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The Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$222k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% 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
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $163k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $345k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KOREAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION$222,200
ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND$73,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$50,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$42,600
UCLA FOUNDATION$25,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY TANGLEWOOD$20,000
CARE$15,000
VASSAR COLLEGE$10,500
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SOGANG ALUMNI AMERICA$10,000
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY$10,000
VISION TO LEARN$10,000
HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 10%CHILD HELP: $3k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE OF CALIFORNIA: $3k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $2k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $2k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $1k → 14%FATHER'S TABLE MISSION: $5k → 14%FATHER'S TABLE MISSION: $5k → 14%FATHER'S TABLE MISSION: $3k → 14%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 34 repeat orgs$355k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
27

Total granted

$3.4M
$327k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
0%

Still filing today

41%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • KA
    KOREAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $687k · revenue +518% · 59% of their budget
  • HS
    HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $591k · revenue +21%
  • VISION TO LEARN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +250%

Funded once

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $53k
  • KA
    Korean American National Museum Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -62% · 52% of their budget
  • AH
    ALEXANDRIA HOUSE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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3
Unification of Korea Academic Resea

Comparative studies and research concerning the political, economic, social, and cultural barriers and ties among the usa,south korea and north korea.

Arts & Culture
4
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
9
The Korean Library Foundation
Education
10
Boston Architectural College

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

—
11
The George Washington University

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…

Education
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ucla Foundation; the most unlike its peers is San Diego 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

34 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. 34 of the 68 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
21/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $501,008 · OtherIndividual grant recipientASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $284,000 · OtherASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAKOREAN AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDAT: $276,747 · OtherKOREAN AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 500K-10-YR: $200,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 500K-10-YRIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherBOSTON UNIVERSITY TANGLEWOOD INSTIT: $80,000 · Other+34 more: $685,197 · Other+34 moreHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $590,825 · EducationHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOLUCLA FOUNDATION: $295,400 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $50,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationSOGANG ALUMNI AMERICA: $40,000 · Education+4 more: $39,204 · EducationKOREAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $687,200 · PhilanthropyKOREAN AMERICAN F…+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyVISION TO LEARN: $370,000 · HealthVISION TO…+1 more: $2,500 · HealthKorean American National Museum Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS INC: $38,424 · Arts & CultureGYOPO: $12,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART: $10,500 · Arts & CultureKOREAN AMERICAN LEADERS IN HOLLYWOOD: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWOORI SHOW INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBRUCE LEE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $4,500 · Arts & CultureFATHERS TABLE MISSION: $13,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $8,000 · Human ServicesCHILDHELP INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesKOREAN AMERICAN COALITION: $21,181 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,500 · Civil Rights
Other$2,106,952Education$1,055,429Philanthropy$688,200Health$372,500Arts & Culture$152,924Human Services$24,000Civil Rights$23,681

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

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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $295,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $284,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetKorean American National Museum Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $204 over 2y, 0.0% 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 KOREAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Korean American National Museum Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SOGANG ALUMNI AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS INC ↗
  • Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN COALITION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FATHERS TABLE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds GYOPO ↗
  • Who funds GRACE KOREAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ↗

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 …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–50%
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.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home