New York · Nonprofit
KOREAN LANGUAGE FOUNDATION INC
KOREAN LANGUAGE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being NY NANUM FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $127k
What Korean Language Foundation Inc does
Mission
Promoting the adoption of korean language as an official foreign language in the public schools and educational advancement of korean culture and language for the students in nation wide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Korean teacher license program: to support students to get the korean language teacher license from the college course as requested by the state regulations.
Research and study korean grammar and develop and new teaching technique for the korean language tachers.
$11,884 spent13% of program spendingKorea visit program: offers opportunities to visit korea for principals in public middle and high school where the schools are currently having korean language classes or planning to have one in the school to gain an understanding and an experience about ancient and kodern korean historym culture, social, economic development of the korean society, and korean education system.
$69,305 spent73% of program spendingK-teacher promotion: to share teaching skills and knowledge among teachers. Special project-korean class: to support after-school korean language classes. Attending korean prade: to promote the organization's activities to the public.
$13,356 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $94,545.
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 2017 to 2018, from $50k to $134k (+169%).
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: 2018 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of KOREAN LANGUAGE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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
Yung Duk Kim
Chairman of
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of KOREAN LANGUAGE FOUNDATION INC’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 LANGUAGE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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
83% 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 LANGUAGE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% — 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
KOREAN LANGUAGE FOUNDATION INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
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.
Against its field
KOREAN LANGUAGE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KOREAN LANGUAGE FOUNDATION 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KOREAN LANGUAGE FOUNDATION INC?
- KOREAN LANGUAGE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being NY NANUM FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KOREAN LANGUAGE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,000 in grants to KOREAN LANGUAGE FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of KOREAN LANGUAGE FOUNDATION INC?
- NY NANUM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KOREAN LANGUAGE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 3 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