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The Robin-Hwajin Yoon 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.

$535k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$222,200
Organizations funded a year
16 to 30
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$10M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$344k20%
FY202425$363k20%
FY202325$327k16%
FY202230$470k30%
FY202123$410k43%
FY202018$335k28%
FY201916$451k44%
FY201818$519k33%
83% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.9MPhilanthropy$972kHealth$381kArts & Culture$204kCivil Rights$74kHousing & Shelter$71kCrime & Legal$52kHuman Services$38kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKorean American Foundation: $687,200 over 5y, 59% of budgetHarvard-Westlake School: $590,825 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetVision to Learn: $370,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetKorean American National Museum Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetVassar College: $42,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola Marymount University: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSogang Alumni America: $40,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetCouncil of Korean Americans Inc: $38,424 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetKorean American Coalition: $21,181 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State University Northridge Foundation: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFathers Table Mission: $13,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetGyopo: $12,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGrace Korean Foundation: $11,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetSan Diego Museum of Art: $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe University of Connecticut Foundation Inc: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKorean American Leaders in Hollywood: $10,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetWoori Show Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetBruce Lee Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCovenant House California: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArmand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Robinson Gardens Inc: $7,209 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetChildhelp Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEquitable Vitrines: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKorea Arts Foundation of America: $2,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetGofundmeorg: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTreepeople Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

California Community FoundationCA13.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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About The Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim Foundation

How much does The Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim Foundation give?
The Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $534,610 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Philanthropy (22%), Health (9%).
Who are The Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Korean American Foundation ($687k), Harvard-Westlake School ($591k), Vision to Learn ($370k).
Does The Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Robin-Hwajin Yoon 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim Foundation based?
The Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim Foundation is based in CA.

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 68 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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