· Private foundation
Don & Susan Kang Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASIAN HALL OF FAME | $20,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ORANGE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF ST LAWRENCE COMUNITA CENACOLO AMERI | $5,000 |
| ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SCSegerstrom Center for the Arts4× · 2018–2022 · $154k · revenue +34%
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY5× · 2018–2023 · $116k · revenue +19%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC4× · 2018–2022 · $68k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- CFCHOC FOUNDATION DBA CHOC CHILDREN'Sone grant, 2021 · $50k
- TWTIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +48%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +80%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tiger Woods Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is ONE805 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds TIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ASIAN HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds SAGE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FIREFIGHTERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF ST LAWRENCE - COMUNITA CENACOLO AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CURE DUCHENNE ↗
- Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR YOUTH SOY ↗
- Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
- Who funds RM PYLES BOYS CAMP ↗
- Who funds ONE805 INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Macdonald Family Foundation · Kim and Andrew D Busch Family Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Www Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Don & Susan Kang Charitable Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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