· Private foundation
The Kim Yong Hwan 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORANGE KOREAN CHURCH | $70,000 |
| KOREAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF LA | $20,000 |
| WON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CORNER STONE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SARANG CHURCH | $10,000 |
| EXCHANGE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CERRITOS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSHALOM CHURCH7× · 2017–2023 · $411k
- KAKOREAN AMERICAN COALITION6× · 2017–2022 · $155k · revenue +147%
- OKORANGE KOREAN CHURCH3× · 2019–2025 · $130k
Funded once
- TOTHE ORIENTAL MISSION CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $47k
- KKACCone grant, 2023 · $20k
- GGGARDEN GROVE POLICE STATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
None
To spread the gospel to the underserved countries
To fullfil our mission we embrace the following purpose to bring believers to spritual maturity through Fellowship with other Christian, Learing and living Christs teachings, Outreach to all people, Worshipping Him alone and doing and…
The church was established to have christian worship, fellowship, bible education, missionary and services.
Korean community services
Established website to provide sermons, seminars, and special events for christian communities
Church
The mission of the church is to go into the world and make disciples by declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Spirit and gathering these disciples into churches, that they might worship the Lord and obey his commands now…
To operate a church to worship god, to preach the gospel of jesus
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 44 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 KOREAN AMERICAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds HANMI FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ORIENTAL MISSION CHURCH ↗
- Who funds HANA CHURCH ↗
- Who funds YONG SAN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN GOSPEL BROADCASTING CO INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KCBMCUSA ↗
- Who funds Always Dream Inc ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CULTURAL EDUCATION 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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kim Yong Hwan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kim Yong Hwan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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