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Ronnie Park Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$170k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0157% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$206kEducation$156kYouth Development$68kReligion$50kFood & Nutrition$13kRecreation & Sports$11kInternational$10kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RONNIE AND HEEJIN FOUNDATION$100,000
PARK BROWN FAMILY FOUNDATION$50,000
SPRING WATER CHURCH$10,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
JESUS FAMILY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JOSHUA PARK: $1k → 16%AARON NAM: $1k → 10%HYEWON LEE: $1k → 14%NATHAN NAM: $1k → 20%NUSKIN FORCE FOR GOOD FOUNATION: $83k → 8%WOOJIN NAM: $1k → 14%DANIEL PARK: $1k → 8%JOYCE KOO: $1k → 10%VALENCIA SPRING WATER CHURCH: $7k → 14%NUSKIN FORCE FOR GOOD FOUNDATION: $23k → 8%IVY HAEBIN KIM: $1k → 10%VALENCIA SPRING WATER CHURCH: $4k → 14%NUSKIN FORCE FOR GOOD FOUNDATION: $17k → 8%THE RONNIE AND HEEJIN FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%JESUS FAMILY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $3k → 14%NUSKIN FORCE FOR GOOD FOUNATION: $11k → 8%TAEHYEK YIM: $1k → 10%JESUS FAMILY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $2k → 14%JOSHUA OH: $1k → 10%TIMOTHY LEE: $2k → 14%TAEHYEK YIM: $1k → 10%LAUREN M LEE: $2k → 14%JESUS FAMILY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 14%JESUS FAMILY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 14%HYUN YOUNG CHO: $1k → 14%Jesus Family Presbyterian Church: $1k → 14%CHRISTINE LEE: $1k → 14%TIMOTHY LEE: $1k → 14%SUNG MIN PARK: $1k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUM: $2k → 14%SPRING WATER CHURCH: $15k → 14%SPRING WATER CHURCH: $10k → 14%SPRING WATER CHURCH: $7k → 14%LAUREN LEE: $2k → 14%EDUCATION FOR NEXT GENERATION ORGANIZATION: $5k → 14%JONATHAN BAE: $2k → 14%ISAAC MINHYU BAE: $2k → 14%ISAAC PAIK: $2k → 14%YOUTH VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION: $28k → 14%WESTERN KENDO FEDERATION: $11k → 14%YOUTH VOLUNTEERS ORGANIZATION: $10k → 14%YOUTH VOLUNTEERS ORGANIZATION: $10k → 14%YOUTH VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION: $10k → 14%YOUTH VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION: $10k → 14%ARPAN FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE RONNIE AND HEEJIN FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%PARK BROWN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%HAPPYBEAN FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$436k · 15 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
23

Total granted

$436k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+147%

Still filing today

7%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

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

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

  • TR
    THE RONNIE AND HEEJIN FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $150k
  • TN
    THE NU SKIN FORCE FOR GOOD FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2022 · $133k · revenue +21%
  • YV
    YOUTH VOLUNTEERS ORGANIZATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $68k

Funded once

  • HF
    HAPPYBEAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
  • AF
    Arpan Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +147%
  • N
    NBMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field
04the grantee network

4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE RONNIE AND HEEJIN FOUNDATION — $150,000 · OtherTHE RONNIE AND HEEJIN FOUNDATIONYOUTH VOLUNTEERS ORGANIZATION — $68,000 · OtherYOUTH VOLUNTEERS ORGANIZATIONPARK BROWN FAMILY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherPARK BROWN FAMILY FOUNDATIONSPRING WATER CHURCH — $31,500 · OtherSPRING WATER CHURCH+40 more — $114,223 · Other+40 moreTHE NU SKIN FORCE FOR GOOD FOUNDATION — $132,500 · EducationTHE NU SKIN FORCE FOR GOOD FO…Arpan Foundation Inc — $10,000 · EducationArpan Foundation Inc
Other$413,723Education$142,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NU SKIN FORCE FOR GOOD FOUNDATION — $132,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetArpan Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEDUCATION FOR NEXT GENERATION ORGANIZATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUM — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 THE NU SKIN FORCE FOR GOOD FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Arpan Foundation Inc
  • Who funds EDUCATION FOR NEXT GENERATION ORGANIZATION
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUM

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ronnie Park Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ronnie Park Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ronnie Park 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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