· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $54k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $415k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Graceland Bible Church | $204,000 |
| Messengers of Mercy | $60,000 |
| New Life Mission Church | $51,100 |
| My Hometown Heroes Inc | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Nuguna Mission International | $36,000 |
| Pioneer | $18,000 |
| Eden Church | $8,300 |
| Build Up Foundation | $5,000 |
| Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outrea | $5,000 |
| Ablecloset | $5,000 |
| City Team Ministires | $5,000 |
| Samaritan House | $5,000 |
| Milal Mission In Northern CA | $5,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $267k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of WW & JJ Choi Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ICImmanuel Cambodia6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +990% · 100% of their budget
- EFE3EM FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $300k · revenue +12% · 99% of their budget
- MHMY HOMETOWN HEROES9× · 2017–2025 · $244k · revenue +52% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- NLNew Life Mission Associationone grant, 2018 · $400k
- KEKorean Emmanuel Presbyterian Churchone grant, 2023 · $6k
- KKACSone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
The mission of the church is to go into the world and make disciples by declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Spirit and gathering these disciples into churches, that they might worship the Lord and obey his commands now…
To spread the gospel to the underserved countries
The mission of KCCEB is to empower the Korean American and other communities of the Bay Area through education, advocacy, service and the development of community-based resources.
Asian Children's Mission, ACM, exists to care, protect, and educate, vulnerable children in Myanmar (Burma).
Religious
To fullfil our mission we embrace the following purpose to bring believers to spritual maturity through Fellowship with other Christian, Learing and living Christs teachings, Outreach to all people, Worshipping Him alone and doing and…
The mission of the korean american community center of san francisco and bay area (kaccsf) is to build community and enhance the quality of life for the korean american residents in the san francisco and bay area. we are a place-based…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 51 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Immanuel Cambodia ↗
- Who funds E3EM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MY HOMETOWN HEROES ↗
- Who funds MESSENGERS OF MERCY ↗
- Who funds NUGUNA MISSION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds KPAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds Looking Glass Korean School ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Korean School ↗
- Who funds MELP - ABLECLOSET ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds KOREA CHRISTIAN GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED KOREAN ASSOCIATION OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds South of Market Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE VOICE ETHNIC MISSIONS ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization WW & JJ Choi Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from WW & JJ Choi Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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