The Budo Kai Kan International Foundation was formed by Jon Bluming, together with Frans van Wijngaarden and Tom Eikmans in 1980 and was an unofficial and personal organisation. Only from 1996 the organisation was legally grounded as an official foundation under the gouvernment of Dave Cook, together with Dave Jonkers. In 2004 Dave Cook and Dave Jonkers stepped out of the Board and a new Board was installed and a new foundation was grounded, named International Budo Kai: chairman Frans van Wijngaarden, 8th dan, vice chairman Jan de Bruin, 7th dan, secretary Jan de Jong, 6th dan and treasurer Tom Eikmans, 8th dan. In 2005 kaicho Bluming appointed Gerard Gordeau, 9th dan as his succesor and kancho of IBK.