- Revenue 2024
- $199,017
- Expenses 2024
- $212,433
Program services were 96.2% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- Q21
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 122842
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
Primary exempt purpose
To promote international friendship, peace, and cross-cultural understanding through educational programs, youth engagement, public diplomacy, and cultural exchange. The organization achieves its mission by developing afterschool enrichment programs, facilitating student-led global initiatives, hosting cultural festivals and civic receptions, and fostering people-to-people connections between San Diego and its sister cities, particularly Yokohama, Japan.
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Connect the World Afterschool Program ($155,717.83 expenses | $12,410 grant) Delivered Japanese language and cultural enrichment classes at Crown Point Junior Music Academy, Doyle Elementary, and partner campuses, serving over 75 students. Activities included bilingual instruction, intercultural projects, and virtual exchanges with sister schools in Yokohama. Covered payroll, classroom rentals, supplies, insurance, and digital subscriptions. The program builds global citizenship and youth leadership through cross-cultural learning.
Expenses $155,718 · Grants $12,410
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Youth & Educational Leadership Programs (Meraki / SD-WISH) ($36,382 expenses | $12,410 grant) Included the Mission Bay High School Jazz Preservationists goodwill tour to Yokohama, the Kanazawa High School exchange visit to San Diego, the Meraki Concert Series Work-Study Program, and SD-WISHs Peace & Humanity Day. Students gained practical experience in music, event management, and cultural diplomacy while promoting peace, collaboration, and mutual understanding.
Expenses $36,382 · Grants $12,410
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Educational Exchange & Teacher Programs ($12,273.17 expenses | $0 grants) Supported bilateral school and teacher exchanges between San Diego and Yokohama, including classroom visits, virtual collaborations, and professional development workshops. Strengthened international educational partnerships and deepened intercultural understanding among educators and students.
Expenses $12,273
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.
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Steven Sigafus
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Edward Park
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Kimiko Sigafus
Treasurer / Corresponding Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Cynthia Le
Program Director
- Total calculated
- $36,123
- Compensation
- $33,476
- Benefit plans
- $2,647
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 20
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Frederic Hewett
Recording Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tamara Pasana
Site Director
- Total calculated
- $27,762
- Compensation
- $26,694
- Benefit plans
- $1,068
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 20
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $199,017
- Expenses
- $212,433
- Contributions
- $24,820
- Grants paid
- not reported
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2023
- Revenue
- $189,317
- Expenses
- $170,954
- Contributions
- $26,944
- Grants paid
- $1,245
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022
- Tax period
- 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023
- Principal officer
- Steven James Sigafus
- Mailing address
- PO Box 122842SAN DIEGO CA 92112
- Website
- Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 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
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
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$24,820
2024
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
- Exemption revoked 15 November 2012, reinstated 15 November 2012.
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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.