Nippon Kan

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841097853
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Denver, CO, USA
Phone
3035958256
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$64,832
Expenses
$48,949
Assets
$225,085
Liabilities
$93,455

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GEORGE PAZMINO (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • GEORGE PAZMINO (PRESIDENT)
  • HIEN PHAM (VICE PRESIDE)
  • SAN ONG (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide denver community service through our homeless meal service (with over 100,000 meals served to date), both local & international charitable activities, and japanese culture education.

What it reported doing in 2025

Nippon kan is a unique and inspirational organization dedicated to humanitarian assistance and asian cultural exchange & awareness, both local and world-wide. Nippon kan was built on the tradition of the non-violent japanese martial art of aikido and its philosophy. Nippon kan serves the community by providing a monthly homeless meal service, authentic japanese historical & cultural enrichment through its center, as well as an international charitable assistance program for children in developing countries.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
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 total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 62
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51.3%; rating input score 51
  • Program expense ratio: 79%; rating input score 79

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 24.5%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.6; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 51.3% of revenue deployed · 79% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $39K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.