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Open Stewardship Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$707k
Granted FY2025still arriving
89
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.7MHealth$588kReligion$397kInternational$246kPhilanthropy$215kEmployment$170kYouth Development$169kHousing & Shelter$140kOther$0
02FY2025 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k75 grants · $312k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PASADENA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$200,000
JEONHAM$50,000
EASTMONT COMMUNITY CENTER$20,000
AMERICAN WHEAT (MILAL) MISSION$15,000
GOOD NEIGHBORS USA$15,000
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS IN LOVE$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIES$10,000
HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION$10,000
HANMI FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER$10,000
GRACE COMMUNITY SERVICES$10,000
SHALOM CENTER FOR TREE OF LIFE$10,000
KOREAN AMERICAN SPEICAL EDUCATION$10,000
SOMANG SOCIETY$10,000
VISION CARE SERVICE WEST$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $912k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EPICENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%Home on the Green Pastures: $7k → 10%Home on the Green Pastures: $6k → 10%Hanmi Family Counseling Center: $10k → 10%Hanmi Family Counseling Center: $10k → 10%Hanmi Family Counseling Center: $10k → 10%Hanmi Family Counseling Center: $10k → 10%HANMI FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER: $10k → 10%HANMI FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER: $10k → 10%HANMI FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER: $9k → 10%Hanmi Family Counseling Center: $8k → 10%Hanmi Family Counseling Center: $8k → 10%Watered Garden Mission for Physically Challenged: $7k → 10%Watered Garden Mission for Physically Challenged: $7k → 10%EASTMONT COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 14%Mental Health Family Mission: $8k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%KOREAN RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $9k → 14%Korean Resource Center: $8k → 14%Hope Sight Mission Association: $8k → 14%KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%Korean American Women's Association (KAWA): $10k → 14%Korean American Women's Association (KAWA): $7k → 14%KOREAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $6k → 14%Shalom Life Line: $6k → 14%Hope Sight Mission Association: $10k → 14%Koreatown Senior and Community Center Inc: $10k → 14%Hope Sight Mission Association: $10k → 14%KOREAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $10k → 14%Koreatown Senior and Community Center Inc: $10k → 14%Hope Sight Mission Association: $10k → 14%Hope Sight Mission Association: $10k → 14%Koreatown Senior & Community Center: $10k → 14%Korea Town Senior & Community Center: $10k → 14%Koreatown Senior and Community Center Inc: $10k → 14%Hope Sight Mission Association: $8k → 14%Koreatown Senior and Community Center: $8k → 14%KOREAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $7k → 14%HAPPY VILLAGE: $7k → 14%YOUSTAR FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%HAPPY VILLAGE: $7k → 14%HAPPY VILLAGE: $7k → 14%Happy Village: $7k → 14%YOUSTAR FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%YOUSTAR FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%Happy Village: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 115 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

115 repeat relationships: 72 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
314

Total granted

$3.1M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+1%

Still filing today

58%
5%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionArts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HF
    HANMI FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +77%
  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICAN JOB TRAINING CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +55%
  • SS
    SOMANG SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +1%
  • JC
    Joy Center for the Disabled
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • AW
    America Wheat (Milal) Mission in Southern California
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Korean World Mission Council
Religion
2
Korean Pilgrim Baptist Church

Spiritual studies based on the word of God and missionary work.

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3
The San Diego Korean American Senior Center

Provide food and entertainment and education and assist to fill out documents to seniors

Human Services
4
Korea Buddhist Temple Jung Hye Sa

Religious service

Religion
5
First Korean United Methodist Church of Tacoma

Spiritual studies based on the word of God Missionary activity

—
6
Korean American Network International

To spread the gospel to the underserved countries

International
7
Korean Christian Mission Usa

Established website to provide sermons, seminars, and special events for christian communities

Religion
8
Joyful Korean Community Church

The mission of the church is to go into the world and make disciples by declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Spirit and gathering these disciples into churches, that they might worship the Lord and obey his commands now…

Religion
9
Korean American Senior Services Inc

Korean american senior citizens' community is helping each other and serving community.

—
10
Korean Fellowship Church Las Vegas

Church - to create a holy community of christ

Religion
11
Korean Hanbit Presbyterian Church

To operate a church to worship god, to preach the gospel of jesus

Religion
12
Korean Catholic Broadcasting Stationinc

To serve as an evangelization tool for the roman catholic church in korean-american society through broadcasting

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Korean American Special Education Center; the most unlike its peers is Family Saver Center. 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

100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 100 of the 446 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/100
Grantees still filing
56/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS IN LOVE: $122,000 · OtherCIRCLE OF FRIENDS IN LOVEKorean American Family Services (KFAM): $62,000 · OtherGRACE COMMUNITY SERVICE: $72,000 · OtherKOREAN AMERICAN COALITION: $60,000 · Other+135 more: $1,420,046 · Other+135 moreHOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $85,000 · Human ServicesHOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATIO…HANMI FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesHANMI FAMILY COUNSELING CENTE…KOREA TOWN SENIOR AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $58,000 · Human ServicesKOREA TOWN SENIOR AND COMMUNI…HOME ON THE GREEN PASTURES: $49,000 · Human ServicesMental Health Family Mission: $46,000 · Human ServicesHAPPY VILLAGE: $39,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN COUNSELING SERVICES: $38,000 · Human ServicesKOREAN AMERICAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION: $38,000 · Human ServicesKorean Resource Center Inc: $38,000 · Human ServicesFamily Saver Center: $38,000 · Human ServicesWatered Garden Mission for P C Inc: $34,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH BAY KO-AM SENIOR CENTER: $32,000 · Human Services+22 more: $374,000 · Human Services+22 moreUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $100,000 · InternationalVISION CARE SERVICE WEST: $76,000 · InternationalGOOD NEIGHBORS USA: $70,000 · InternationalSHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIES: $58,000 · ReligionJEONHAM: $50,000 · ReligionTHE WELL MISSION: $46,000 · ReligionCITY OF REFUGE MISSION CENTER: $22,000 · ReligionKorean American Dementia Center: $22,000 · ReligionDIVORCE RECOVERY MINISTRY INC: $15,000 · Religion+5 more: $29,000 · ReligionASIAN AMERICAN JOB TRAINING CENTER: $81,000 · EducationSOMANG SOCIETY: $76,000 · EducationINTELLICHOICE INC: $24,000 · EducationABC UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationWORLD MISSION UNIVERSITY: $8,000 · Education+1 more: $7,000 · EducationPasadena Community Foundation: $200,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyLOVE IN MUSIC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureKOA DANCE FEDERATION: $22,000 · Arts & CultureOASIS COMPANIES INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDREAM ORCHESTRA INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureKIDSINGERS: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,736,046Human Services$954,000International$246,000Religion$242,000Education$211,000Philanthropy$203,000Arts & Culture$107,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPasadena Community Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION: $85,000 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetHANMI FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER INC: $85,000 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN JOB TRAINING CENTER: $81,000 over 9y, 14% of budgetVISION CARE SERVICE WEST: $76,000 over 9y, 32% of budgetSOMANG SOCIETY: $76,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetGRACE COMMUNITY SERVICE: $72,000 over 9y, 10% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS USA: $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE IN MUSIC: $65,000 over 9y, 75% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN COALITION: $60,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetSHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIES: $58,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetKOREA TOWN SENIOR AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $58,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER: $54,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetJEONHAM: $50,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetKorean American Community Services Inc: $50,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetHOME ON THE GREEN PASTURES: $49,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetTHE WELL MISSION: $46,000 over 9y, 15% of budgetMental Health Family Mission: $46,000 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetSHALOM CENTER FOR TREE OF LIFE: $43,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHAPPY VILLAGE: $39,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN COUNSELING SERVICES: $38,000 over 9y, 7.9% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION: $38,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetKorean Resource Center Inc: $38,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetFamily Saver Center: $38,000 over 9y, 9.5% of budgetGOOD HANDS FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetWatered Garden Mission for P C Inc: $34,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetSOUTH BAY KO-AM SENIOR CENTER: $32,000 over 9y, 9.7% of budgetHYOSARANGUS MISSION: $31,000 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetLIVINGSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetYOUSTAR FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPAVA WORLD: $29,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LA: $27,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetACCOMPANY WORLDWIDE INC: $26,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetSHALOM LIFE LINE: $25,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetEIS FAMILY A38: $25,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetINTELLICHOICE INC: $24,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE MISSION CENTER: $22,000 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetKOA DANCE FEDERATION: $22,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetKorean American Dementia Center: $22,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGILGAL RECOVERY MINISTRY: $20,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetEastmont Community Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKorean American Seniors Association of OC: $18,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetKOREAN SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY: $17,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetFristers: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDIVORCE RECOVERY MINISTRY INC: $15,000 over 6y, 17% of budget
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 Pasadena Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds HOPE SIGHT MISSION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HANMI FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN JOB TRAINING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VISION CARE SERVICE WEST ↗
  • Who funds SOMANG SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GRACE COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS USA ↗
  • Who funds LOVE IN MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN COALITION ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds KOREA TOWN SENIOR AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JEONHAM ↗
  • Who funds Korean American Community Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOME ON THE GREEN PASTURES ↗
  • Who funds THE WELL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Mental Health Family Mission ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM CENTER FOR TREE OF LIFE ↗
  • Who funds HAPPY VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN COUNSELING SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Korean Resource Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Family Saver Center ↗
  • Who funds GOOD HANDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Watered Garden Mission for P C Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH BAY KO-AM SENIOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HYOSARANGUS MISSION ↗
  • Who funds LIVINGSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗

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.

Kang Dream FoundationSeoul Medical Charity…Korean-American Commu…Youngbum Song Foundat…Asian Pacific Communi…California Community …Korean American Found…Asian Americans Advan…Weingart FoundationTurbo Charitable Foun…Koh Charitable Founda…Council of Korean Ame…
Kang Dream FoundationCA36.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kang Dream Foundation · Seoul Medical Charity Foundation · Korean-American Community Foundation Inc · Youngbum Song Foundation · Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California · California Community Foundation · Korean American Foundation · Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California · Weingart Foundation · Turbo Charitable Foundation · Koh Charitable Foundation · Council of Korean Americans Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Open Stewardship Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Open Stewardship Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Open Stewardship Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Open Stewardship Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 446 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-PF 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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