Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON KOREAN ADOPTEES INC
BOSTON KOREAN ADOPTEES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,892 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($8,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $17k
What Boston Korean Adoptees Inc does
Mission
To provide education regarding Korean and international adoption issues and Korean culture to adoptees and the general public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Held Korean cooking classes for adoptees (10) in-person and virtually. Connected Korean cusine with Korean culture and society.
$2,883 spent19% of program spendingAttended Woo Sox Korean Heritage Night to enjoy a baseball game and celebrate our own Korean heritage.
$2,026 spent13% of program spendingHosted 2 kimchi-making classes in 2 locations for 24 total participants.
$2,000 spent13% of program spendingHosted Lunar New Year luncheon enabling members to interact and bond.
$1,977 spent13% of program spendingHeld 2 research webinars that showcased academic research on complex trauma in the context of adoption and the experiences of Korean adoptees searching for birth families . Estimated participants: 78.
$1,750 spent11% of program spendingAttended Red Sox AAPI Night to enjoy a baseball game and celebrate our Korean heritage.
$1,330 spent9% of program spendingProvided mentorship and support for young adoptees (8) in partnership with BBBS program at Tufts University. Helped build a sense of Korean identity with young adoptees through various programming events throughout the year.
$1,083 spent7% of program spendingHosted a Dim-sum luncheon with China's Children International (CCI) affording the opportunity for our community and CCI's to meet and mix.
$847 spent6% of program spendingHeld 5 Discussion Groups facilitaed by a board member, allowing participants to share common ideas and concerns surrounding their shared Korean-adopted identity and heritage.
$562 spent4% of program spendingHosted summer family BBQ for BKA members and families (40 members plus families)
$499 spent3% of program spendingHeld a Board Retreat, an all-day session with group time and break-out sessions specific to individual roles.
$200 spent1% of program spendingHosted Chuseok luncheon celebration (40 participants) providing a space for adoptees and their families to meet, socialize, and bond.
$152 spent1% of program spendingAttended the opening events and a private tour of the Gallery of Korean Art at the Peabody Essex Museum.
$79 spent1% of program spending
The 13 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $15,388.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $9k to $27k (+191%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
69% of BOSTON KOREAN ADOPTEES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $90.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BOSTON KOREAN ADOPTEES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BOSTON KOREAN ADOPTEES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BOSTON KOREAN ADOPTEES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
92% of BOSTON KOREAN ADOPTEES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $750 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BOSTON KOREAN ADOPTEES INC has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding BOSTON KOREAN ADOPTEES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$3k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BOSTON KOREAN ADOPTEES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOSTON KOREAN ADOPTEES INC?
- BOSTON KOREAN ADOPTEES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,892 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($8,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOSTON KOREAN ADOPTEES INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $9,892 in grants to BOSTON KOREAN ADOPTEES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON KOREAN ADOPTEES INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON KOREAN ADOPTEES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing