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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.

$268k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$446kInternational$337kSocial Science$59kEducation$36kReligion$30kHuman Services$16kPhilanthropy$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $235k
$11,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LACMA$100,000
Individual grant recipient$84,782
THE BHUTAN FOUNDATION$50,000
LIBERTY IN NORTH KOREA$11,000
RECONSIDER INC$10,000
ASPEN INSTITUTE$5,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION$5,000
EAST WEST PLAYERS$2,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%GLOBAL CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%GOOD FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%GLOBAL CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%MPAK INC: $1k → 14%THE BE RARE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $11k → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$996k · 12 repeat orgs$132k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$996k
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+21%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesSocial ScienceEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MA
    MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
    2× · 2021–2023 · $200k · revenue +89%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    4× · 2017–2020 · $185k · revenue +76%
  • TB
    The Bhutan Foundation
    2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • NC
    NEW COVENANT ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +21%
  • HC
    HENRY CROWN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue 0%
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
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
3
Childfund Alliance

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…

International
4
The New Childrens Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
5
The Asia Foundation

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)

International
6
Siff

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.

Youth Development
7
Global Exchange

Its goal is to increase global awareness and move the U.S. public to action while building international and domestic partnerships around the world

International
8
Mingei International Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
10
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
11
GIVE2ASIA

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…

International
12
Internet Society Foundation

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LACMA: $200,000 · OtherLACMAIndividual grant recipient: $165,962 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Bhutan Foundation: $60,000 · OtherThe Bhutan FoundationHENRY CROWN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM: $25,000 · Other+5 more: $26,051 · Other+5 moreUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $185,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR U…LINK GLOBAL: $36,000 · InternationalLINK GLOBALMOONSHOTPLATFORMINC: $16,000 · InternationalMOONSHOTPLATFORMINCJUST LIKE MY CHILD FOUNDATION: $10,000 · International+1 more: $2,000 · InternationalMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $200,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATESCOUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS INC: $34,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERIC…+3 more: $11,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $55,000 · Social ScienceESALEN INSTITUTE: $4,000 · Social ScienceGLOBAL CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $11,000 · Human ServicesTHE BE RARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesNEW COVENANT ACADEMY: $30,330 · EducationZION MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $8,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation Inc: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBig Sunday: $2,500 · Community Improvement
Other$477,013International$249,000Arts & Culture$245,500Social Science$59,000Human Services$57,000Education$30,330Philanthropy$13,000Community Improvement$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $185,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bhutan Foundation: $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLINK GLOBAL: $36,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS INC: $34,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNEW COVENANT ACADEMY: $30,330 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGLOBAL CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMOONSHOTPLATFORMINC: $16,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUST LIKE MY CHILD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BE RARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetZION MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION SAN DIEGO: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetESALEN INSTITUTE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Sunday: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST-WEST PLAYERS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren in Harmony: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMPAK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA14.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Toni Ko Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Toni Ko Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Toni Ko Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Toni Ko Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 30 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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