New York · Private foundation
Kwon Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $72k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $28,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 33
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $218k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Kwon Foundation Inc 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; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $72k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $50k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $37k | 68% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $57k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $44k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Korean American Scholarship Foundation | $73,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Light & Love Ny Inc | $10,500 | 5 | 8% |
| Korean Chinese Mission Church | $6,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Korean American Civic Empowerment for Community Inc | $5,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Skk Alumni Association of Ny Inc | $5,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Pinehurst Foundation | $4,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Ohio Northern University | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Young Women's Christian Association of Queens | $2,200 | 2 | 0% |
| New Brunswick Theological Seminary | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Defense Forum Foundation Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($138k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kwon Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Kwon Foundation Inc
- How much does Kwon Foundation Inc give?
- Kwon Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $71,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 33 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Kwon Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (57%), Religion (23%), International (9%).
- Who are Kwon Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The Korean American Scholarship Foundation ($73k), Light & Love Ny Inc ($11k), Korean Chinese Mission Church ($6k).
- Does Kwon Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kwon Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kwon Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Kwon Foundation Inc based?
- Kwon Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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