Kambara Plus
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Through multi-hyphenate collaboration (dance, tech/digital interactive media, and music), KAMBARA + works with dancers, performers, and creatives to research and play.
- Income
- $67,781
- Spending
- $50,897
- Reserves
- 16.1 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 91%
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (4)
- $10,965 spent. In Loving Memory: KAMBARA+ artists Yayoi Kambara, Loni Landon, Janesta Edmonds, and Angela Yam were commissioned by Robert Moses Kin (RMK) Dance Company in San Francisco to create a piece about legacy for their 30th anniversary season performance shown in San Francisco at Z Space as part of RMK's "New Legacies: One Acts" series, a platform for emerging and established voices in contemporary dance.
- $10,021 spent. (NI DO TO): an XR pilgrimage is a transformative lobby experience of shared connection that journeys through ancestral joy, historical trauma, and community resilience with the narrative of Japanese American incarceration. The exhibit is experienced through various interactive technologies, dance film, and visual art. Open from April 19 - July 13, 2025.
- $300 spent. The Spirit of Kangie: The Spirit of Obon, extends choreographer Nobuko Miyamotos original intent behind "Kangie" (meaning "gathering of joy") to bring people together after the COVID-19 pandemic. Bon Odori or Obon dance is a participatory circular dance performed communally during the Japanese and Japanese American Obon Festivals which commemorate our ancestors. This video was a part of the inaugural 2025 exhibition, Dancing the Algorithm, at the new Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob's Pillow.
- $15,470 spent. YES!, an interactive performance narrated by Black Benatar (aka Mx Beatrice Thomas) and visualized by and with their consent angels. Black Benatar hosts our viewers through a theatrical dance journey where audiences engage as active co-conspirators towards togetherness. YES! numbers include dance, drag, interactive games, and reflections. Audiences articulate and analyze the scenes to define consent - when a scenario needs consent, discernment, the choice we make and communicate, and finally - action without attachment. Show October 5th, 2025 at C.A.S.T. Theater San Francisco.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 30, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 10, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since December 2023.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 7, 2026.
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