California · Private foundation
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.
- $400k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Youngbum Song Foundation 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; $50k 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 | $400k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $360k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $380k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $200k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $200k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $275k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $205k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $165k | 63% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Korean American Coalition | $205,000 | 9 | 10% |
| Korean American Foundation | $160,000 | 3 | 67% |
| Korean Resource Center Inc | $140,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Korean American Womens Association | $130,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Korean American Family Services Inc | $115,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Youstar Foundation | $70,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Korean American Federation of La | $50,000 | 2 | 3% |
| University of California Irvine Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Uc Riverside Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Korean Institute of Southern Ca | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Korean American Coalition | $205,000 | 9 | 10% |
| Korean American Foundation | $160,000 | 3 | 67% |
| Korean Resource Center Inc | $140,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Korean American Womens Association | $130,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Korean American Family Services Inc | $115,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Youstar Foundation | $70,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Korean American Federation of La | $50,000 | 2 | 3% |
| University of California Irvine Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Uc Riverside Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Korean Institute of Southern Ca | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Home on the Green Pastures | $20,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Crestview Preparatory School | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Karis Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| La Central Lions Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| La Canada Elementary Parent-Teacher Association Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Child Educational Center | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Youngbum Song Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 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.
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How this is measured
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About Youngbum Song Foundation
- How much does Youngbum Song Foundation give?
- Youngbum Song Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $400,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Youngbum Song Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Education (20%), Arts & Culture (20%).
- Who are Youngbum Song Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Korean American Coalition ($205k), Korean American Foundation ($160k), Korean Resource Center Inc ($140k).
- Does Youngbum Song Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Youngbum Song Foundation 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 Youngbum Song Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Open Stewardship Foundation, Kang Dream Foundation, California Community Foundation.
- Where is Youngbum Song Foundation based?
- Youngbum Song Foundation is based in CA.
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