New York · Community foundation
Korean-American Community Foundation Inc
Kacf provides grants and capacity building assistance to organizations working to address the most pressing needs in the korean american community and beyond. To the supporters, kacf provides a way to magnify the impact of their giving and to build bridges across generations and communities.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $308,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 43
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Korean-American Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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 | 40 | $2.0M | 30% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $4.6M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $2.0M | 48% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $1.8M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $1.8M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $992k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Resource Exchange Inc | $1,129,500 | 6 | 10% |
| The Korean American Family Service Center Inc | $603,594 | 5 | 5% |
| Asian American Federation Inc | $536,094 | 6 | 2% |
| Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York Inc | $513,594 | 6 | 1% |
| Renaissance Economic Development Corporation | $430,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Minkwon Center for Community Action Inc | $424,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Community Inclusion and Development Alliance Inc | $420,094 | 5 | 22% |
| Chinese-American Planning Council Inc | $417,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Advocacy Institute Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Asian Women's Christian Association Inc | $366,862 | 5 | 15% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Korean-American Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 66 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Ny Nanum Foundation Inc · Gofundmeorg · The Asian American Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Asian American Coalition for Children and Families Inc · Asian American Federation Inc · Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ong Family Foundation Co Law Office · Open Stewardship Foundation · The Scherman Foundation Inc · Nae Il Foundation Ltd
How this is measured
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About Korean-American Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Korean-American Community Foundation Inc give?
- Korean-American Community Foundation Inc reported 40 grants totaling $1,996,114 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Korean-American Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Community Improvement (14%), Health (13%).
- Who are Korean-American Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Community Resource Exchange Inc ($1.1M), The Korean American Family Service Center Inc ($604k), Asian American Federation Inc ($536k).
- Does Korean-American Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Korean-American Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ny Nanum Foundation Inc, Gofundmeorg, The Asian American Foundation.
- Where is Korean-American Community Foundation Inc based?
- Korean-American Community Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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