California · Private foundation
Shemastella Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 72%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $700,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 72% of the organizations Shemastella Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $680k 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 | 24 | $2.1M | 54% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $878k | 72% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $654k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $1.4M | 64% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $303k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $143k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daesalim USA | $700,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kkottongnae Inc | $430,000 | 4 | 14% |
| Korean Martyrs Catholic Center | $157,000 | 5 | n/a |
| St Thomas Korean Catholic Center | $46,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Asociacion Mirine | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Home on the Green Pastures | $30,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Korean Community Services Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Christus Corp | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Spirit Filled Hearts Ministry Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Charity Foundation for African Catholic Mission | $12,600 | 1 | 8% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daesalim USA | $700,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kkottongnae Inc | $430,000 | 4 | 14% |
| Korean Martyrs Catholic Center | $157,000 | 5 | n/a |
| St Thomas Korean Catholic Center | $46,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Asociacion Mirine | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Home on the Green Pastures | $30,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Korean Community Services Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Christus Corp | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Spirit Filled Hearts Ministry Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Charity Foundation for African Catholic Mission | $12,600 | 1 | 8% |
| The Spectrum of Hope Foundation | $12,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Korea Town Senior and Community Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Korean American Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Good Hands Foundation | $4,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Grace Korean Church | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Soon Movement Global | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Global Children Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hi Mission | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Onesimus Ministry | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hufs Lagceo | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Oba Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Raising Bright Youth Project | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shemastella Foundation 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: Kang Dream Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Shemastella Foundation
- How much does Shemastella Foundation give?
- Shemastella Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $2,090,055 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Shemastella Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (61%), Religion (29%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are Shemastella Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Daesalim USA ($700k), Kkottongnae Inc ($430k), Korean Martyrs Catholic Center ($157k).
- Does Shemastella Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 72% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shemastella Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shemastella Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kang Dream Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Shemastella Foundation based?
- Shemastella Foundation is based in CA.
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