· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KOREAN AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDAT | $28,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR SKK UN | $13,000 |
| STUMP MISSION NY INC | $5,500 |
| LIGHT & LOVE NY INC | $4,500 |
| TREE OF LIFE PRESBYT CHURCH | $3,000 |
| KOREAN AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDAT | $3,000 |
| YALE PRESYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,600 |
| PINEHURST FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| OREGON WOMEN PRISON MINISTRY | $1,500 |
| KOREAN ALUMNI ASSOC OF NBTS INC | $1,000 |
| DENVER SEMINARY | $1,000 |
| KOREAN CHINESE MISSION CHURCH | $1,000 |
| NEW BRUNSWICK THEOLOGY SEMINARY | $1,000 |
| PRES RHEE SYNGMAN MEMORIAL ASSOC | $1,000 |
| OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Kwon Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 32% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 25%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TKTHE KOREAN AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $73k · revenue +37%
- LLLIGHT & LOVE NY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +42%
- KAKOREAN AMERICAN CIVIC EMPOWERMENT FOR COMMUNITY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- KMKASF MOUNTAIN REGIONAL CHAPTERone grant, 2024 · $5k
- KMKASA MOUNTAIN REGIONAL CHAPTERone grant, 2023 · $4k
- TDThe Defense Forum Foundation Incone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +22%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
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We support, through philanthropic efforts, the improvement of urological care globally by funding research, clinical education, patient education, and humanitarian programs.
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How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 76 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE KOREAN AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHT & LOVE NY INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN CIVIC EMPOWERMENT FOR COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PINEHURST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ohio Northern University ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF QUEENS ↗
- Who funds The Defense Forum Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUMP OVERSEAS MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN LANGUAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN GRASSROOTS CONFERENCE INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kwon Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kwon Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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