Japanese American Optimist Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954351760
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2136260441
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,181
- Expenses
- $1,050
- Assets
- $192,647
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEITH INATOMI (President)
People named in this filing
- KEITH INATOMI (President)
- RUSSEL FUJII (Secretary)
- GERALD FUKUI (Treasurer)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Japanese american optimist club (jao)coordinates many programs and events geared toward youth, such as the jao girls basketball program, career day, pen pal program, oratorical and essay contests, youth appreciation, halloween and christmas parties, ets. Jao also recognizes community members through our respect for law program, teachers appreciation, and hosts fundraisers such as the jao luau and jao bingo.
What it reported doing in 2024
Jao girls basketball program and teachers appreciation day.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.1%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.1%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 183.47; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.1% of revenue deployed · 0.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.