Japan Business Association of Houston

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
741856989
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Houston, TX, US
Phone
281-493-1512
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$518,540
Expenses
$468,316
Assets
$843,718
Liabilities
$115,505

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

117 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TAKAJIRO ISHIKAWA (PRESIDENT)
  • SATOSHI HAMADA (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
  • ATSUKI KAWAKAMI (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • KENICHI ASANO (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • SATORU AKAMA (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • HIROSHI ONO (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • RISA MITSUHASHI (MEMBER)
  • SADAMI SUGIMOTO (MEMBER)
  • KENICHI KAWAZOE (MEMBER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To promote friendship, trade, and commerce between Japanese and American businesses, provide mutual aid among Japanese-affiliated companies in Houston, and operate the Japanese Language Supplementary School.

What it reported doing in 2024

Softball tournament:1. Annual softball tournament was held at shadow creek sports complex. Twenty teams including jbah members and non-members participated.2. Showing japan is a volunteer group to demonstrate japanese culture.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.7%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.8; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 116 of 116 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 117 people listed
  • Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
  • 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.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.