· Private foundation
Shemastella Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $141k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $423k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAESALIM USA | $700,000 |
| SISTERS OF MARY BOYSTOWN | $500,000 |
| KKOTDONGNAE INC | $300,000 |
| KOREAN AMERICAN SPECIAL EDUCATION | $223,346 |
| KOREA HOPE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| DOSAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF AMERIC | $40,000 |
| ST THOMAS KOREAN CATHOLIC CENTER | $26,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SPIRIT FILLED HEART MINISTRY | $15,000 |
| CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF AFRICAN CA | $12,600 |
| SOLPH | $12,500 |
| ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CATHOLIC CH | $10,000 |
| KOREAN MARTYRS CATHOLIC CENTER | $7,000 |
| MADISON HOUSE YOUTH CENTER | $4,000 |
| SPECTRUM OF HOPE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
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, $443k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
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 35% of Shemastella Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 27%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WVWORLD VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN3× · 2020–2022 · $1.2M
- KHKOREA HOPE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M
- KIKkottongnae Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $430k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- SOSISTERS OF MARY WORLD VILLAGES FORone grant, 2024 · $500k
- TSTHE SISTERS OF THE SOCIETY OF OURone grant, 2024 · $50k
- AMASOCIACION MIRINEone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -33%
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.
To support catholic fathers and missionaries all over the world
To spread the gospel to the underserved countries
To bring the gospel of jesus christ to those who have never heard it and take care of orphans
To spread the gospel of jesus christ and to look after orphans, students, handicapped, refugees and others in distress throughout the world. to sustain various buildings in korea for ongoing community services.
We are a Christian organization. The mission of this ministry is to preach the Gospel to all nations through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, declare God's glory among the nations and His marvelous deeds.
To evangelize and to do related activities for jesus.
To build individual houses for needy families in Mexico and direct them to Mexican pastors to further the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Preparing printing informational material, updating website, inviting guest speakers, traveling to various cities for organizing prayer movement for North Korean human rights
Missions
Uplifting the Lives of The Christian Minorities
Christian missionary organization supporting North Korean orphans and defectors
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 53 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 Daesalim USA ↗
- Who funds Kkottongnae Inc ↗
- Who funds ASOCIACION MIRINE ↗
- Who funds HOME ON THE GREEN PASTURES ↗
- Who funds KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT FILLED HEARTS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Charity Foundation for African Catholic Mission ↗
- Who funds The Spectrum of Hope Foundation ↗
- Who funds KOREA TOWN SENIOR AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD HANDS FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shemastella Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shemastella Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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