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Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California

To strengthen the power of immigrant workers, tenants, and their families to shape their lives, workplaces, homes, communities, cities, and world. KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (kiwa) seeks to develop a membership base that supports the kiwa's mission and to develop the leadership of workers, particularly…

$655k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
53%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 17
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$7.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EmploymentCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2025still arriving16$655k31%
FY202417$381k53%
FY202313$482k77%
FY20226$114kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Employment$582kCommunity Improvement$324kCivil Rights$278kHuman Services$172kHousing & Shelter$73kPublic Benefit$66kHealth$45kEducation$41kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ltsc Community Development Corporation$302,50040%
Warehouse Worker Resource Center$215,75032%
Chinese Progressive Association$135,00030%
Center on Policy Initiatives$130,00033%
Jobs with Justice San Francisco$112,00034%
Powerswitch Action$72,77430%
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy$55,00031%
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United Inc$53,25021%
Los Angeles Black Worker Center$51,25020%
Yes on Measure Ula United to House La$50,0001n/a
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All grantees of Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ltsc Community Development Corporation$302,50040%
Warehouse Worker Resource Center$215,75032%
Chinese Progressive Association$135,00030%
Center on Policy Initiatives$130,00033%
Jobs with Justice San Francisco$112,00034%
Powerswitch Action$72,77430%
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy$55,00031%
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United Inc$53,25021%
Los Angeles Black Worker Center$51,25020%
Yes on Measure Ula United to House La$50,0001n/a
Pilipino Workers Center of Southern$49,50011%
Collins Foundations$38,7501n/a
National Employment Law Project$36,00020%
United for Respect$35,500288%
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy$32,50020%
Right to the City Alliance$30,00020%
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action$30,0001n/a
World Food Bank Kitchen and Urban F Arm$26,000120%
Saje$21,25020%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc$15,00010%
Regents Univ of California$14,1791n/a
Step Forward Foundation$14,10011%
Working Partnerships USA$12,5001n/a
Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project$12,00010%
United Ways of California$11,25010%
La Family Housing Corporation$11,25010%
Tenemos Que Reclamar y Unidos Salvar la Tierra-South La$11,25010%
ACCE Institute$11,25010%
Worksafe Inc$11,00011%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLtsc Community Development Corporation: $302,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWarehouse Worker Resource Center: $215,750 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetChinese Progressive Association: $135,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCenter on Policy Initiatives: $130,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetJobs with Justice San Francisco: $112,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetPowerswitch Action: $72,774 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy: $55,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetRestaurant Opportunities Centers United Inc: $53,250 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLos Angeles Black Worker Center: $51,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPilipino Workers Center of Southern: $49,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNational Employment Law Project: $36,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUnited for Respect: $35,500 over 2y, 88% of budgetLos Angeles Alliance for a New Economy: $32,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRight to the City Alliance: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Food Bank Kitchen and Urban F Arm: $26,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetSaje: $21,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStep Forward Foundation: $14,100 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Ways of California: $11,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Family Housing Corporation: $11,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTenemos Que Reclamar y Unidos Salvar la Tierra-South La: $11,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetACCE Institute: $11,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWorksafe Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 24.

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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.

The James Irvine Foun…The San Francisco Fou…The California Endowm…Liberty Hill Foundati…Weingart FoundationThe California Wellne…Working Partnerships …United Way IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Silicon Valley Commun…California Community …Powerswitch Action
The James Irvine FoundationCA29.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The James Irvine Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The California Endowment · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Working Partnerships USA · United Way Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Powerswitch Action

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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About Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California

How much does Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California give?
Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California reported 16 grants totaling $654,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 17 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (36%), Community Improvement (20%), Civil Rights (17%).
Who are Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Ltsc Community Development Corporation ($303k), Warehouse Worker Resource Center ($216k), Chinese Progressive Association ($135k).
Does Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The James Irvine Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, The California Endowment.
Where is Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California based?
Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California 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 30 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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