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The Toni Ko 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LACMA | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $84,782 |
| THE BHUTAN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LIBERTY IN NORTH KOREA | $11,000 |
| RECONSIDER INC | $10,000 |
| THE BOSTON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ASPEN INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| EAST WEST PLAYERS | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MAMUSEUM ASSOCIATES2× · 2021–2023 · $200k · revenue +89%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF4× · 2017–2020 · $185k · revenue +76%- TBThe Bhutan Foundation2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- NCNEW COVENANT ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +21%
- HCHENRY CROWN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMone grant, 2024 · $25k
- LALOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…
The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…
The asia foundation (taf) is an international nonprofit organization working to solve the toughest social and economic challenges in asia and the pacific. (continued on schedule o)
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
Its goal is to increase global awareness and move the U.S. public to action while building international and domestic partnerships around the world
Mingei International Museum connects audiences with the creativity and cultural traditions of makers across time and the globe, fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of our shared humanity through handmade objects, and the…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Give2asia provides philanthropic services to individuals, foundations, corporations and charitable organizations in the united states and asia. give2asia matches donor interests and grantee mission and capacity to make international…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Zion Mountain Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds The Bhutan Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LINK GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW COVENANT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOONSHOTPLATFORMINC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BE RARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUST LIKE MY CHILD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZION MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds ESALEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Big Sunday ↗
- Who funds Children in Harmony ↗
- Who funds PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST-WEST PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds MPAK INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Toni Ko Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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