Tanforan Assembly Center Memorial Committee

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
460952648
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Albany, CA, USA
Phone
5105245189
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Historical Societies & Historic Preservation

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,749
Expenses
$45,815
Assets
$180,992

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Douglas Yamamoto (President)
  • Steve Okamoto (Vice-President)

People named in this filing

  • Douglas Yamamoto (President)
  • Steve Okamoto (Vice-President)
  • Ken Ijichi (Tresurer)

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

The organizations primary mission is to memorialize the unjust incarceration of 8,000 americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II at the former Tanforan Race

What it reported doing in 2024

Build and maintain a bronze statue and memorial plaza outside SanBruno Bart to commemorate 8,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned at Tanforan in 1942.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 68% 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

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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 95
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -696.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.95; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $40K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2013 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 2/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.