California · Private foundation
Kang Dream 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.
- $409k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $130,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Kang Dream Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $409k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $313k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $303k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $357k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $283k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $221k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $258k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $281k | 16% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Back to Eden World Mission | $317,000 | 5 | 38% |
| Koreatown Youth and Community Center | $204,600 | 9 | 1% |
| Korean American Foundation | $190,200 | 3 | 5% |
| United Way Inc | $140,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The America Wheat Mission in S Ca Inc | $79,200 | 4 | 3% |
| Korean American National Museum Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Sosa - Safe From Online Sex Abuse Inc | $65,500 | 1 | 12% |
| Shalom Disability Ministries | $52,600 | 9 | 1% |
| Pava World | $48,600 | 8 | 5% |
| Happy Village | $45,800 | 3 | 4% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($979k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Kang Dream Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Open Stewardship Foundation · California Community Foundation · Seoul Medical Charity Foundation · Youngbum Song Foundation · Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California · United Way Inc · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Korean American Foundation · Shemastella Foundation · The Steve y Kim Foundation Co Steve y Kim President · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
How this is measured
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About Kang Dream Foundation
- How much does Kang Dream Foundation give?
- Kang Dream Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $408,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kang Dream Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (28%), Philanthropy (15%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are Kang Dream Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Back to Eden World Mission ($317k), Koreatown Youth and Community Center ($205k), Korean American Foundation ($190k).
- Does Kang Dream Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kang Dream Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kang Dream Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Open Stewardship Foundation, California Community Foundation, Seoul Medical Charity Foundation.
- Where is Kang Dream Foundation based?
- Kang Dream Foundation is based in CA.
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