOSEPH GU

    PACIFIC SOUTHWEST DISTRICT GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID INOUE

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $130,207
    From this org
    $117,432
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,775
    Hours/week
    42

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
    $2,874,027
    Expenses
    $2,621,894
    Contributions
    $1,893,625
    Grants paid
    $131,714
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,456,287
    Expenses
    $3,152,283
    Contributions
    $1,139,686
    Grants paid
    $231,300
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,298,719
    Expenses
    $2,757,965
    Contributions
    $2,572,212
    Grants paid
    $87,299

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 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
    $3,518,723
    Expenses
    $1,965,735
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,547,786

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,333,933
    Expenses
    $2,060,029
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,574,242

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,190,598
    Expenses
    $1,660,339
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,928,276

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,380,172
    Expenses
    $1,701,708
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,304,920

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $853,593
    Expenses
    $1,742,198
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,733,349

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 2024

Tax period
1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024
Principal officer
Anne Chilcott
Mailing address
3952 Bucklin PlaceThousand Oaks CA 91360
Website
vcjacl.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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

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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 GROUP.

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