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HAPPY VILLAGE

HAPPY VILLAGE (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $871,582 to it, the largest being SUNRISE FOUNDATION ($453,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$757k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$872k
Net assets
$234k
11/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Happy Village does

Mission

(a)promote, foster and enhance public awareness of the issues of new korean immigrants to us, (b)assist korean immigrants assimilate into american society, (c)promote a socially responsive environment among minority groups

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Kimbo scholarship program

    $552,700 spentof which $552,700 as grants
    77% of program spending
  2. Happy Village community donation program

    $2,998 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Love share jacket & sleeping bags

    $29,103 spent
    4% of program spending
  4. Seniors who live alone program/ green project/ car donation/love marathon/ bazaar, etc

    $133,715 spentof which $61,800 as grants
    19% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $718,516.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($841k) Expenses 100 ($828k) Net assets -6 ($-5765)2018 Revenue 87 ($735k) Expenses 76 ($633k) Net assets 100 ($96k)2019 Revenue 76 ($636k) Expenses 77 ($639k) Net assets 97 ($94k)2020 Revenue 70 ($589k) Expenses 69 ($574k) Net assets 113 ($109k)2021 Revenue 83 ($698k) Expenses 81 ($671k) Net assets 141 ($136k)2022 Revenue 80 ($677k) Expenses 82 ($681k) Net assets 137 ($132k)2023 Revenue 82 ($694k) Expenses 91 ($750k) Net assets 78 ($75k)2024 Revenue 110 ($928k) Expenses 88 ($731k) Net assets 283 ($271k)2025 Revenue 90 ($757k) Expenses 96 ($794k) Net assets 244 ($234k)
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Revenue (90)Expenses (96)Net assets (244)Peer revenue range

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 $101k to $297k (+195%).

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$97k
$95k
$135k
$163k
$158k
$101k
$297k
$237k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

75% of HAPPY VILLAGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’17
$102k
’18
−$2k
’19
$15k
’20
$27k
’21
−$4k
’22
−$57k
’23
$197k
’24
−$37k
’25
3.6
months of
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

Changsik Cho

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $21k → $71k.

4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 HAPPY VILLAGE’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

HAPPY VILLAGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

52%
largest funder
74%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 60% · 2019 39% · 2020 38% · 2021 47% · 2022 40% · 2023 42% — 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

78% of HAPPY VILLAGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

98% of HAPPY VILLAGE's grant income comes from California funders.

NJ
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HAPPY VILLAGE's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−5% · below the median
Months of reserve3.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like HAPPY VILLAGE

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds HAPPY VILLAGE?
HAPPY VILLAGE (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $871,582 to it, the largest being SUNRISE FOUNDATION ($453,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HAPPY VILLAGE have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $871,582 in grants to HAPPY VILLAGE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HAPPY VILLAGE?
SUNRISE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $453,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HAPPY VILLAGE 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.

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 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing