· Private foundation
Ki Hyun Joo and Kyung Don Joo 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American River Conservancy | $55,000 |
| Silicon Valley Korea U Alumni Association | $20,000 |
| Boston College Law School | $10,000 |
| Success Economy Institute | $10,000 |
| Bay Area KGroup | $10,000 |
| museLIVE Inc | $5,000 |
| Natures Nursery | $5,000 |
| Jesuit Volunteer Corps | $5,000 |
| Boll Family YMCA | $5,000 |
| Sewhope Inc | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 70% of grant dollars ($330k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 30% that went abroad ($139k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 30% of all-years giving ($139k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YHYangChung High School Alumni Assoc4× · 2021–2024 · $68k
- ARAMERICAN RIVER CONSERVANCY2× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue -66%
- BCBoston College Law School3× · 2023–2025 · $40k
Funded once
- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- NWNamyangju Welfare Foundationone grant, 2024 · $10k
- HWHumane World for Animals Incone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Help Animals India is a 501c3 organization dedicated to improving the lives and welfare of animals by providing financial and consultation to support and build capacity of animal rescue groups in India and Nepal while connecting donors…
Cultivating the empowerment of women globally who promote animal activism and welfare. women united. men invited
Reduce animal euthanasia by providing free spay and neuters, free shots, pet food and public education
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
War Relief Ukraine is a non-profit organization with a mission to improve the lives of those impacted by the ongoing hostilities in Ukraine. Our goal is to provide much-needed relief to the innocent victims of the conflict.
Animal welfare
Our mission is to move adoptable dogs and cats primarily from heavily-burdened areas to loving homes. We work with trusted partners throughout the country and around the world and facilitate vet care, transport, and adoptions to help…
Beach Dog Rescue of Costa Maya Mexico, Inc. was formed with a single purpose - to help end the suffering of homeless dogs in Costa Maya, Mexico. Tens of thousands of homeless, starving, sick and injured street dogs struggle to survive on…
Protection of animal rights
To provide rescue,foster,rehabilitation and adoption of domesticated pets to promote humane responsable pet ownership and to increase awareness and provide solutions fo pet over-population issues.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 24 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 AMERICAN RIVER CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA K-GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds NATURES NURSERY CENTER FOR WILDLIFE REHAB & CONSR ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds Karma Rescue ↗
- Who funds SEWHOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HUT OUTREACH ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ki Hyun Joo and Kyung Don Joo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ki Hyun Joo and Kyung Don Joo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
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