California · Nonprofit
GYOPO
GYOPO (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $975,500 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($600,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $522k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $976k
- Net assets
- $832k
What Gyopo does
Mission
GYOPO galvanizes diasporic Korean cultural producers and the community to generate progressive critical, intersectional, and intergenerational discourses and community alliances through free public programs in Los Angeles and beyond. A 501c(3) non-profit organization, GYOPO is a cross-cultural, multi-issue platform for the Korean diaspora intersecting with other marginalized identities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
GYOPO organizes free educational programs, workshops, events, symposia, and presentations of art centering diasporic Korean cultural producers. In 2024, GYOPO produced a total of thirty-three programs, artist/ curator talks, discursive programs, screenings and performances, art exhibition walkthroughs, workshops, gatherings for our community of volunteers, and fundraisers. Highlights include Between Worlds: Art and Shamanism in the Korean Diaspora with shaman and author Seo Choi and artists Meesha Goldberg and Na Mira; An Encounter with the Korean Avant-Garde, co-presented with the Hammer Museum; Sung Neung Kyung Performance at GYOPO, followed by conversation between the artist and MMCA Senior Curator Soojung Kang; The Pepper: Migration and Metaphor, co-presented with Ssi Ya Gi and Second Generation Seeds; Destigmatizing Psychedelics with Preeti Simran Sethi, Pat Song, Harpinder Kaur Mann, and Candex Louie; Cold War Baby: Historical Context Meets Aesthetics, with Simon Leung, Sunny Xiang, and Steven Lee, moderated by Amy Kahn; and An Afternoon with Youngmi Mayer and Her Memoir, "I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying," with journalist SuChin Pak.
$192,083 spent$32,350 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $192,083.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $300k to $815k (+172%).
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: 2023 5% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of GYOPO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $452k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 GYOPO’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
GYOPO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 52% · 2023 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
GYOPO draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
GYOPO holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GYOPO
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
45% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GYOPO: 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 GYOPO?
- GYOPO (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $975,500 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($600,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GYOPO have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $975,500 in grants to GYOPO, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GYOPO?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GYOPO 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 11 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