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Korean American Foundation

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$330k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$300k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$4.4M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$220kPhilanthropy$220kHuman Services$190kYouth Development$45kArts & Culture$20kCivil Rights$20kFood & Nutrition$10kCommunity Improvement$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Korean American Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAbilityfirst: $110,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKorean American Special Education Center: $110,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetKorea Town Senior and Community Center Inc: $90,492 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetKorean American Federation of La: $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetKoreatown Youth and Community Center: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKorean American Family Services Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKoreanamericanstoryorg Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetKorean American Coalition: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetZion Mountain Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKorean American Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLos Angeles Regional Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 12.

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 Stewardship FoundationCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Open Stewardship Foundation · Kang Dream Foundation · Korean-American Community Foundation Inc · Seoul Medical Charity Foundation · Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California · Gofundmeorg · California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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Find your warmest path to Korean American Foundation 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 Foundation

How much does Korean American Foundation give?
Korean American Foundation reported 12 itemized grants totaling $300,492, out of $330,492 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Korean American Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (30%), Philanthropy (30%), Human Services (26%).
Who are Korean American Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Abilityfirst ($110k), Korean American Special Education Center ($110k), Korea Town Senior and Community Center Inc ($90k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Korean American Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Open Stewardship Foundation, Kang Dream Foundation, Korean-American Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Korean American Foundation based?
Korean American Foundation 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 13 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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