New Jersey · Private foundation
Korean American Buddhist Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $77k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $19,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $840k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Korean American Buddhist Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $77k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $99k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $63k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $62k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $103k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $73k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $86k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $60k | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for Food Action in New Jersey | $35,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $22,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $16,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Providence Zen Center | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of Ai Kwang Won Inc | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Bo Kwang Sah Inc | $5,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Bud Zen Center | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| So Shim Sa Zen Center Inc | $3,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for Food Action in New Jersey | $35,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $22,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $16,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Providence Zen Center | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of Ai Kwang Won Inc | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Bo Kwang Sah Inc | $5,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Bud Zen Center | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| So Shim Sa Zen Center Inc | $3,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Living Water Baptist Church | $2,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Hye Ahn Meditation Center | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Korean School of New York Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 2% |
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($545k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
Compare Korean American Buddhist Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Korean American Buddhist Foundation Inc
- How much does Korean American Buddhist Foundation Inc give?
- Korean American Buddhist Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $76,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Korean American Buddhist Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (51%), Education (21%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Korean American Buddhist Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Chicago ($60k), Center for Food Action in New Jersey ($36k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($23k).
- Does Korean American Buddhist Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Korean American Buddhist Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Korean American Buddhist Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Korean American Buddhist Foundation Inc based?
- Korean American Buddhist Foundation Inc is based in NJ.
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