· Community foundation
Korean American Foundation
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $300,492 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $330,492 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,000 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 · $150k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Korean American Special Education Center | $100,000 |
| Koreatown Senior & Community Center | $50,000 |
| Zion Mountain Foundation | $20,000 |
| Korean American Story Inc | $20,000 |
| Korean American Coalition | $20,000 |
| Anderson Munger Family YMCA | $20,000 |
| Korean American Family Services | $20,000 |
| Koreatown Senior & Community Center | $10,492 |
| Koreatown Youth & Community Center | $10,000 |
| Koreatown Senior & Community Center | $10,000 |
| Koreatown Youth & Community Center | $10,000 |
| The Korean American Federation of Los Angeles | $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 (FY23–24, $345k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- KAKOREAN AMERICAN SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $110k · revenue +37%
- KTKOREA TOWN SENIOR AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +74%
- KYKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- AABILITYFIRSTone grant, 2023 · $110k · revenue -9%
- KAKOREAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF LOS ANGELESone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +22%
- LALOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +6%
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 korean american community foundation of san francisco uplifts and connects the korean-american community through philanthropy.
Kacf provides grants and capacity building assistance to organizations working to address the most pressing needs in the korean american community and beyond. to the supporters, kacf provides a way to magnify the impact of their giving and…
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…
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…
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…
To promote networking among members and protect the interests and businesses of the Korean American Commuity in Orange County.
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The organization promotes projects and programs that provide culturally and professionally competent services to populations in need. organization believes that healthier individuals and communities result from a combination of outreach,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Koreatown Youth and Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Zion Mountain Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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.
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 CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ABILITYFIRST ↗
- Who funds KOREA TOWN SENIOR AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LA ↗
- Who funds KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KOREANAMERICANSTORYORG INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds ZION MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
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: 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
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 Foundation 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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