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The James & Agnes Kim Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.5MHealth$2.3MPhilanthropy$2.0MScience & Tech$1.6MArts & Culture$840kYouth Development$425kFood & Nutrition$365kHousing & Shelter$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $650k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE$1,500,000
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA$275,000
BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$150,000
PROJECT HOME PHILADELPHIA$150,000
TWELVE PLUS (12)$150,000
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY$50,000
PHILABUNDANCE$50,000
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$50,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$50,000
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART$25,000
JAISOHN HOME HEALTH CARE SERVICES$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENN - WHARTON SCHOOL$25,000
NATURAL LANDS TRUST$25,000
HAMILTON COLLEGE$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENN - ALUMNI FUND$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $500k → 6%THE HILL SCHOOL: $50k → 7%BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $275k → 10%MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD-PRECIOUS BLOOD CONVENT: $66k → 11%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 22%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $100k → 16%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $480k → 10%BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $150k → 10%MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD-PRECIOUS BLOOD CONVENT: $50k → 11%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 22%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $450k → 10%BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 22%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $450k → 10%BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 22%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE - KIM FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $400k → 10%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE - KIM FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $400k → 10%NATURAL LANDS TRUST: $50k → 10%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $80k → 10%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $50k → 10%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $50k → 10%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE - ANNUAL GIFT: $50k → 10%TWELVE PLUS (12): $150k → 7%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $50k → 10%TWELVE PLUS (12): $100k → 7%JAISOHN HOME HEALTH CARE SERVICES: $300k → 22%TWELVE PLUS (12): $50k → 7%JAISOHN HOME HEALTH CARE SERVICES: $300k → 22%PHILIP JAISOHN HOME HEALTH CARE: $300k → 22%JAISOHN HOME HEALTH CARE SERVICES: $200k → 22%PROJECT HOME PHILADELPHIA: $150k → 22%THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $1.5M → 22%CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $1.0M → 22%CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $1.0M → 22%PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA: $275k → 22%PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA: $270k → 22%PHILABUNDANCE: $120k → 22%PHILABUNDANCE: $100k → 22%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 28 repeat orgs$260k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
4

Total granted

$10M
$110k

Still filing today

57%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • TF
    THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +31%
  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    6× · 2017–2023 · $835k · revenue +5%
  • PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $610k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • DC
    DARTMOUTH COLLEGE - ANNUAL GIFT
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PENN
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
11
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University; the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia Museum of Art. 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

18 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. 18 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $1,610,000 · OtherDARTMOUTH COLLEGEJAISOHN HOME HEALTH CARE SERVICES: $850,000 · OtherJAISOHN HOME HEALTH CARE SERVICESDARTMOUTH COLLEGE - KIM FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $800,000 · OtherDARTMOUTH COLLEGE - KIM FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP …TWELVE PLUS (12): $425,000 · OtherTWELVE PLUS (12)PHILIP JAISOHN HOME HEALTH CARE: $335,000 · OtherPHILIP JAISOHN HOME HEALTH CARE+12 more: $704,000 · Other+12 moreTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $1,560,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUT…PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $610,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTR…PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $205,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM O…+1 more: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA: $2,000,000 · ReligionTHE CATHOLIC FOUND…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $835,000 · EducationTemple Universit…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVE…Fordham University: $200,000 · EducationFordham Universi…THE HILL SCHOOL: $175,000 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOLTrustees of Hamilton College: $160,000 · EducationTrustees of Hami…+3 more: $145,000 · Education+3 moreTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $550,000 · HealthTHE BRYN …COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $510,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY…+1 more: $20,000 · HealthPhilabundance: $365,000 · Food & NutritionNatural Lands Trust Inc: $90,000 · Environment
Other$4,724,000Arts & Culture$2,400,000Religion$2,000,000Education$1,765,000Health$1,080,000Food & Nutrition$365,000Environment$90,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA: $2,000,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $1,560,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $835,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $610,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $550,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $510,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetPhilabundance: $365,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $205,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFordham University: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL: $175,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $160,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc: $90,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMICHAEL'S WAY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% 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 THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA ↗
  • Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
  • Who funds Natural Lands Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds 'IOLANI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE GESU SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MICHAEL'S WAY ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN11.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The James & Agnes Kim Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James & Agnes Kim Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to The James & Agnes Kim Foundation Inc 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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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