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Youngbum Song 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KOREAN AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDAT | $30,000 |
| UC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| KOREAN AMERICAN COALITION | $30,000 |
| USC KOREAN STUDIES INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| UCI CENTER FOR CRITICAL KOREAN | $30,000 |
| KOREAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| UCLA CENTER FOR KOREAN STUDIES | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES IN | $20,000 |
| KOREAN RESOURCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
| KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| KOREATOWN SENIOR & COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
| KOREAN AMERICAN SPECIAL EDUCATION | $20,000 |
| KOREAN AMERICAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| YOUSTAR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $516k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- KAKOREAN AMERICAN COALITION9× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +147%
- KAKOREAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +600% · 67% of their budget
KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $115k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +128%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +46%
- KCKARIS CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Comparative studies and research concerning the political, economic, social, and cultural barriers and ties among the usa,south korea and north korea.
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…
Teaching and introducing Korean language, history, and culture to Houston community.
The korean american community foundation of san francisco uplifts and connects the korean-american community through philanthropy.
KACS' missions are improving the quality of life, increasing community involvement and opportunities for persons of Korean heritage. In pursuit of these missions, KACS acts as a bridge to the greater community, providing social,…
Dedicated to building connections between intergenerational korean-americans and the greater community by promoting opportunities for appreciation of korea's rich cultural heritage. we aim to integrate others of various backgrounds that…
To spread the gospel to the underserved countries
To enhance the mutual relationship & corporation between korean schools in america to help improve quality of korean language and culture education & expand the base thereof. to help promte pride of descendants of koreans & establish…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Korean American Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Home On the Green Pastures. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 34 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 KOREAN AMERICAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Korean Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LA ↗
- Who funds UC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOME ON THE GREEN PASTURES ↗
- Who funds KOREAN INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN CA ↗
- Who funds CRESTVIEW PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LA CANADA ELEMENTARY PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
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: Open Stewardship Foundation · Kang Dream Foundation · California Community Foundation · Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California · Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Youngbum Song 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.
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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