Nisei Veterans Legacy Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454887505
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Honolulu, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8089420881
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $36,223
- Expenses
- $58,157
- Assets
- $69,814
- Liabilities
- $539
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICAH BENAVITZ (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BYRNES YAMASHITA (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ERIKA BARR-DAVID (DIRECTOR)
- STEVE MIGDOL (DIRECTOR)
- PATRICK SUENAGA (DIRECTOR)
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
To preserve, perpetuate, and share the legacy of the americans of japanese ancenstry who served in the u.s. Armed forces in world war ii.
What it reported doing in 2024
Nisei soldiers video, and other program expenses and outreach. Contributed to visit by french students for 80th anniversary of liberation. Sponsored completion and premiere of film shikata ga nai - a drama on the stress experienced by a nisei veteran 50 yrs after the war. Donated to national exhibition tour on nisei solders.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 43% for direct work, and 57% for grants.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 86
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: -60.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.3% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.