Newport News Japanese School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541485667
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Newport News, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7578816000
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,189
- Expenses
- $96,538
- Assets
- $154,887
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mr Masato Mori (President)
People named in this filing
- Mr Masato Mori (President)
- Mr Tomoyuki Kaneda (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 japanese government does not recognize the diploma received by children who graduate from schools not officially recognized by the japanese education ministry.therefore, they cannot be admitted to japanese universities. For children of japanese descent whose parents are temporarily located abroad, the need to conform to the educational system of the home country is a very serious problem. To avert potential problems, supplemental education for the children of japanese nationals is an absolute necessity. The newport news japanese school was incorporated on january 29, 1988 for the purpose of providing appropriate schooling to japanese speaking students in the hampton roads area.the school offers classes in japanese language to non-japanese speaking students from the hampston roads area. Since its inception the school offers courses to provide an opportunity to study national language (japanese) and "arithemtic/mathematics " based on the japanese curriculum guideline. Classes have bee
What it reported doing in 2025
Newport news japanese school provides professional service to the students it serves. Thirty five students were enrolled in the class in 2025. Tuition is based on the length of the class time. The school charges $100 first year entry fee from all students in the regular program. The annual tuition for the students in kindergarten is $1,100 and for the students in first grade and above it is $1,500. For non-japanese speaking students the tuition is $800 for all classes. There is a $50 discount for second child, $75 for third chid and $100 for fouth child. These funds provide compensation to instructors and help purchase supplies to better assist in the educational process.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.5%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.6; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $97K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.