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· Public charity
KWON'S FOUNDATION INC
Making distributions to qualified exempt organizations, support of community senior citizens and disabled people, and award of scholarships to students.
$145k
Granted FY2024
7
Grants
4
Communities
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of KWON'S FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2024 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
- THE SPENCE SCHOOL$35,000
- AMERICA WHEAT MISSION$14,208
- UN HERITAGE FOR KOREAN WAR$10,000
- KJ CHOI FOUNDATION INC$10,000
- WOMEN'S RIGHTS INFORMATION CENTER$9,500
- CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION$8,000
- THE SALVATION ARMY ENGLEWOOD CORPS$6,016
02The need
03
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$221k · 8 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
10
Total granted
$221k
$95k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+55%
+62%
Still filing today
88%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitInternationalOther
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
- TSTHE SPENCE SCHOOL3× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +7%
- KCKJ CHOI FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +55%
- WSWEST SIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOL2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- TLTHE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +63%
- DCDISABLED COMBAT VETERANS YOUTH PROGone grant, 2020 · $12k
- CSCOMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE OF TENAFLY ANDone grant, 2019 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Bergen Arts and Science Charter School
The mission of bergen arts and science charter school is to provide the ideal environment for the intellectual and social development of its students by utilizing a combined effort of students, educators, families and the community as a…
Education
2
Korean Community Services of
To support and assist members of the korean community to be healthy and productive individuals.
Human Services
3
West Nottingham Academy
Inspire and educate students to become socially aware leaders and innovators who positively impact their communities around the world
Education
4
The Winchendon School - Nyc
At the winchendon school, we equip each student with the essential skills and habits of mind to succeed in college and beyond.
Education
5
Thomas Jefferson School
Engaging students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world.
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6
Kellman Brown Academy
To empower each child to succeed through academic excellence, jewish values and personal growth
Education
7
Korean-American Association of
To enhance korean-american rights and to do charitable & fraternal activities in the state of new jersey.
Arts & Culture
8
Bronx Charter School
Bronx charter school for better learning provides its students with a solid foundation for academic success, through achievements that exceeds citywide averages and meets or exceeds new york state standards and national norms in all…
Education
9
The Williamsburg Charter High School
Operating a public charter high school in new york city.
Education
10
Westminster Foundation At Princeton Nj
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11
Brooklyn Charter School
The mission of the brooklyn charter school is to engage in a process of teaching and learning that inspires excellence in academic performance, encourages lifelong learning, builds self-respect and respect for others, and develops…
Education
12
The Bronx Charter School for
Elementary education grades kindergarten to seventh
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Korean American Family Service Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Charitable Foundation for Ft Lee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$173,860Education$65,000Human Services$37,606International$30,000Community Improvement$10,000Public Benefit$10,000
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 AMERICA WHEAT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KJ CHOI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RIGHTS INFORMATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION ↗
- Who funds MILAL MISSION IN NY ↗
- Who funds THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR FORT LEE ↗
- Who funds THE BROWNING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S PBA LOCAL 134 CIVIC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST SENIOR CENTER FOR INDEPEN ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICE ↗
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.
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 organisation KWON'S FOUNDATION INC 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +63% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 222088175 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 25% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Kwon's Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Kwon's Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines