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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 FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$130k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$635kPhilanthropy$338kYouth Development$228kEducation$169kHuman Services$156kCivil Rights$111kHealth$109kPublic Safety & Disaster$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $105k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $106k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $197k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$130,000
Individual grant recipient$67,200
HAPPY VILLAGE$30,800
KOREAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION$30,000
GLENDALE KOREAN SDA CHURCH$15,400
KOREAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
KOREA TOWN SENIOR & COMMUNITY$10,000
KOREATOWN YOUTH COMMUNITY CENTER$9,400
THE AMERICAN WHEAT MISSION$9,100
SHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIES$6,400
Individual grant recipient$6,200
KCBC AMERICA$5,200
NEWTON COMMUNITY YOUTH$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $489k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HWARANG YOUTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%HWARANG YOUTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $66k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $55k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH COMMUNITY CENTER: $39k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH COMMUNITY CENTER: $18k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH COMMUNITY CENTER: $9k → 14%KOREAN AMERICA FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTE: $4k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTE: $4k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 14%KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 14%KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%KOREAN AMERICA FAMILY SERVICES (KFAM): $3k → 14%KOREAN AMERICA FAMILY SERVICES (KFAM): $3k → 14%KOREAN AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LA: $30k → 14%KOREATOWN SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%KOREATOWN SENIOR AND COMM CTR: $7k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%KOREATOWN SENIOR AND COMM CTR: $4k → 14%KOREA TOWN SENIOR AND COMM CTR: $4k → 14%KOREATOWN SENIOR AND COMM CTR: $4k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%KOREATOWN SENIOR AND COMM CTR: $3k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS INC: $5k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS INC: $5k → 14%PAVA WORLD: $10k → 14%PAVA WORLD: $10k → 14%PAVA WORLD: $9k → 14%PAVA WORLD: $5k → 14%HWARANG YOUTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%HWARANG YOUTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PAVA WORLD: $5k → 14%PAVA WORLD: $3k → 14%PAVA WORLD: $3k → 14%PAVA WORLD: $3k → 14%HAPPY VILLAGE: $31k → 14%HAPPY VILLAGE: $10k → 14%HAPPY VILLAGE: $5k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $4k → 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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 64 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

64 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
34

Total granted

$2.5M
$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+41%

Still filing today

41%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • KY
    KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +199%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $140k · revenue +8%
  • TA
    THE AMERICA WHEAT MISSION IN S CA INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $79k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • SS
    SOSA - SAFE FROM ONLINE SEX ABUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $66k · revenue +41%
  • KA
    KOREAN AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LA
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -36%
  • MF
    MISSION FOR TOMORROW INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +190%
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
Korean World Mission Council
Religion
2
Korean Senior Citizens Association of San Fernando Valley
Recreation & Sports
3
Korean American United Foundation
—
4
Korean American Leaders in Hollywood

We empower and celebrate korean americans shaping the future of entertainment and media. through advocacy community and collaboration, we champion emerging talent and leaders, and bridge korea and the global market advancing korean…

Arts & Culture
5
Korean American Network International

To spread the gospel to the underserved countries

International
6
Korean American Association of Greater

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…

Arts & Culture
7
The Korean Library Foundation
Education
8
Korean American Association of San Diego

This organization is representing the Korean Community by Korean Government through the Korean Consulate General in Los Angeles. This organization has supported the Korean Consulate General Affair once a month and performed many events in…

—
9
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
10
K J Choi Foundation
—
11
Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Orange County

To promote networking among members and protect the interests and businesses of the Korean American Commuity in Orange County.

Membership Benefit
12
Korean American Center

Dedicated to building connections between intergenerational korean-americans and the greater community by promoting opportunities for appreciation of korea's rich cultural heritage. we aim to integrate others of various backgrounds that…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Korean American Family Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Back to Eden World Mission. 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

42 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. 42 of the 102 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/42
Grantees still filing
28/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $211,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $139,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKOREAN AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LOS ANGELES: $84,000 · OtherKOREAN AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LOS ANGELESTHE AMERICA WHEAT MISSION IN S CA INC: $79,200 · OtherTHE AMERICA WHEAT MISSION IN S CA INCGLENDALE KOREAN SDA CHURCH: $58,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN WHEAT MISSION DBA MILAL MISSION: $48,500 · OtherCERRITOS KOREAN SDA CHURCH: $46,200 · Other+66 more: $551,600 · Other+66 moreKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $204,600 · Human ServicesKOREATOWN YOUTH AND C…PAVA WORLD: $48,600 · Human ServicesPAVA WORLDHAPPY VILLAGE: $45,800 · Human ServicesHAPPY VILLAGEKOREA TOWN SENIOR AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $31,500 · Human ServicesKOREA TOWN SENIOR AND…KOREAN AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LA: $29,500 · Human ServicesKOREAN AMERICAN FEDER…HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $29,000 · Human ServicesHOPE SIGHT MISSION AS…HWARANG YOUTH FOUNDATION: $22,400 · Human ServicesKOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $22,200 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $19,000 · Human Services+5 more: $48,000 · Human Services+5 moreBACK TO EDEN WORLD MISSION: $317,000 · ReligionBACK TO EDEN WORLD…SHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIES: $52,600 · ReligionSHALOM DISABILITY …KCBC AMERICA: $40,000 · ReligionKCBC AMERICAMISSION FOR TOMORROW INC: $15,000 · Religion+1 more: $3,000 · ReligionKOREAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $190,200 · PhilanthropyKOREAN AMERICA…UNITED WAY INC: $140,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY INCKOREAN AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION: $17,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropySOSA - SAFE FROM ONLINE SEX ABUSE INC: $65,500 · Crime & LegalOBA FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · Crime & LegalKorean American National Museum Inc: $70,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureVISION CARE SERVICE WEST: $27,000 · InternationalTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $5,000 · International
Other$1,218,700Human Services$500,600Religion$427,600Philanthropy$349,200Crime & Legal$76,500Arts & Culture$72,000International$32,000

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 budgetBACK TO EDEN WORLD MISSION: $317,000 over 5y, 38% of budgetKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $204,600 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $190,200 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $140,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICA WHEAT MISSION IN S CA INC: $79,200 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetKorean American National Museum Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetSOSA - SAFE FROM ONLINE SEX ABUSE INC: $65,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetSHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIES: $52,600 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetPAVA WORLD: $48,600 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetHAPPY VILLAGE: $45,800 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetKCBC AMERICA: $40,000 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetKOREA TOWN SENIOR AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $31,500 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN COALITION: $30,200 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LA: $29,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $29,000 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetVISION CARE SERVICE WEST: $27,000 over 9y, 9.6% of budgetHWARANG YOUTH FOUNDATION: $22,400 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $22,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetHOME ON THE GREEN PASTURES: $16,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION: $16,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR THE PACIFIC-ASIAN FAMILY INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION FOR TOMORROW INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetOBA FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BURBANK AND GREATER EAST VALLEY INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Service for Groups Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKOREAN HEALTH EDUCATION INFORMATION AND RESEARCH CENTER: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW COVENANT ACADEMY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEESAW COMMUNITIES INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWon Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetZION GOSPEL MISSION: $3,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKkottongnae Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKPA JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetKACCOC FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEl Pozo de Vida: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRK MEDIA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 100% 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.

  • Who funds BACK TO EDEN WORLD MISSION ↗
  • Who funds KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICA WHEAT MISSION IN S CA INC ↗
  • Who funds Korean American National Museum Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOSA - SAFE FROM ONLINE SEX ABUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds PAVA WORLD ↗
  • Who funds HAPPY VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds KCBC AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds KOREA TOWN SENIOR AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN COALITION ↗
  • Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LA ↗
  • Who funds HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VISION CARE SERVICE WEST ↗
  • Who funds HWARANG YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOME ON THE GREEN PASTURES ↗
  • Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE PACIFIC-ASIAN FAMILY 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 Stewardship Foun…California Community …Seoul Medical Charity…Youngbum Song Foundat…Asian Pacific Communi…United Way IncThe Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…Korean American Found…Shemastella FoundationThe Steve y Kim Found…Cedars-Sinai Medical …
Open Stewardship FoundationCA36.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Kang Dream Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kang Dream Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Kang Dream Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kang Dream 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 102 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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