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KCAL Ins Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

KCAL Ins Foundation

(1)TO AWARD GRANTS TO STUDENTS WITH INTEREST IN INSURANCE INDUSTRY AND PROVIDE INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES.

$118k
Granted FY2023
19
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$71k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

66% of KCAL Ins Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year KCAL Ins Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $118k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’20
7
’21
11
’22
12
’23
10
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$252kPhilanthropy$122kCommunity Improvement$50kCivil Rights$46kYouth Development$19kHuman Services$18kHealth$15kCrime & Legal$7kOther$0
02FY2023 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k17 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCIETY$71,000
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF CHINESE S$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
BUDDHAS LIGHT INTERNATIONAL LOS ANGELES$6,000
ASIAN BUSINESS CENTER$4,500
ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND$3,000
SFS SQUAD CLUB$2,500
ALADS CARE FOUNDATION$2,200
OVERSEAS COMMUNITY CARE NETWORK OF LA$2,000
CHINESE AMERICAN COALITION FOR COMPASSIO$2,000
COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION$2,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$1,500
CALIFORNIA ASIAN PEACE OFFICERS ASSOCIAT$1,000
ALHAMBRA POLICE FOUNDATION$1,000
NATIONAL ASIAN PEACE OFFICERS ASSC$1,000
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 (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%THE NATIONAL ACE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%GOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 14%INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN MISSIONS: $500 → 10%GOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $200 → 14%ASIAN YOUTH CENTER: $2k → 14%ASIAN YOUTH CENTER: $2k → 14%DIAMOND BAR CHINESE-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $500 → 14%CHANG SEN XUE LONGEVITY ASSOCIATION USA: $3k → 14%CHANG SEN XUE LONGEVITY ASSOCIATION USA: $500 → 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$384k · 14 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
20

Total granted

$384k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
+1%

Still filing today

50%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AB
    ASIAN BUSINESS CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +73% · 40% of their budget
  • GH
    GOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $13k · revenue ×19
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASIAN PEACE OFFICERS ASSOC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • RO
    RIVER OF LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN GREATE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • IS
    INDUSTRY SHERIFF'S YOUTH ATHLETIC LEAGUE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +1%
  • LM
    LACUSC MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $9k
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
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
2
The Asian-American Senior Citizen Association
Human Services
3
Uc Chinese Alumni Foundation
—
4
Asian Advisory Committee On Crime

Asian advisory committee on crime is a local non-profit organization located in oakland california and is based in oakland chinatown. their mission is to bring asian committee organizations together to provide crime awareness. they help to…

Crime & Legal
5
Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc

Coordinate pro bono legal aid for victims of anti-Asian violence.

Civil Rights
6
Asian Community Center Inc
Public Benefit
7
Taiwanese-American Foundation
—
8
Chinese American Asso of West Covina

To unite the Chinese American community in promoting West Covina as a city of diversity, education, culture, art, and music. Sponsoring and creating new programs, encouraging the youth to follow our footsteps for future generations.…

Recreation & Sports
9
Chinese American Womens Benevolent Association
Philanthropy
10
Chao Charitable Foundation

The primary mission of this organization will be to help others appreciate the beauty of chinese culture and heritage.

Education
11
San Francisco Taipei Sister City Committee

City to City Local Governments, Businesses, Cultural Activities and Economic Developments

Human Services
12
Asian Pacific Islander Capitol Assn

The Asian Pacific Islander Capitol Association (APICA) is a non-partisan, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization comprised of legislative staffers, advocates, and other API professionals based in the State Capitol community of Sacramento,…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Taiwan Center Foundation of Greater Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Industry Sheriff Station. 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 52 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/27
Grantees still filing
15/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCIETY: $201,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCIETYSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF CHINESE S: $36,400 · OtherSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF CHINESE SBUDDHAS LIGHT INTERNATIONAL LOS ANGELES: $36,000 · OtherBUDDHAS LIGHT INTERNATIONAL LOS ANGELESIndividual grant recipient: $34,480 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+34 more: $71,410 · Other+34 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $118,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABL…+1 more: $2,200 · PhilanthropyASIAN BUSINESS CENTER: $40,500 · Community Improvement+1 more: $500 · Community ImprovementGOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $13,290 · Human ServicesACE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesASIAN YOUTH CENTER: $3,000 · Human ServicesCHANG SEN XUE LONGEVITY ASSOCIATION OF USA: $3,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesINDUSTRY SHERIFF'S YOUTH ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $5,000 · ReligionFRIENDS OF INDUSTRY SHERIFF STATION: $2,500 · Public Safety & DisasterCOMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$379,290Philanthropy$120,200Community Improvement$41,000Human Services$25,290Youth Development$10,000Religion$5,000Public Safety & Disaster$4,500

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $118,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN BUSINESS CENTER: $40,500 over 5y, 40% of budgetGOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $13,290 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINDUSTRY SHERIFF'S YOUTH ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetACE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASIAN PEACE OFFICERS ASSOC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTAIWANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetASIAN YOUTH CENTER: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHANG SEN XUE LONGEVITY ASSOCIATION OF USA: $3,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetALADS CARES FOUNDATION: $2,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTAIWAN CENTER FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $2,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN COALITION FOR COMPASSIONATE CARE: $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAlhambra Police Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ASIAN AMERICANS UNITED FOR SELF-EMPOWERMENT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CREATIVE CLASS ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetDIAMOND BAR CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN MISSIONS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF LOS ANGELES: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetASIAN MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICE CENTER INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Asian Pacific Communi…Cathay Bank FoundationCalifornia Community …Paypal Charitable Giv…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern CaliforniaCA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California · Cathay Bank Foundation · California Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 KCAL Ins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from KCAL Ins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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 · 0–5%
    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.

    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 52 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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