Long Island Japanese Culture Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473799247
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Roslyn Heights, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5165514907
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $198,540
- Expenses
- $196,123
- Assets
- $18,097
- Liabilities
- $214,920
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Toyomi Sobue (President)
People named in this filing
- Toyomi Sobue (President)
- Kenta G Shibahara (Treasurer)
- Miho Shirai (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
To promote and preserve Japanese culture and heritage by providing educational programs, cultural workshops, language classes, and public events that foster cross-cultural understanding and community engagement, with a focus on communities with limited access to resources and exposure to diverse cultures
What it reported doing in 2025
Cultural Education Classes: Teaching Japanese Language students (90), Ikebana (16), Cooking (2), Japanese Calligraphy (4), Tea Ceremony (4), Karate (4), Wadaiko (6), Japanese Harp (2), Piano (4), Craft (6), Pottery (4), Mommy & Me (4), Weekend program (16), Exchange Program (6)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.7%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 81.7%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.2%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 11.88; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.7%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.7% of revenue deployed · 81.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $160K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.