Collaborative Cataloging Japan
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473235939
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 9174746890
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,128
- Expenses
- $70,803
- Assets
- $76,626
- Liabilities
- $5,770
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ann Adachi-Tasch (Executive Director and President, Collaborative Cataloging Japan)
People named in this filing
- Ann Adachi-Tasch (Executive Director and President, Collaborative Cataloging Japan)
- Jay Levenson (Board Member, CCJ)
- Miwako Tezuka (Secretary, CCJ)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Collaborative cataloging japan (ccj) is an international, 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, documenting, and disseminating the legacy of japanese experimental moving image made in 1950s-1980s, in order to enable their appreciation by a wider audience. Ccj aims to strengthen the supporting ecology for preservation and dissemination by offering public events, research and preservation initiatives, and distribution of information of works on digital platform. Without this effort, this unique sector of japanese cultural heritage, which historically has been underrepresented and unsupported, would remain available to only a very few. Buried in artists' studios or independent archives, many works are in danger of literal disappearance as film and video mediums continue.
What it reported doing in 2025
Screenings and Exhibitions - 2025 Programs include: December Members' Viewing: Haruka Doi Dec 1, 2025 - Jan 1, 2026 Looking for an Angel (1999) at Lightbox Film Center Nov 19, 2025 Bye Bye Love (1974) at Lightbox Film Center Nov 16, 2025 - Nov 16, 2025 Tone Glow Presents Takashi Ito's DISTANT VOICES (2024) at Asian Arts Initiative Nov 15, 2025 November Members Viewing: Hikaru Suzuki Nov 1, 2025 - Dec 1, 2025 October Members Viewing: Yoji Kuri Part 3 (Art, Life and Opinions) Oct 1, 2025 - Nov 1, 2025 September Members Viewing: Yoji Kuri Part 2 (Television Works) Sep 1, 2025 - Oct 1, 2025 August Members Viewing: Yoji Kuri Part 1 (Animation) Aug 1, 2025 - Sep 1, 2025 July Members' Viewing: Tamio Suenaga Jul 1, 2025 - Aug 1, 2025 June Members' Viewing: Nihon Gen'yasai Sanrizuka Jun 1, 2025 - Jul 1, 2025 May Members' Viewing: Kaori Oda May 1, 2025 - Jun 1, 2025 Free screening: Yoji Kuri's "Human Zoo" (1962) Apr 17, 2025 - May 5, 2025 April Members' Viewing: Voyant Cinematheque Apr 8, 2025 - May 15, 2025 March Members' Viewing: Isao Kota Part 2 Mar 1, 2025 - Apr 8, 2025 February Members' Viewing: Isao Kota Part 1 Feb 1, 2025 - Mar 1, 2025 January Members' Viewing: Masanori Oe & Newsreel Jan 1, 2025 - Feb 1, 2025
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 24.8%; rating input score 25
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -33.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.08; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 49.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 33% of revenue deployed · 24.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $18K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.