Keiro Services
Los Angeles, CA · EIN 95-4022185. Reported 90 grants totalling $968,457 to 39 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. 39 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 70% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $11,142. Half of what it reported fell between $7,750 and $13,075; the smallest was $5,029 and the largest $20,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buddhist Churches of America | San Francisco, CA | $73,250 | 5 | 3 | 2022 |
| Orange County Japanese American Association | Tustin, CA | $59,912 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| East San Gabriel Valley Japanese Community Center | West Covina, CA | $59,600 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Little Tokyo Nutrition Services | Los Angeles, CA | $59,400 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Long Beach Japanese Cultural Center | Long Beach, CA | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Venice Hongwanji Buddhist Temple | Culver City, CA | $52,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Long Beach Buddhist Church | Long Beach, CA | $49,404 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| West Los Angeles Buddhist Temple | Los Angeles, CA | $46,495 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Cerritos Baptist Church | Cerritos, CA | $46,025 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Venice Japanese Community Center | Los Angeles, CA | $45,029 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute | Gardena, CA | $43,838 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Faith United Methodist Church | Torrance, CA | $43,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pasadena Nikkei Seniors Inc | S Pasadena, CA | $39,100 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Zenshuji Soto Mission | Los Angeles, CA | $34,297 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Buddhist Churches of America | Anaheim, CA | $33,120 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Orange County Friendship Choir | Irvine, CA | $18,460 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Makoto Taiko | Pasadena, CA | $15,840 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Nalc USA | Torrance, CA | $14,332 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Japanese American Citizens League | Thousand Oaks, CA | $12,700 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pasadena Buddhist Temple | Pasadena, CA | $12,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chatsworth United Methodist Church | Chatsworth, CA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| West Los Angeles United Methodist Church | Los Angeles, CA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Asian American Community Media Project Inc | Torrance, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Oxnard Buddhist Temple | Oxnard, CA | $7,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Charanporan USA Inc | Torrance, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mission Valley Free Methodist Church | San Gabriel, CA | $6,570 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| First Presbyterian Church Altadena | Altadena, CA | $6,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Grace Bridge Chapel | Camarillo, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sakura Chorus | Torrance, CA | $5,825 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Pasadena Buddhist Temple | Pasadena, CA | $5,029 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
21 of 39 (54%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 39 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 |
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
99% 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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $11,142 -- 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 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 24 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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