Japan Business Association of Seattle

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
934383257
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Bellevue, WA, USA
Phone
4256795120
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues

Reported finances

Revenue
$364,321
Expenses
$339,674
Assets
$214,156
Liabilities
$242,100

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mnabu Miroku (President)
  • Tomohiro Asano (Vice President)
  • Takeshi Ando (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Asami Tsuruta (Executive Dir.): $103,992 total reported compensation
  • Harry Nomoto (Administrative Assistant): $79,602 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Japan Business Association of Seattle Shunjukai aims to foster collaboration, provide support, and ensure representation for Japanese businesses and individuals in Washington State. Its mission includes supporting Japanese businesses through resource sharing, promoting community participation and networking, advocating for Japanese interests with a diverse membership, aligning with educational and cultural values, and ensuring ethical governance and financial responsibility as a nonprofit entity.

What it reported doing in 2025

The business and cultural program of the Japan Business Association of Seattle Shunjukai focuses on fostering collaboration and engagement among its members while promoting Japanese business and cultural values within Washington State. It achieves this through diverse membership categories to encourage participation, platforms for community and family engagement, support for Japanese initiatives like the Consulate-General of Japan and the Seattle Japanese School, transparent governance with member voting on key decisions, and events that promote dialogue, collaboration, and advocacy for Japanese interests.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 61
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 74
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 67.4%; rating input score 67
  • Program expense ratio: 71.6%; rating input score 72
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.8%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.13; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 54.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 67.4% of revenue deployed · 71.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $243K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $104K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.