· Private foundation
Ys Kim 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $179k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $178,857 |
| BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $46,180 |
| COUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS | $25,000 |
| SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| KOREAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (KACF) | $5,000 |
| M FRANCES INC | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC5× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue -19%
- RCRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC3× · 2020–2022 · $179k · revenue +32%
- SRSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- BSBINGHAMTON STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (SUNY) FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $402k
- MSMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- KCKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INCone grant, 2024 · $30k
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.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
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…
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The international center of photography is a museum and school dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of photography. icp creates programs of the highest quality to advance knowledge of the medium. these include exhibitions,…
To expand cultural exchange through exhibitions, performances, fashion shows,culinary events, distribution of publications, and other artistic endeavors between korea and the united states
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds WOORI SHOW INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds M FRANCES INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ys Kim Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ys Kim Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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