San Francisco, CA

SAKURA MATSURI INC

EIN 93-1141006

Arts, Culture & Heritage Cultural Heritage & Traditions AAPI communities

Mission

To preserve, promote, and educate the public about the traditions and culture of Japan and the Japanese American communities of Northern California, primarily by sponsoring and fiscally supporting the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival and related cultural programs.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity Contributions are tax-deductible

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About SAKURA MATSURI INC

Sakura Matsuri, Inc. is a San Francisco-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that serves as the fiscal sponsor and legal organization behind the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival (NCCBF). The organization’s work centers on preserving and sharing Japanese and Japanese American cultural traditions through large public events, performances, exhibitions, and community programming. Sakura Matsuri operates largely with volunteer organizers and community partners to produce the annual festival and year-round activities. In recent years the organization has continued to produce in-person festival programming and to receive community and municipal support while maintaining regular IRS reporting and public financial filings.

Notable achievements

Longstanding fiscal sponsor of NCCBF

Serves as the fiscal sponsor and organizing body for the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival, one of San Francisco’s principal Japanese cultural events and a long-running community festival in Japantown.

Sustained operating scale (recent years)

Reported annual revenues in the mid-hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent filings, supporting festival production, program service revenue from event activities, and year-round operations.

Secured community and foundation support

Has attracted grants, sponsorships, and municipal arts support in recent years to underwrite festival production, performer honoraria, and community programming.

At a glance

Total assets: $365K
Annual revenue: $435K
Tax status: 501(c)(3)Public charity
EIN: 93-1141006
Location: San Francisco, CA
Website: sfcherryblossom.org
On Mahalo since: April 2026

Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.

Recognition

The organization is registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and is publicly listed in nonprofit databases and tax filings under EIN 93-1141006.

The name 'Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival' is used and protected by Sakura Matsuri, Inc. as the festival’s organizing entity.

Regularly acknowledged by local civic and arts programs and covered by Bay Area media outlets as the producing/fiscal sponsor organization for the annual Cherry Blossom Festival.

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