California · Nonprofit
KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER
KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER (California) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,527,553 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,722,328). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $8.3M
What Koreatown Youth and Community Center does
Mission
Kycc's programs and services are directed toward recently immigrated, economically disadvantaged youth and their families, and promote community socio-economic empowerment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kycc's environmental services provides a range of free services to the residents of koreatown and surrounding areas of central and south los angeles. The urban forestry program plants and maintains shade trees in public spaces. The community beautification program offers free graffiti removal, litter abatement, and bulky item pick-up seven days a week. Our clean la program cleans major cooridors while providing job training and career coaching for adults looking for a fresh start. Community engagement efforts include tree giveaways, neighborhood clean-ups, environmental education workshops, and trainings. Kycc is dedicated to beautifying and greening our neighborhoods to realize a healthier, more sustainable community for everyone.
$3,440,004 spent$527,806 earned by the program21% of program spendingKycc's community economic development improves the financial stability of low-income residents by providing free tax preparation services and linking them to various financial strengthening services. Kycc's asset and credit building program, and financial education and coaching services seek to improve financial stability of our clients. Kycc provides earned income tax credit outreach, low income taxpayer clinic supports individuals with tax controversies, rental and utility assistance. Finally, kycc offers a small business development program to provide technical assistance and workshops for small business owners in and around koreatown.
$3,674,973 spent$468,307 earned by the program22% of program spendingKycc's behavioral health clinics offer culturally competent mental health services for low-income children, youth, and their families and susbstance abuse treatment for adults. Individual, group, and family therapy is provided in outpatient, school-based, and in-home settings through contracts with the county department of mental health, county department of children and family services, county department of public health, and other funders. Services also include medication management, individual and family-based case management, child abuse prevention/intervention, and parenting education. All services are available in english, spanish, and korean.
$3,111,675 spent$143,262 earned by the program19% of program spendingKycc provides multiple services to the koreatown community including afterschool programs and a full-day summer camp at low or no cost. Kids town preschool delivers tri-lingual early childhood education for children ages two to five years. Kycc's prevention education unit provides trainings and workshops for youth, parents and the los angeles unified school district (lausd). These programs and workshops increase community protective factors, including social emotional learning and resiliency and open communication between youth and parents. Kycc provides supportive housing and tenant services to residents in our affordable housing buildings and time-limited rental assistance and housing navigation through lahsa and community supports. The koreatown storytelling program is an intergenerational, multilingual, and multiethinic oral history and digital media program for high school students, adults, and older adults. Kycc's familysource center is a hub for families with children providing a prevention framwork that focusses on improving housing stability, increasing financial secruity, and improving academic achievement.
$6,482,310 spent$595,671 earned by the program39% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,708,962.
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 2022 to 2023, from $7.4M to $10M (+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 54% · 2018 60% · 2019 60% · 2020 59% · 2021 59% · 2022 66% · 2023 68% · 2024 63% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% 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
Johng Ho Song
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $551k → $2.0M.
16 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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
KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
57% 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 KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 20% · 2019 32% · 2020 22% · 2021 19% · 2022 23% · 2023 26% — 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
36% of KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
78% of KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.4M on record.
- Department of the Treasury$4.3M
- Small Business Administration$1.0M
- National Endowment for the Arts$85k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% 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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Kycc Oak LLC · disregarded
- Kycc Solaris LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER?
- KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER (California) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,527,553 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,722,328). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $12,527,553 in grants to KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,722,328 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY 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 85 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