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KOREAN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER

KOREAN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $140,000 to it, the largest being JAMISON FOUNDATION ($140,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$238k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$140k
Net assets
$1.4M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 86%
01What it does

What Korean American Educational Research Center does

Program

  1. Scholarship and published books provided to needed students.

    $56,212 spentof which $30,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $56,212.

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 ($39k) Expenses 100 ($20k) Net assets 100 ($653k)2018 Revenue 60 ($23k) Expenses 136 ($26k) Net assets 99 ($650k)2019 Revenue 632 ($245k) Expenses 241 ($47k) Net assets 130 ($848k)2020 Revenue 249 ($97k) Expenses 235 ($46k) Net assets 138 ($899k)2021 Revenue 191 ($74k) Expenses 315 ($61k) Net assets 140 ($912k)2022 Revenue 64 ($25k) Expenses 165 ($32k) Net assets 139 ($905k)2023 Revenue 102 ($40k) Expenses 209 ($41k) Net assets 138 ($904k)2024 Revenue 976 ($379k) Expenses 188 ($37k) Net assets 191 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 613 ($238k) Expenses 296 ($58k) Net assets 218 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (613)Expenses (296)Net assets (218)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 $904k to $1.2M (+38%).

$653k
$650k
$848k
$899k
$912k
$905k
$904k
$1.2M
$1.4M
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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
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of KOREAN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
’17
−$3k
’18
$198k
’19
$51k
’20
$13k
’21
−$7k
’22
−$1k
’23
$342k
’24
$180k
’25
297
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.

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Listed333333333
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $20k.

Funder
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'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of KOREAN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 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.

Where its funders are

100% of KOREAN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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

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’23
California out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KOREAN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin76% · top quartile
Months of reserve296.7mo · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

64%

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 EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER?
KOREAN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $140,000 to it, the largest being JAMISON FOUNDATION ($140,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KOREAN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $140,000 in grants to KOREAN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KOREAN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER?
JAMISON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KOREAN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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