The San Francisco Japantown Foundation

Analysis

The San Francisco Japantown Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in San Francisco, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, The San Francisco Japantown Foundation reported income of $150k and spending of $214k, spending 143% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $178k to $150k (-16%), an average of -4.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 81%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The San Francisco Japantown Foundation sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile, and in the 49th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bryn Mawr Book Sale in Cambridge Inc ($150k), Menno-Haven Auxiliary Inc ($150k) and Alexis Foundation ($149k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.1m.