· Private foundation
Eugene and Carol Choi 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $114k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $146k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARMONIA MUSIC GROUP | $96,100 |
| COUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICAN | $50,000 |
| ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| IRVINE BARCLAY THEATER | $20,000 |
| UCI FOUNDATION | $19,950 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,700 |
| NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE THREE-SELF PATRIOTIC MOVEMENT | $10,000 |
| KOREAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND | $10,000 |
| NEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| US OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LAIST | $2,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $1,406 |
| KOREA CHRISTIAN GOSPEL MISSION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $349 |
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 (FY19–19, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 73% of Eugene and Carol Choi Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 28%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $539k · revenue +181%
- SSSOMANG SOCIETY5× · 2017–2021 · $396k · revenue +9%
- COCOUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $374k · revenue +136% · 48% of their budget
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINEone grant, 2017 · $251k
- PCPACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND FKA NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN COALITIONone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue -8%
- MFMEDICI FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -26%
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 asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The korean american community foundation of san francisco uplifts and connects the korean-american community through philanthropy.
To expand cultural exchange through exhibitions, performances, fashion shows,culinary events, distribution of publications, and other artistic endeavors between korea and the united states
To provide leadership, knowledge-building, advocacy and connection to expand the vitality and impact of the orchestra and broader music community.
The japan america society of southern california works to (1) promote among the american people a more accurate knowledge of the people of japan, their aims, customs, ideals, arts and sciences, industries, economic conditions, and…
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
The organization's mission is to represent the ethical members of the rental housing industry in all aspects of government affairs within the state of california, and to provide information, products and services which contribute to the…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOMANG SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds ARMONIA MUSIC GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Symphony ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND FKA NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDICI FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KOREA CHRISTIAN GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CHORALE ↗
- Who funds THE PARNASSUS SOCIETY ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Eugene and Carol Choi Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eugene and Carol Choi Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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