Nisei Veterans Committee

Analysis

Nisei Veterans Committee is a registered charity in United States, based in Seattle, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2025. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Nisei Veterans Committee reported income of $199k and spending of $231k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $139k to $199k (+43%), an average of +9.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 171%. Over the whole period it spent 130% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Nisei Veterans Committee sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile, and in the 51st percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include SSG Matthew a Pucino Memorial Foundation ($199k), Ascent Network ($199k) and Chinu V Chisdu Inc ($199k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.4m against liabilities of $2,200, net assets of $2.4m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.