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Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco

The KOREAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO uplifts and connects the korean-american community through philanthropy.

$448k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$420k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$3.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$320k9%
FY202310$390k20%
FY202210$427k10%
FY20219$320k22%
FY20207$265k29%
FY20199$288k11%
FY20187$314k29%
FY20179$297kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.2MHealth$1.1MHousing & Shelter$189kCrime & Legal$188kArts & Culture$60kCommunity Improvement$30kYouth Development$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKorean Community Center of the East Bay: $630,403 over 7y, 15% of budgetThe Asian Americans for Community Involvement of Santa Clara County Inc: $596,445 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetKorean American Community Services Inc: $310,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetMei Fong and Associates Aws: $241,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetNihonmachi Legal Outreach Dba Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach: $187,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetAsian Health Services: $95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEast Bay Korean American Senior Services Center: $80,500 over 6y, 34% of budgetKorean Center Incorporated: $80,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetKorean American Senior Citizens League of Santa Clara: $64,900 over 6y, 26% of budgetNami Santa Clara County: $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetKorean American Senior Services Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetKorean American Family Services Inc: $33,808 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRichmond Area Multi-Services Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFulcrum Arts: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKoreatown Youth and Community Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGyopo: $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSimple Steps Community Connection: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Asian Pacific FundCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Asian Pacific Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · Open Stewardship Foundation · Women's Foundation of California · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · United Way of the Bay Area · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco?

Find your warmest path to Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco 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.

About Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco

How much does Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco give?
Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco reported 12 itemized grants totaling $420,000, out of $447,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (43%), Health (40%), Housing & Shelter (7%).
Who are Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Korean Community Center of the East Bay ($630k), The Asian Americans for Community Involvement of Santa Clara County Inc ($596k), Korean American Community Services Inc ($310k).
Does Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Asian Pacific Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
Where is Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco based?
Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco is based in CA.

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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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