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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of KOREAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $420,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $447,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASIAN AMER COMM INVOLVEMENT | $100,000 |
| KOR AMERICAN COMM FOUNDATIO | $100,000 |
| KOREAN CENTER INC | $30,000 |
| ASIAN PAC ISLANDER LEGAL | $30,000 |
| KOR COMM CTR OF EAST BAY | $30,000 |
| KOREAN AMERICAN COMM SVCS | $30,000 |
| ASIAN WOMENS SHELTER | $30,000 |
| KOREATOWN YOUTH & COM KYCCLA | $20,000 |
| FULCRUM ARTS | $15,000 |
| TAKEROOT | $15,000 |
| KOR AMER SNR CITIZENS LG | $10,000 |
| EAST BAY KOREAN AM SNR SVCS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% 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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
KOREAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY7× · 2017–2024 · $630k · revenue +502%- TATHE ASIAN AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $596k · revenue +139%
- KAKorean American Community Services Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $310k · revenue +213%
Funded once
- VVariousone grant, 2019 · $57k
- RARICHMOND AREA MULTI-SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +96%
- GGYOPOgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +39%
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.
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…
The korean american community foundation of san francisco uplifts and connects the korean-american community through philanthropy.
Dedicated to building connections between intergenerational korean-americans and the greater community by promoting opportunities for appreciation of korea's rich cultural heritage. we aim to integrate others of various backgrounds that…
To promote the civic and civil rights interests of the Korean American community through 3 main pillars of focus: non-partisan civic engagement and community advocacy, alternative dispute resolution, and leadership development. To build…
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…
The mission of Asian American Community Center of Santa Clara County (AASC) is to provide health, human, and economic development services to low income families and individuals to enable them to become actively participating citizens in…
The Korean Service Center is dedicated to provide needed resources and services to vulnerable Koreans and other immigrant-Americans while striving to promote their rich cultural heritage for all international people.
Coordinate pro bono legal aid for victims of anti-Asian violence.
Our NonProfit is committed to strengthening the Korean and Korean-American community in the East Bay by fostering cultural pride, social welfare and political engagement. Through education, advocacy and active participation in commununity…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Korean American Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Simple Steps Community Connection. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 21 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 KOREAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY ↗
- Who funds THE ASIAN AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Korean American Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds MEI FONG AND ASSOCIATES AWS ↗
- Who funds NIHONMACHI LEGAL OUTREACH DBA ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER LEGAL OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds KOREAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY KOREAN AMERICAN SENIOR SERVICES CENTER ↗
- Who funds KOREAN CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Korean American Senior Citizens League of Santa Clara ↗
- Who funds NAMI SANTA CLARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND AREA MULTI-SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FULCRUM ARTS ↗
- Who funds KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GYOPO ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area ↗
- Who funds SIMPLE STEPS COMMUNITY CONNECTION ↗
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: 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
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 of San Francisco 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.
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.
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