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Koh Charitable 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KOREAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFO | $30,000 |
| CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATIO | $20,000 |
| SHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| Korean American Special Education C | $10,000 |
| PIME MISSIONARIES | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CA NAI | $10,000 |
| MILAL MISSION IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNI | $10,000 |
| KOREAN CATHOLIC ASSOCIATES OF LA | $10,000 |
| Los Angeles County Epilepsy Foundat | $10,000 |
| THE PEOPLE CONCERN | $10,000 |
| APEX FOR YOUTH | $5,000 |
| KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT | $5,000 |
| MIDNIGHT MISSION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +63%- SDSHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +34%
- TPTHE PEOPLE CONCERN6× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +696%
Funded once
- KAKOREAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $110k · revenue ×12
- CMCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2025 · $20k · revenue 0%
- TLTHE LITTLE JESUS FAMILY LA INCone grant, 2025 · $4k · revenue -1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The center provides a place of community to end isolation, build relationships, and introduce housing, health and wellness services to adult individuals experiencing homelessness in hollywood. it contracts with public and non-profit grant…
To give hope and change lives. we do this by offering a continuum of prevention, intervention, behavioral health and wellness services to adults and families throughout california. these services aim to reduce costs of societal problems by…
Crf, in partnership with our clients and stakeholders, designs, delivers and evaluates innovative and exemplary behavioral health and social services in a manner that is both culturally and trauma competent, providing these services with…
We are a premier provider dedicated to healing children and young adults, strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality comprehensive services and advocacy. we envision a world in which children and young adults,…
Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.
The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…
Providing health care services to the poor and underserved of los angeles.
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Korean American Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shalom Disability Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
- Who funds HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds APEX FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds CORE ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE JESUS FAMILY LA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Open Stewardship Foundation · Kang Dream Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Koh Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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