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Hyojin Kim Nirav Patel Foundation at a glance

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Hyojin Kim Nirav Patel 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.

$78k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

International$226kFood & Nutrition$77kHousing & Shelter$21kEmployment$20kScience & Tech$16kEducation$14kCivil Rights$12kCommunity Improvement$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,048
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HACK FOUNDATION$10,000
SMART (SCHOOLS MENTORING & RESOURCE TEAM)$6,000
LIBERTY IN NORTH KOREA FOUNDATION$5,000
GOOD NEIGHBORS USA$5,000
UNICEF USA$5,000
WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
FIRST GRADUATE$3,500
THE HUNGER PROJECT$3,000
FEEDING AMERICA$3,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$3,000
HELEN KELLER INTL$2,500
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$2,500
BRADLEY STREET BICYCLE CO-OP (CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY BICYCLE WORKSHOP)$2,479
THE COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM$2,048
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Simple Steps Community Connection: $10k → 8%HELEN KELLER SERVICES: $1k → 20%Simple Steps Community Connection: $10k → 8%World Food Program: $20k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $10k → 14%World Food Program: $10k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $10k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$337k · 17 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
8

Total granted

$337k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+1%

Still filing today

76%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    5× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +64%
  • FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +117%
  • GN
    GOOD NEIGHBORS USA
    4× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • LG
    LINK GLOBALgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +59%
  • WF
    World Food
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • C
    CARE
    one grant, 2022 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
3
Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International
4
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
5
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
6
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
7
Women in Global Health Inc

Women in global health (wgh) is a global movement and organization that brings together all genders and backgrounds to achieve gender equality in global health leadership.

Public Benefit
8
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
9
Human Rights Watch Inc

Human rights watch ("hrw") defends the rights of people worldwide. we scrupulously investigate abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. human rights watch is an independent,…

International
10
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
11
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
12
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is World Forgotten Children 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

27 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. 27 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
15/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $55,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFGOOD NEIGHBORS USA: $35,490 · InternationalGOOD NEIGHBORS USAMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $17,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $15,000 · InternationalTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECTLINK GLOBAL: $10,000 · InternationalLINK GLOBALAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $7,000 · International+5 more: $11,500 · International+5 moreMEI FONG AND ASSOCIATES AWS: $18,950 · OtherMEI FONG AND ASSOCIATES AWSLIBERTY IN NORTH KOREA FOUNDATION: $12,550 · OtherLIBERTY IN NORTH KOREA FOUNDA…AMENSTY INTERNATIONAL: $12,000 · OtherAMENSTY INTERNATIONALIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWorld Food: $10,000 · OtherWorld FoodCARE: $10,000 · OtherCARESMART (SCHOOLS MENTORING & RESOURCE): $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherBRADLEY STREET BICYCLE CO-OP (CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY BICYCLE WORKSHOP): $4,179 · OtherCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $6,144 · OtherCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM+10 more: $13,005 · Other+10 moreFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD…SIMPLE STEPS COMMUNITY CONNECTION: $20,000 · Human ServicesSIMPLE STEPS COMMUNI…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE CLEAR FUND: $32,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR FUNDWorld Forgotten Children Foundation: $24,000 · PhilanthropyWorld Forgotten…THE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB: $10,000 · Science & TechSCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART): $8,500 · EducationFeeding America: $8,000 · Food & Nutrition
International$151,490Other$107,828Human Services$76,000Philanthropy$56,000Science & Tech$10,000Education$8,500Food & Nutrition$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS USA: $35,490 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $32,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Forgotten Children Foundation: $24,000 over 4y, 52% of budgetSIMPLE STEPS COMMUNITY CONNECTION: $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMEI FONG AND ASSOCIATES AWS: $18,950 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLINK GLOBAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART): $8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding America: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $6,144 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST GRADUATE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW PLACE SHELTER FOR HOMELESS WOMEN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelen Keller Services: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE J A Y C FOUNDATION INC: $77 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hyojin Kim Nirav Patel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hyojin Kim Nirav Patel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Hyojin Kim Nirav Patel Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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