· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $52k
- $50k–250k40 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Korean Amer Family Service Center | $226,094 |
| FCCGW 1952 Gallows | $226,094 |
| Asian American Federation | $226,094 |
| YWCA of Queens | $225,000 |
| Community Resource Exchange | $220,500 |
| Chinese Amer Planning Council | $210,000 |
| Community Inclusion & Dev Alliance | $181,094 |
| KAN-WIN 1440 Rennaisance | $160,944 |
| New Beginning for Special Needs | $150,000 |
| WomanKind | $150,000 |
| Renaissance Econ Dev Corp | $150,000 |
| KACE | $141,094 |
| Asian Americans for Equality | $140,000 |
| Korean Community Services | $101,094 |
| Philip Jaisohn Memorial Fdtn | $100,862 |
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 (FY20–24, $4.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
- TKThe Korean American Family Service Center Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $529k · revenue +107%
- AAASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $526k · revenue +475%
- KCKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $449k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- NYNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue +157%
- CRCommunities Resist Incone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +20%
- NANAKASEC ACTION FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue +164% · 28% of their budget
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.
We advocate for the rights of Korean-american and promote the well-being and prosperity of the Korean-American community. We conduct activities to promote unity and fellowship, community participation, provide educational and social…
CAAAV Voice is a grassroot organization aiming to empower Asian immigrant communities by organizing against gentrification, tenant rights and promote social justice.
Korean community development services centers (kcdsc) mission is to provide the members of our community with support services that they need to achieve personal growth and pursue community growth. kcdsc also provides services to…
Kwa partners with diverse communities to empower individuals to live safe and dignified lives.
The mission of KCCEB is to empower the Korean American and other communities of the Bay Area through education, advocacy, service and the development of community-based resources.
The mission of asian americans advancing justice-aajc (aajc) is to advance civil and human rights for asian americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all.
The mission of korean culture center of new york, inc. is to promote and organize korean cultural, arts, educational, and social activities. it aims to establish a venue where all korean americans and other groups can participate in…
Promote the status of the korean community in mainstream american society, advance civil rights for korean americans, guide the transition of newly arrived korean immigrants, provide job-market information.
We aspire to a world in which korean american leaders serve at the highest levels in society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Korean American Family Service Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 65 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 COMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds The Korean American Family Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INCLUSION AND DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds BERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS FOR EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF QUEENS ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds FAMILY TOUCH INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ASIAN WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION OF NJ CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN CIVIC EMPOWERMENT FOR COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds KAN-WIN ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE UNITED HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE CHANCES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM ↗
- Who funds New Beginning for Special Needs Inc ↗
- Who funds GMA AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SOMANG SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE HANA CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOORI CENTER ↗
- Who funds Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE PHILIP JAISOHN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEXT HARM REDUCTION 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: 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
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 Korean-American Community Foundation Inc 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.
- Give Chances Inc — 3% of income from government
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.