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Dow Kim Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE KOREAN AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE KOREAN-AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICE CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK IN | $25,000 |
| COUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS INC | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $475k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 1 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 FY2025, 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
- TKThe Korean American Family Service Center Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $475k · revenue +90%
- TKTHE KOREAN AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $350k · revenue +31%
- COCOUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $300k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- SRSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +7%
- MAMUSEUM ASSOCIATESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +89%
- KFKOREA FINANCE SOCIETY LTDone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
The mission of the korean american community center of san francisco and bay area (kaccsf) is to build community and enhance the quality of life for the korean american residents in the san francisco and bay area. we are a place-based…
The mission of korean culture center of new york, inc. is to promote and organize korean cultural, arts, educational, and social activities. it aims to establish a venue where all korean americans and other groups can participate in…
Comparative studies and research concerning the political, economic, social, and cultural barriers and ties among the usa,south korea and north korea.
We advocate for the rights of Korean-american and promote the well-being and prosperity of the Korean-American community. We conduct activities to promote unity and fellowship, community participation, provide educational and social…
To support and serve better for the furtherance of the rights and interests of the korean community at los angeles
The purpose of the organization is to promote creativity, research, study and exhibitions in the arts. kafa arms to encourage cooperation and free exchange among those who are interested in the arts, to provide educational facilities and…
To promote and strengthen our diverse community by educating present and future generations in the evolving korean-american experience in hawaii.
To exercise and protect the privileges and interest of the residents of Korean-American community in the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Tri-State area to foster a healty interest in the civic affaires of the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Korean American Scholarship Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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.
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 The Korean American Family Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE KOREAN AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds AHL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds KOREA FINANCE SOCIETY LTD ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FOUNDATION 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: Csk Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Dow Kim Family Foundation 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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