California · Private foundation
WW & JJ Choi Foundation Inc
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.
- $537k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $204,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations WW & JJ Choi Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $532k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $1.0M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $688k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $328k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $507k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $339k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $294k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $588k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immanuel Cambodia | $1,439,696 | 6 | 100% |
| New Life Mission Church | $463,700 | 9 | n/a |
| E3em Foundation | $300,000 | 6 | 99% |
| My Hometown Heroes | $244,000 | 9 | 29% |
| Messengers of Mercy | $180,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Nuguna Mission International | $149,000 | 7 | 60% |
| Pioneers | $60,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Cityteam Ministries | $42,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Kpam Foundation | $16,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
WW & JJ Choi Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About WW & JJ Choi Foundation Inc
- How much does WW & JJ Choi Foundation Inc give?
- WW & JJ Choi Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $537,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does WW & JJ Choi Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Religion (30%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are WW & JJ Choi Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Immanuel Cambodia ($1.4M), New Life Mission Church ($464k), E3em Foundation ($300k).
- Does WW & JJ Choi Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does WW & JJ Choi Foundation Inc 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 WW & JJ Choi Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is WW & JJ Choi Foundation Inc based?
- WW & JJ Choi Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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