Long Beach Japanese Cultural Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953416426
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $117,268
- Expenses
- $86,849
- Assets
- $321,359
- Liabilities
- $9,170
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FLO KOJIMA (President)
- Anthony Tanaka (Vice President)
- Ole Nervik (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- FLO KOJIMA (President)
- Joanne Leivici (Treasurer)
- Atsuko Yomogida (Secretary)
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
The long beach japanese cultural center has served as the primary facility in long beach harbor area in furthering an understanding and appreciation of the japanese culture and the japanese american experience through its offerings of cultural and visual arts instruction, as well as japanese language classes, events and activities for the benefit of citizens of all ages, ethnicity and religious affliations.our mission is: to enhance the lives of the citizens of the long beach / south bay area through accessible, quality instruction in the various japanese cultural, visual, language and martial artsto serve as a cultural resource of civic and community events, thus adding to the already rich cultural diversity of the area.to preserve and further the timeliness cultural traditions which are our legacy by generations pastto collect, document and establish an archives library of historical artifacts, data, visual images and an oral history of the japanese american experience in the long bea
What it reported doing in 2025
To enhance the lives of the citizens of the long beach / south bay area through accessible, quality instruction in the various japanese cultural, visual, language and martial artsto serve as a cultural resource of civic and community events, thus adding to the already rich cultural diversity of the area.to preserve and further the timeliness cultural traditions which are our legacy by generations pastto collect, document and establish an archives library of historical artifacts, data, visual images and an oral history of the japanese american experience in the long beach and surrounding areas to serve as a unique educational resources.
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
- 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: 82
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.9%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.7; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.