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· Private foundation
Dow Kim Family Foundation
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$150k
Granted FY2025
4
Grants
3
Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0169% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Human Services$475kArts & Culture$345kEducation$160kPhilanthropy$70kOther$475k
02FY2025 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$623k
Total assets
Largest grants
- THE KOREAN-AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICE CENTER INC$50,000
- THE KOREAN AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$50,000
- KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK IN$25,000
- COUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS INC$25,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $475k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 6 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
6
4
Total granted
$1.5M
$60k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+82%
+56%
Still filing today
83%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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 +82%
- TKTHE KOREAN AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $350k · revenue +36%
- COCOUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $300k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- SRSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +43%
- MAMUSEUM ASSOCIATESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +56%
- 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.
04Your field
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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The Korean Library Foundation
Education
2
Korean-American Scientists &
Contribute to the social welfare and the industrial development in the usa and korea through the promotion of science and engineering. promote cooperation between the usa and korea in science and engineering.
Science & Tech
3
Korean American United Foundation
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4
Korean American Federation of La
To support and serve better for the furtherance of the rights and interests of the korean community at los angeles
Human Services
5
Hawaii Korean Cultural Center
The entitys primary mission is to establish a building for Korean cultural center in Hawaii by gathering funds from various community fund rasing activities and obtaining aid from Korean government and Hawaii State government. The entity…
Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco & Bay Area Korea Center
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…
Human Services
7
Greater Seattle Korean Association
To promote and perform cultural, educational and charitable activities of korean communities in the state of washington.
Arts & Culture
8
Korean School Foundation
Korean language and cultural education
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9
Korean American Community of Anchorage
Kaca pursues the protection of rights and interests of its members their social harmony between the usa and korea in alaska
Arts & Culture
10
Korean Culture Center of New York
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…
Arts & Culture
11
Unification of Korea Academic Resea
Comparative studies and research concerning the political, economic, social, and cultural barriers and ties among the usa,south korea and north korea.
Arts & Culture
12
Asian Art Museum Foundation
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and (continued on schedule o)asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and…
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Korean American Scholarship 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.
04the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$475,000Other$475,000Arts & Culture$345,000Education$160,000Philanthropy$70,000
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 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.
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 273496925 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on COUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Dow Kim Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Dow Kim Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines