Illinois · Nonprofit
KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO
KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $185,000 to it, the largest being BISCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($185,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rightslocalportfolio match
- Miriam U and H Earl Hoover Foundationshared funders
- Korean-American Community Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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: 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO’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.
Where its funders are
100% of KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rightslocalportfolio matchIL · funds 98 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Miriam U and H Earl Hoover Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 4 organizations that share your funders
- Korean-American Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nae Il Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Developmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Youngbum Song Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Asian American Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jamison Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Korean American Community Foundation of San Franciscoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jccc Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
37% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO?
- KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $185,000 to it, the largest being BISCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($185,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $185,000 in grants to KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO?
- BISCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing