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Korean American Center

Korean American Center (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,975 to it, the largest being KOREAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$506k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$93k
Net assets
$126k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Korean American Center does

Mission

Dedicated to building connections between intergenerational korean-americans and the greater community by promoting opportunities for appreciation of korea's rich cultural heritage. We aim to integrate others of various backgrounds that have a common interest in korea and its culture.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Promote korean language learning opportunities in the greater orange county/southern california area by providing a high quality korean language program for adults.

    $298,088 spent$238,054 earned by the program
    53% of program spending
  2. Create opportunities for cultural awareness by hosting a weekly korean/english language and cultural exchange.

    $264,342 spent$268,444 earned by the program
    47% of program spending
  3. Citizenship n400 application assistance and legal review.

    $1,592 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $564,022.

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 ($88k) Expenses 100 ($101k) Net assets 100 ($3k)2018 Revenue 190 ($167k) Expenses 165 ($168k) Net assets 69 ($2k)2019 Revenue 226 ($199k) Expenses 196 ($199k) Net assets 78 ($2k)2020 Revenue 22 ($19k) Expenses 19 ($19k) Net assets 68 ($2k)2021 Revenue 91 ($80k) Expenses 79 ($80k) Net assets 52 ($1k)2022 Revenue 227 ($200k) Expenses 198 ($201k) Net assets 3 ($78)2023 Revenue 731 ($644k) Expenses 545 ($553k) Net assets 3554 ($92k)2024 Revenue 575 ($506k) Expenses 556 ($564k) Net assets 4893 ($126k)
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Revenue (575)Expenses (556)Net assets (4893)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 $92k to $234k (+155%).

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$2k
$2k
$2k
$1k
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$92k
$234k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 57% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

48% of Korean American Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13k
’17
−$800
’18
$221
’19
−$250
’20
−$420
’21
−$1k
’22
$91k
’23
−$58k
’24
4.5
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

Tammy Kim

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

20232024
Listed73
Joined·+3
No longer listed·7
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $5k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1
2
2
2
2
1
2

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 Korean American Center’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

Korean American Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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

54% 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 Korean American Center.

54%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% — 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

54% of Korean American Center'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 $43k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from California funders.

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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. $50k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Korean American Center has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Korean American Center

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
0%
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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Korean American Center?
Korean American Center (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,975 to it, the largest being KOREAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Korean American Center have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $92,975 in grants to Korean American Center, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Korean American Center?
KOREAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Korean American Center 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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