· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE KOREAN-AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICE CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| THE KOREAN AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS INC | $25,000 |
| KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK IN | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +107% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TKThe Korean American Family Service Center Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $475k · revenue +107%
- 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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dow Kim Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dow Kim Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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