California · Nonprofit
KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC
KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC (California) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,899,058 to it, the largest being THE ALBERT KIM FOUNDATION ($2,323,973). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $8.9M
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What Korean American Family Services Inc does
Mission
To support and strengthen korean american families and individuals in the greater los angeles area through counseling, education, and other social services. Since its inception in 1983, kfam has provided assistance to tens of thousands of korean americans particularly women, children, immigrants, and low-income families. Kfam specializes in providing linguistically and culturally appropriate services through its bilingual and bicultural staff.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child and adult wellness - program provides individuals with tools, support and resources to meet their diverse needs and enhance their quality of life. Child care food program (ccfp) is a federal and state funded program that plays a vital role in helping many low-income children to receive healthy and nutritious meals. Kfam trained 150 childcare providers and served nutritious meals to nearly 2,500 children. Substance abuse prevention (sapc) programs aims to reduce the use of alcohol and marijuana, served 1,193 youth with training sessions.
$3,388,496 spent$86,401 earned by the program45% of program spendingGender based violence program - (gbv) provides bilingual/bicultural intervention and prevention services to dv-impacted individuals and families, including 24-hour crisis hotline, case management and empowerment services for victims, survivors support group, batterers intervention program, child supervised visitation, child abuse prevention/intervention, prevention education, trainings, and referral partnerships with churches and community groups. During the fiscal year, collaborated with 32 faith leaders to strengthen the community's response to domestics violence and served 1960 clients through its community program.
$1,313,231 spent17% of program spendingAsian adoption and foster family initiative - as the nation's first and only asian pacific islander-focused foster family agency, kafs provides recruitment, training and support for api foster parents to provide culturally nurturing and safe temporary homes to foster children. Services are provided in english, korean, chinese, tagalog and vietnamese. Program services include prevention and intervention programs, adoption, parenting workshops, supervised visitations with birth parents and other family support services. During the fiscal year, 15 children were placed in affi foster families and served 4,000 clients through its community program.
$1,302,892 spent17% of program spendingMental health - kfam provides free and low-cost mental health therapy services in english and korean including individual and family therapy psychiatric evaluations, medication support, groups counseling, psycho-education, parenting skills, and mental wellness workshops. During the fiscal year, 3,962 clients were served through its counseling services.
$1,563,607 spent21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,568,226.
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.
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 $5.3M to $7.8M (+47%).
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: 2017 76% · 2018 75% · 2019 79% · 2020 78% · 2021 79% · 2022 80% · 2023 75% · 2024 68% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Katherine Yeom
Executive director
Board chair
Charles Yoo
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 18 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $867k.
12 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 FAMILY SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 funders by total. 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 FAMILY SERVICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 FAMILY SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 65% · 2019 36% · 2020 33% · 2021 17% · 2022 22% · 2023 27% — 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
45% of KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
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
99% of KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: 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 KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC?
- KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC (California) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,899,058 to it, the largest being THE ALBERT KIM FOUNDATION ($2,323,973). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $8,899,058 in grants to KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC?
- THE ALBERT KIM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,323,973 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC 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 50 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