California · Nonprofit
FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE
FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,184,622 to it, the largest being ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN HEALTH FORUM ($267,250). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $403k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $251k
What Fred T Korematsu Institute does
Mission
To promote civic participation and education that advances racial equity, social justice, and human rights for all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Fred T. Korematsu Institute develops programs and works with schools to promote civic engagement relating to civil liberties, rights and antibullying education. The Institute develops educational kits to facilitate the above, which include suggested activities, lesson plans, biographies and historical material for use in schools and other venues. The Korematsu Institute supports policy and legislation initiatives to establish Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution in perpetuity across the nation by educating state legislatures and government officials. The Korematsu Institute educates the general public through the use of legacy voices at community and school events.
$254,431 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $254,431.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $31k to $381k (+1112%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 20% · 2020 40% · 2021 61% · 2023 10% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Karen Korematsu
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $59k → $326k.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $225k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE’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
FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 67% · 2019 43% · 2020 38% · 2021 36% · 2022 55% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
25% of FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
85% of FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $275k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE is better cushioned than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $576k on record.
- Department of the Interior$576k
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 FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE?
- FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,184,622 to it, the largest being ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN HEALTH FORUM ($267,250). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,184,622 in grants to FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE?
- ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN HEALTH FORUM is the largest funder on record, with $267,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 25 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