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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.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$290kEducation$244kPhilanthropy$235kReligion$211kHuman Services$79kHousing & Shelter$65kYouth Development$29kCivil Rights$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CORE: $2k → 10%KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $3k → 10%CORE: $2k → 10%KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $2k → 10%CORE: $1k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $2k → 10%CORE: $500 → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $2k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $2k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $2k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $2k → 10%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $5k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $5k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $5k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $2k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $5k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $2k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $5k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $2k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $5k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $2k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $5k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $2k → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 33 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
3

Total granted

$1.1M
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
0%

Still filing today

42%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyReligionCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +63%
  • SD
    SHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +34%
  • TP
    THE PEOPLE CONCERN
    6× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +696%

Funded once

  • KA
    KOREAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $110k · revenue ×12
  • CM
    CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2025 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • TL
    THE LITTLE JESUS FAMILY LA INC
    one grant, 2025 · $4k · revenue -1%
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
The Center in Hollywood

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…

Human Services
2
Healthright 360

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…

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3
Community Research Foundation Inc

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…

Unclassified
4
Hillsides

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,…

Human Services
5
Housing Works

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

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,…

Crime & Legal
7
University of Southern California

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…

Education
8
Wayfinder Family Services

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…

Human Services
9
Via Care Community Health Center

Providing health care services to the poor and underserved of los angeles.

Health
10
Allies for Every Child Inc

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)

Human Services
11
Interval House

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…

Human Services
12
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

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.…

Health
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 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFO: $110,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFOLos Angeles County Epilepsy Foundat: $85,000 · OtherLos Angeles County Epilepsy FoundatMILAL MISSION IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNI: $55,000 · OtherMILAL MISSION IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIKOREAN AMERICAN SPECIAL EDUCATION C: $49,000 · OtherKOREAN AMERICAN SPECIAL EDUCATION CUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CA NAI: $45,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CA NAICOLLEGE VIEW: $40,000 · OtherCOLLEGE VIEWBRENTWOOD FUND: $35,000 · OtherBRENTWOOD FUNDKOREAN CATHOLIC ASSOCIATES OF LA: $30,000 · OtherMAKING THE RIGHT CONNECTION: $27,500 · OtherKOREATOWN SENIOR AND COMMUNITY CENT: $26,000 · OtherPIME MISSIONARIES: $25,000 · Other+8 more: $83,500 · Other+8 moreKOREAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $110,000 · PhilanthropyKOREAN AMERICAN FO…UNITED WAY INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY INC+2 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $140,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MED…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MED…VISION TO LEARN: $8,000 · Health+1 more: $4,000 · HealthTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE …HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $32,500 · Human ServicesHOPE SIGHT …THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGH…Paws With A Cause: $15,000 · Human ServicesPaws With A…KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesKOREAN AMER…CORE: $5,500 · Human ServicesSHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIES: $47,500 · ReligionFAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT: $15,000 · ReligionORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $16,000 · Crime & LegalAPEX FOR YOUTH INC: $13,000 · Community ImprovementWORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Education
Other$611,000Philanthropy$200,000Health$172,000Human Services$128,000Religion$62,500Crime & Legal$16,000Community Improvement$13,000Education$12,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $140,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIES: $47,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $32,500 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $25,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPaws With A Cause: $15,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAPEX FOR YOUTH INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 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.

  • 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 HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LITTLE JESUS FAMILY LA 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…Kang Dream FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Open Stewardship FoundationCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Open Stewardship Foundation · Kang Dream Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    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 · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Koh Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Koh Charitable 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 38 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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