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KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,738,958 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($5,440,250). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California does
Mission
To strengthen the power of immigrant workers, tenants, and their families to shape their lives, workplaces, homes, communities, cities, and world. Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California (kiwa) seeks to develop a membership base that supports the kiwa's mission and to develop the leadership of workers, particularly immigrant workers in low-wage industries, to improve their workplaces and communities, in los angeles and beyond. Kiwa is committed to bringing our region, country, and world closer to social and economic justice and environmental sustainability. To fulfill its mission, the organization engages in strategies including organizing, leadership development, policy advocacy, the development of safe, clean, affordable housing, education, and services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through a range of campaigns, projects, and services, KIWA organizes immigrant workers, renters, and their families to promote workplace and housing justice, immigrants' rights, democratic and sustainable community development, civic participation, and racial and gender justice. Programs and activities include worker organizing and leadership development; strategic enforcement of workplace rights; worker and renter clinics; outreach and education; policy and advocacy campaigns for social and economic justice; English and other classes and workshops; civic engagement; and affordable housing.
$2,766,171 spentof which $290,000 as grants50% of program spendingCLEAN Carwash Workers Organizing Committee (CWOC) brings workers together from carwashes across the region. Through CWOC meetings, workers build solidarity across the industry, learn and educate others about their economic and political rights, get connected with organizing or legal support, and develop their leadership skills. CWOC allows the Campaign to go from organizing carwash by carwash to movement building and connecting car washers to the larger struggle for social justice.
$1,278,244 spent23% of program spendingKIWA is co-anchor of the California Coalition for Worker Power (CCWP), a coalition of worker centers, worker advocates, labor policy experts, and labor unions dedicated to ensuring that every worker in California has the power to come together and improve their work conditions and their communities. We believe that all work is valuable and that all working people must have a voice in order for California to succeed in creating a more just and equitable society.
$1,462,709 spentof which $364,500 as grants27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,507,124.
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 $5.0M to $7.1M (+41%).
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 16% · 2018 8% · 2019 23% · 2020 19% · 2021 3% · 2022 5% · 2023 31% · 2024 22% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Debbie Sheen
Chair (board president)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $4.5M.
12 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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 IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
73% 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 IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 49% · 2019 45% · 2020 30% · 2021 53% · 2022 20% · 2023 46% — growing more concentrated.
“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
48% of KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
82% of KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?
- KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,738,958 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($5,440,250). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $25,738,958 in grants to KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,440,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 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 51 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