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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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$308k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$3.2MCommunity Improvement$1.6MHealth$1.5MCivil Rights$1.3MCrime & Legal$1.1MHousing & Shelter$689kEmployment$506kEducation$475kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k19 grants · $485k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $308k
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Community Resource Exchange$308,000
Korean American Coalition 3727$75,000
Korean Amer Family Service Center$75,000
Little Tokyo Service Center$75,000
Asian Pacific Amer Legal Res Ctr$75,000
Karsh Family Social Service Center$65,000
Hanul Family Allaince 5008$65,000
Home on the Green Pastures$65,000
Korean Community Services$65,000
Asian Amer Legal Defense & Edu$65,000
AAPI Montclair Inc 30 Norman$65,000
MinKwon Ctr for Comm Action$65,000
Korean Town Senior & Comm Ctr 965$60,000
Being Built Together 1408 South$55,000
Stomach Cancer Task Force$55,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $5.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Woori Center: $76k → 7%Mustard Seed Generation 539: $50k → 14%New Mexico Asian Family Center: $50k → 14%Korean Community Services: $101k → 13%Hanul Family Allaince 5008: $65k → 14%KYCC 3727 W 6th Street: $75k → 14%Korean Comm Svcs of Metro NY: $100k → 13%Karsh Family Social Service Center: $65k → 14%Korean Community Services of Metropolitan: $100k → 13%KASCANJ 451 Grand Ave: $100k → 7%KFAM 3727 W 6th Street: $50k → 14%Korean Comm Svcs of Metro NY: $85k → 13%Korean Community Services: $65k → 13%Asian American Federation: $226k → 17%KASCANJ: $81k → 7%Korean Comm Svc Ctr of Greater Wash: $76k → 6%Asian American Federation: $180k → 17%HANA Center 4300 N: $76k → 14%Korean Community Center: $51k → 7%Korean Community Svc Ctr of Greater Washington: $50k → 6%Korean Town Senior & Comm Ctr 965: $88k → 14%Korean Comm Svcs of Metro NY: $63k → 13%Asian American Federation: $100k → 17%Korean Town Senior & Comm Ctr 965: $60k → 14%KAN-WIN 1440 Rennaisance: $161k → 14%Asian Women's Christian Assoc: $81k → 7%Chinese-Amer Planning Council: $83k → 17%Asian Women's Christian Assoc: $77k → 7%Chinese-Amer Planning Council: $60k → 17%Family Touch: $80k → 7%Chinese-Amer Planning Council: $55k → 17%Asian Women's Christian Assoc: $75k → 7%Korean Resource Center Inc 900: $100k → 14%Chinese Amer Planning Council: $210k → 17%Family Touch 218 Main Street: $80k → 7%Asian Women's Christian Association: $75k → 7%Family Touch 218 Main Street: $80k → 7%YWCA of Queens: $225k → 13%Asian Women's Christian Assoc: $59k → 7%Min Kwon Center for Community Action: $100k → 13%Min Kwon Center for Comm Action: $100k → 13%Min Kwon Center for Comm Action: $100k → 13%MinKwon Ctr for Comm Action: $65k → 13%Korean Amer Family Service Center: $226k → 13%Korean-Amer Family Service Center: $128k → 13%Korean-Amer Family Service Center: $100k → 13%Korean-Amer Family Service Center: $75k → 13%Korean Amer Family Service Center: $75k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DC
GA
TX
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 50 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
14

Total granted

$12M
$672k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+8%

Still filing today

96%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $677k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TK
    The Korean American Family Service Center Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $604k · revenue +107%
  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $536k · revenue +475%
  • KC
    KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $514k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue +157%
  • CR
    Communities Resist Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +20%
  • NA
    NAKASEC ACTION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue +164% · 28% of their budget
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
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
2
Korean American Association of Greater

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Korean Senior Citizens Association of San Fernando Valley
Recreation & Sports
4
The Asian-American Senior Citizen Association
Human Services
5
Korean Community Center of the East Bay

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.

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6
Korean Community Development Services Center

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…

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7
Caaav Voice Inc

CAAAV Voice is a grassroot organization aiming to empower Asian immigrant communities by organizing against gentrification, tenant rights and promote social justice.

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8
The Korean American Association of Greater New York Inc

Helping south korean immigrants to settle down in the greater new york area as korean-american citizens and promote activities for unity and healthy social relationships.

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9
Korean American Leaders in Hollywood

We empower and celebrate korean americans shaping the future of entertainment and media. through advocacy community and collaboration, we champion emerging talent and leaders, and bridge korea and the global market advancing korean…

Arts & Culture
10
Korean Culture Center of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
11
San Francisco & Bay Area Korea Center

The mission of the korean american community center of san francisco and bay area (kaccsf) is to build community and enhance the quality of life for the korean american residents in the san francisco and bay area. we are a place-based…

Human Services
12
Korean Women's Association

Kwa partners with diverse communities to empower individuals to live safe and dignified lives.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Korean American Family Service Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Home On the Green Pastures. 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

72 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. 72 of the 77 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/72
Grantees still filing
41/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Korean American Family Service Center Inc: $603,594 · Human ServicesThe Korean American Family Service Center I…ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC: $536,094 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INCKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC: $513,594 · Human ServicesKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN N…MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $424,000 · Human ServicesMINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INCCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $417,500 · Human ServicesCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INCASIAN WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $366,862 · Human ServicesASIAN WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INCTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF QUEENS: $295,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF …FAMILY TOUCH INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesKAN-WIN: $225,944 · Human ServicesKOREAN AMERICAN SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION OF NJ CORPORATION: $205,862 · Human Services+16 more: $1,252,475 · Human Services+16 moreASIAN AMERICANS FOR EQUALITY INC: $310,000 · OtherASIAN AMERICANS FOR EQUALITY …THE FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $301,094 · OtherTHE FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER …NEW YORK ASIAN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $240,000 · OtherNEW YORK ASIAN WOMEN'S CENTER…New Beginning for Special Needs Inc: $180,000 · OtherHAMKAE CENTER: $150,000 · OtherKorean American Community Services Inc: $135,000 · OtherTHE PHILIP JAISOHN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $125,862 · OtherNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $125,000 · OtherKorean Amer Special Edu Ctr 1661: $125,000 · OtherSOUTHSIDE UNITED HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $187,500 · OtherSOUTHSIDE UNITED HOUSING DEVE…LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $175,000 · OtherGIVE CHANCES INC: $230,000 · OtherGIVE CHANCES INCSOMANG SOCIETY: $135,000 · OtherGMA AMERICA INC: $149,000 · Other+16 more: $864,212 · Other+16 moreCOMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC: $1,129,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY RESO…RENAISSANCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $430,000 · Community ImprovementRENAISSANCE EC…KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $150,000 · Community ImprovementKOREAN IMMIGRA…+1 more: $42,000 · Community ImprovementADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC: $400,000 · Civil RightsADVOCACY I…KOREAN AMERICAN CIVIC EMPOWERMENT FOR COMMUNITY INC: $221,094 · Civil RightsKOREAN AME…NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM: $170,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL A…KOREAN AMERICAN COALITION: $125,000 · Civil RightsKOREAN AME…Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc: $115,000 · Civil RightsCommittee …NATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $114,537 · Civil RightsNATIONAL K…NAKASEC ACTION FUND: $70,000 · Civil RightsNAKASEC AC…BERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE INC: $353,594 · HealthNEXT HARM REDUCTION INC: $125,000 · HealthPENN ASIAN SENIOR SERVICES INC: $125,000 · HealthESTHER HA FOUNDATION INC: $96,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY INCLUSION AND DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $420,094 · EmploymentCHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT INC: $185,000 · EmploymentASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $225,000 · Crime & LegalAsian Pacific American Legal: $125,000 · Crime & LegalASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $120,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$5,090,925Other$3,432,668Community Improvement$1,751,500Civil Rights$1,215,631Health$709,594Employment$605,094Crime & Legal$470,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC: $1,129,500 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetThe Korean American Family Service Center Inc: $603,594 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC: $536,094 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC: $513,594 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetRENAISSANCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $430,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetMINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $424,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INCLUSION AND DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $420,094 over 5y, 22% of budgetCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $417,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC: $400,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetASIAN WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $366,862 over 5y, 15% of budgetBERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE INC: $353,594 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS FOR EQUALITY INC: $310,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $301,094 over 3y, 75% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF QUEENS: $295,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetFAMILY TOUCH INC: $250,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetNEW YORK ASIAN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $240,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetGIVE CHANCES INC: $230,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetKAN-WIN: $225,944 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $225,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN CIVIC EMPOWERMENT FOR COMMUNITY INC: $221,094 over 4y, 34% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION OF NJ CORPORATION: $205,862 over 3y, 46% of budgetSOUTHSIDE UNITED HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $187,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT INC: $185,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetNew Beginning for Special Needs Inc: $180,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $175,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM: $170,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGMA AMERICA INC: $149,000 over 5y, 73% of budgetKOREA TOWN SENIOR AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $148,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSOMANG SOCIETY: $135,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetKorean American Community Services Inc: $135,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $126,094 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE PHILIP JAISOHN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $125,862 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN COALITION: $125,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetNEXT HARM REDUCTION INC: $125,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKorean Resource Center Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetPENN ASIAN SENIOR SERVICES INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAsian Pacific American Legal: $125,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $120,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HANA CENTER: $116,425 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWOORI CENTER: $115,862 over 2y, 15% of budgetCommittee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc: $115,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $115,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $114,537 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $110,712 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO: $105,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCommunities Resist Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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.

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.

Ny Nanum Foundation I…GofundmeorgThe Asian American Fo…Robin Hood FoundationAsian American Coalit…Asian American Federa…Asian Americans Advan…Amalgamated Charitabl…The Ong Family Founda…Open Stewardship Foun…The Scherman Foundati…Nae Il Foundation Ltd
Ny Nanum Foundation IncNJ30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Korean-American Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Korean-American Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Give Chances Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 77 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 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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The camps
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