· Private foundation
The Ko Family Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
74% of The Ko Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Ko Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $61k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k11 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GSU FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| JOHNSON FERRY BAPTIST CHURCH | $9,800 |
| NATIONAL ASSOC OF CHINESE AMERICANS | $7,225 |
| ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA | $3,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $3,000 |
| FIRST ATLANTA CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE (IRC) IN ATLANTA | $2,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $2,500 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEACH HOSPITAL | $600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +13%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $16k · revenue +36%
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHINESE-AMERICAN2× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue +6%
Funded once
Northwestern Universitygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +34%- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGOone grant, 2019 · $800 · revenue +23%
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTAone grant, 2019 · $300
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…
Our mission is to enhance the ability of our members to provide world class care to patients with digestive disorders and advance the profession through excellence and innovation based upon the pillars of patient care, education,…
The purpose of american gastroenterological association, inc. is to promote the common business interests of its members by promoting the image of the industry as a whole; to serve as a central, unified voice for the specialty of…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
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,…
Achieving international impact through world-class research and education in fundamental computer science and information technology.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 17 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 MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHINESE-AMERICAN ↗
- Who funds FIRST ATLANTA CHINESE CHRISTIN CHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ko Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ko Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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