2025-03-25T21:28:15-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 863227139 AMACHE ALLIANCE AMAC 6194054038 1502 AVENIDA LA POSTA ENCINITAS CA 92024 Mitch Homma President 6194054038 2025-03-17 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Mitch Homma 1502 Avenida La Posta Encinitas CA 92024 314305 0 X AmacheAlliance.org X 2021 CA The mission of the Amache Alliance is to help preserve and interpret the WWII Granada Relocation Center, known as the Amache National Historic Site, a WWII Japanese American incarceration site in Colorado. Preservation includes, but is not limited to, Amache's stories, artifacts and historic structures. The Amache Alliance works to educate all Americans about the forced evacuation, relocation, and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Official philanthropic partner and Friends group for the National Park Service's Amache National Historic Site. 7 0 0 25 0 0 13908 119339 192485 362 2481 0 14270 314305 1757 41132 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1167 128866 2924 169998 11346 144307 27544 169506 1000 106253 26544 63253 X The mission of the Amache Alliance is to help preserve and interpret the WWII Granada Relocation Center, known as the Amache National Historic Site, a WWII Japanese American incarceration site in Colorado. Preservation includes, but is not limited to, Amache's stories, artifacts and historic structures. The Amache Alliance works collaboratively with other organizations to educate all Americans about the forced evacuation, relocation, and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. 1 0 84840 0 0 Amache National Historic Site Maintenance Project. Improved access within the historic site through much needed grading and repair to roadways that were damaged from heavy rains, which occurred in the spring and summer of 2023. The repairs allowed for universal access within the site and removed hazards for vehicles which compromised visitor safety. The repaired historic WWII roads provided safe access for over 250 Amache families and visitors during the May Pilgrimage. Also, removed a non-historic water tank which returned barracks block 11K to a similar state as the surrounding blocks. The non-historic water tank on site was used by the Town of Granada until 2000, when it was abandoned. The tank was identified as non-contributing in the sites National Register nomination and facilitating its removal restores the integrity of the Site's cultural landscape. An Amache descendant family who visited their family's barracks for the first time had an incredible experience. This location was right next to the removed water tank. Project was completed in time to support the annual Amache pilgrimage and national media film crews covering the establishment ribbon cutting ceremony. 47069 16000 900 Amache - Sand Creek Massacre Youth Ambassador Program. As of December 1st, 2024, we have completed the first two of three engagements with a Youth Ambassador Cohort of 12 people ages 14-23, increased from the originally proposed 10. Adult educators, chaperons, and program leadership planned and guided the overall program which included site visits to both the Amache National Historic Site and Sand Creek Massacre Historic Site. The participants were able to engage in several cultural activities which helped solidify their new friendships while learning about different traditions. We completed debriefing sessions with community educators and support staff, and a comprehensive reflection survey for youth Ambassadors is in progress. Massacre Foundation. All but one of the 12 original ambassadors returned for this second phase. Youth ambassadors and their families participated in four days of relay-running and cultural activities between the Sand Creek Massacre site and Denver, approximately 200 miles. This was an extremely impactful event that built stronger ties between ambassadors and the landscape, their shared histories, and other members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho community. 18000 17000 1000 Fundraising film project grants for post-production and support the project team's efforts to take film, Procession, on an opening film tour show in 2025. Procession is an intense, intimate, and poetic short film about generational trauma, horrors of history past, and memory. The film was born via way of family stories, extensive research, and an extremely dedicated team, who believe that remembrance is the best way to heal. The film follows a young Japanese American girl, June during the week her family is issued the executive order 9066, to be moved to incarceration camps. The film storyline fast forwards to the early 2000s, where June is now in her late 60s, and is going on a bus pilgrimage back to the site she was incarcerated at as a child. The Amache Alliance successfully supported the community fundraising efforts with successful grant applications. 3865 3865 0 National Park Foundation Storytelling Project. Amache Alliance Storytelling Project starts the implementation and of an exhibit showing the activities at the Recreation Hall 11F which is one of the restore structures at the Amache site. The implementation is guided by a previously funded project that created the Rec. Hall Interpretive Plan. 1000 1000 0 Project to create a website and display the products and artifacts from the Amache Silkscreen Shop. Project costs include the labor and digitization of artifacts from the Japanese American National Museum collection. Association of Print Scholars Collaboration grant has allowed the Amache Alliance to create a website dedicated to the Silk Screen Shop, and to reproduce images of all of the objects known to have been printed at the shop. The new website can be accessed through a link on the website of the Amache Preservation Society, a community organization that works in collaboration with the Amache Alliance. (https://amache.org/silkscreen-shop/). Links on the Amache Alliance website also direct visitors to the new page. 832 0 0 Annual Amache Pilgrimage Support. The Amache Alliance is an organizer for the annual pilgrimage back to the Amache National Historic Site for former internees, descendants and supporters. The Amache Alliance coordinates volunteer activities with the National Park Service and provides food for the volunteers. 8132 8132 0 Grants to Granada High School's Amache Preservation Society. 1288 0 0 Amache Alliance Program support for National Park Service volunteer work and Amache - Sand Creek Youth Ambassador Program activity materials 15117 12997 0 165026 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 CA X X X Mitch Homma 6194054038 1502 AVENIDA LA POSTA ENCINITAS CA 92024 X Mitch Homma President 5 2 X X 0 0 0 Kirsten Leong Vice President 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Dana Ogo Shew Secretary 1 1 X X 0 0 0 Stephanie Stone Treasurer 2 0 X X 0 0 0 April Kamp Whittaker Compliance Officer 1 1 X X 0 0 0 John Tonai Director 1 X X 0 0 0 Greg Kitajima Compliance Officer 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Derek Okubo Colorado Special Advisor 1 2 X 0 0 0 Jane Daniels Special Advisor & Grant Manager 2 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4330 0 50000 65009 32504 119339 National Park Foundation Amache Maintenance 813410 87485 87485 0 0 National Park Foundation Storytelling 813410 100000 100000 0 0 NPCA Amache Sand Creek Youth Ambassador Prog 813410 5000 5000 0 0 0 0 0 0 192485 2481 2481 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4330 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 314305 194966 0 0 8132 8132 33000 33000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 598 0 598 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 206 0 206 0 800 800 0 0 0 0 0 0 2553 2553 0 0 97 50 47 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 35765 34145 1620 0 0 0 0 0 1280 300 980 0 0 0 0 0 75 0 75 0 0 0 0 0 1600 1000 600 0 Road Maintenance labor & materials 84840 84840 0 0 Youth Ambassador Program Materials 206 206 0 0 Trademark Registration (USTPO) 721 0 721 0 Colorado State Nonprofit registration 125 0 125 0 169998 165026 4972 0 4284 30540 23260 114701 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24265 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27544 169506 0 5865 1000 100388 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1000 106253 X 26544 38988 0 24265 26544 63253 27544 169506 X 144307 -2538 0 0 0 -105060 X 0 0 0 X 6677 17202 13908 311824 349611 0 6677 17202 13908 311824 349611 349611 0 362 2481 2843 352454 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 26803 -2538 0 0 0 24265 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.04 0.96 0 0 0 Schedule D, Part V, Line 4 To provide long-term support for the Granada High School's Amache Preservation Society, Amache Museum, preservation and interpretation work at or about Amache, student learning and education, and research at or about Amache. Funds from the endowment will be allocated to project or students contributing to the following areas: student engagement and education in support of preservation or research about Amache; support to the Amache Preservation Society and Amache Museum; the preservation of the Amache National Historic Site's legacy; contributing to preserve Amache's histotical stories 1 Cash grant for film project post-production supporting mission to collaborate with other organizations for education about Amache. 1 19000 0 Cash Grant Award value Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 The procedures for monitoring the use of grant funds by organizations and individuals is through periodic reports and reviews with the project leads, compliance officers, and financial team members. Schedule I, Part III The procedures for monitoring the use of grant funds by organizations and individuals is through periodic reports and reviews with the project leads, compliance officers, and financial team members X 2 6000 Estimate - labor and material X 150 25804 Brokerage statement 0 0 1 0 Form 990, Part III, Line 2 Qualified for new programs and grants in 2024 with the formal establishment of the Amache National Historic Site managed by the National Park Service, Dept. of Interior. The Amache Alliance is the official philanthropic partner for the new historic site. New National Park Foundation Grant for Improving Road Access to Amache National Historic Site - see PART III 4a: accomplishment. New National Park Foundation Grant for Historic Storytelling. New Colorado State grant to start the Amache - Sand Creek Youth Ambassador program. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 President Mitch Homma is married to Treasurer Stephanie Stone Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The following process is used by the organization to review the IRS Form 990 tax forms: 1) Full Form 990 and Schedules are sent out to the Board of Directors, 2) Posted to the Board of Directors online shared space, 3) Posted to the Board, committee members, and advisor's online BoardnetWork cloud software platform for review. Review and acceptance by board members during Board meeting. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Programs and Conflict of Interest are discussed and reviewed at Board Meeting(s) and monitored by the two Compliance Officers. Program management, agreements, and financials are reviewed by the Board and compliance officers. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public during the tax year through our Amache Alliance website, upon request, and California state websites, Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 90 Part XI Reconciliation of Net Assets #9: 1) Accounts payable liability: $5,865 990; Part XI Reconciliation of Net Assets #9: 2) Grants payable liability: $100,429; Total: $106,294