Keiro Services
Los Angeles, CA · EIN 95-4022185. Reported 120 grants totalling $6,232,755 to 47 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Keiro Services, by its IRS classification it provides support services within health care (NTEE E19).
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 80% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 72% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,290. Half of what it reported fell between $7,000 and $13,000; the smallest was $5,029 and the largest $5,001,313. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keiro Kikyo Home | Los Angeles, CA | $5,001,313 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Tokyo Nutrition Services | Los Angeles, CA | $79,400 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| East San Gabriel Valley Japanese Community Center | West Covina, CA | $74,900 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| Buddhist Churches of America | San Francisco, CA | $73,250 | 5 | 3 | 2022 |
| Orange County Japanese American Association | Tustin, CA | $67,242 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Long Beach Japanese Cultural Center | Long Beach, CA | $64,775 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Venice Hongwanji Buddhist Temple | Culver City, CA | $64,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Venice Japanese Community Center | Los Angeles, CA | $59,717 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Long Beach Buddhist Church | Long Beach, CA | $59,404 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Cerritos Baptist Church | Cerritos, CA | $56,625 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute | Gardena, CA | $52,438 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Faith United Methodist Church | Torrance, CA | $51,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pasadena Nikkei Seniors Inc | S Pasadena, CA | $49,100 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| West Los Angeles Buddhist Temple | Los Angeles, CA | $46,495 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Zenshuji Soto Mission | Los Angeles, CA | $43,797 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Buddhist Churches of America | Anaheim, CA | $43,370 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Orange County Friendship Choir | Irvine, CA | $28,960 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| West Los Angeles United Methodist Church | Los Angeles, CA | $18,960 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Asian American Community Media Project Inc | Torrance, CA | $18,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Japanese American Citizens League | Thousand Oaks, CA | $18,200 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Makoto Taiko | Pasadena, CA | $15,840 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Little Tokyo Community Council | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nalc USA | Torrance, CA | $14,332 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Charanporan USA Inc | Torrance, CA | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| First Presbyterian Church Altadena | Altadena, CA | $12,860 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sakura Chorus | Torrance, CA | $12,825 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mission Valley Free Methodist Church | San Gabriel, CA | $12,570 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Pasadena Buddhist Temple | Pasadena, CA | $12,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chatsworth United Methodist Church | Chatsworth, CA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| San Fernando Valley Japanese American Community Center | Pacoima, CA | $11,900 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Los Angeles Hompa Hongwanji Buddist Temple | Los Angeles, CA | $11,261 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America | Post Falls, ID | $11,110 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Kansai Club Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $9,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Union Church of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hearts of Lavender Inc | San Marino, CA | $8,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Go for Broke National Education Center | Los Angeles, CA | $8,100 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Visual Communications Media | Los Angeles, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Crossroads Community Church of South Orange County | Mission Viejo, CA | $7,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oxnard Buddhist Temple | Oxnard, CA | $7,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California Black Media | Sacramento, CA | $6,850 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grace Bridge Chapel | Camarillo, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Oriental Missionary Society Holiness Church of North America | Los Angeles, CA | $5,760 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Redondo Beach Church of Christ | Redondo Beach, CA | $5,750 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| South Bay Singers | Covina, CA | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oxnard Buddhist Temple | Oxnard, CA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Fernando Valley Meiji Senior Citizens Committee on Aging | Pacoima, CA | $5,422 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pasadena Buddhist Temple | Pasadena, CA | $5,029 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
26 of 47 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Little Tokyo Nutrition Services
TO SUPPORT LTNS'S CORE OPERATIONS TO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY'S OLDER ADULTS - Orange County Japanese American Association
TO SUPPORT OCJAA'S PROGRAM INITIATIVES FOR CAREGIVERS, OLDER ADULTS, AND CLASSES - Orange County Buddhist Church
TO SUPPORT OCBC'S TWICE MONTHLY "TOMODACHI BENTO PROJECT" MEAL PROGRAM - Oxnard Buddhist Temple
TO SUPPORT OBT'S ADA SENIOR ACCESSIBILITY PROJECT IN 2023 - Faith United Methodist Church
TO SUPPORT FAITH UMC'S MEAL AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS IN 2022 - Long Beach Japanese Cultural Center
TO SUPPORT LBJCC'S SENIOR LUNCH PROGRAMS IN 2022
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 24 of 47 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 20 | $215,632 | $11,142 |
| 2021 | 21 | $230,375 | $11,759 |
| 2022 | 25 | $272,828 | $11,995 |
| 2023 | 24 | $249,622 | $10,170 |
| 2024 | 30 | $5,264,298 | $8,425 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
100% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,290 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Keiro Services's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 30 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 420 East Third Street 1000, Los Angeles, CA, 90013.
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