California · Private foundation
Sung Tae Kim Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $11k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,179
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Sung Tae Kim Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 3 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $109k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $197k | 78% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $323k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $288k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $502k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $366k | 17% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $220k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compassion International Incorporated | $603,879 | 7 | 0% |
| Come Mission Inc | $138,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Ventura Korean Catholic Church | $48,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Joyful Christian Community Church | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Los Angeles Mission Inc | $9,800 | 3 | n/a |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $6,268 | 2 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
About Sung Tae Kim Foundation
- How much does Sung Tae Kim Foundation give?
- Sung Tae Kim Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $11,179 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Sung Tae Kim Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (69%), International (30%), Housing & Shelter (0%).
- Who are Sung Tae Kim Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Compassion International Incorporated ($604k), Come Mission Inc ($139k), Ventura Korean Catholic Church ($48k).
- Does Sung Tae Kim Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sung Tae Kim Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Where is Sung Tae Kim Foundation based?
- Sung Tae Kim Foundation is based in CA.
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