Korean-American Community Foundation Inc
New York, NY · EIN 16-1643114. Reported 146 grants totalling $11.3M to 65 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Korean-American Community Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 65 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 68% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $75,000. Half of what it reported fell between $40,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $300,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Resource Exchange | New York, NY | $821,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Korean-American Family Service Center Inc | Flushing, NY | $528,594 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Asian American Federation Inc | New York, NY | $526,094 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York Inc | Bayside, NY | $448,594 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Renaissance Economic Development Corporation | New York, NY | $430,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Inclusion & Development Alliance Inc | Flushing, NY | $410,094 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chinese American Planning Council Inc | New York, NY | $407,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Advocacy Institute Inc | New York, NY | $400,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Asian Womens Christian Association Inc | Teaneck, NJ | $366,862 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Minkwon Center for Community Action Inc | Flushing, NY | $359,000 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative Inc | Haskensack, NJ | $353,594 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Asian Americans for Equality Inc | New York, NY | $310,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Young Womens Christian Association of Queens | Flushing, NY | $285,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Family Counseling Center of Greater Washington | Vienna, VA | $251,094 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Family Touch Inc | Little Ferry, NJ | $250,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Asian American Coalition for Children and Families Inc | New York, NY | $225,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New York Asian Womens Center Inc | New York, NY | $215,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Korean American Senior Citizens Association of Nj Inc | Leonia, NJ | $205,862 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Korean American Civic Empowerment for Community Inc | Flushing, NY | $201,094 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Kan-Win | Park Ridge, IL | $200,944 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Southside United Housing Development Fund Corporation | Brooklyn, NY | $187,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Chinatown Manpower Project Inc | New York, NY | $185,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Give Chances Inc | Palisades Pk, NJ | $180,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| National Asian Pacific American Womens Forum | Chicago, IL | $170,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New Beginning for Special Needs Inc | Norwood, NJ | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gma America Inc | Flushing, NY | $149,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Somang Society | Cypress, CA | $135,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Korean Community Service Center of | Annandale, VA | $126,094 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New York Immigration Coalition Inc | New York, NY | $125,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Hana Center | Chicago, IL | $116,425 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Woori Center | Lansdale, PA | $115,862 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Committee Against Anti Asian Violen Ce | New York, NY | $115,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Hamkae Center | Centreville, VA | $115,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $115,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Koreatown Youth and Community Center Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $115,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Chicago | Chicago, IL | $105,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Philip Jaisohn Memorial Foundation Inc | North Wales, PA | $100,862 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Communities Resist | Brooklyn, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Korean American Community Services Inc | San Jose, CA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Korean Resource Center Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Korean Amer Special Edu Ctr 1661 | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ltsc Community Development Corporation | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Next Harm Reduction Inc | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Penn Asian Senior Services Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Esther Ha Foundation Inc | Bayside, NY | $96,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Korea Town Senior and Community Center Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $88,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc | Chicago, IL | $77,037 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Refugees International | Washington, DC | $75,712 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nakasec Action Fund | Centreville, VA | $70,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Redeemer Presbyterian Church of New York | New York, NY | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Korean Community Center | Tenafly, NJ | $51,094 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Korean American Coalition | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Korean American Family Services Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mustard Seed Generation Inc | Dallas, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mil Al Mission in Ny Inc | Flushing, NY | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Immigrant History Initiative Incorporated | Arlington, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Koreanamericanstoryorg Inc | Scarsdale, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Right to Be Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Catalyst Coalition | Norcross, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc | New York, NY | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Korean Medical Pracitioner Assoc of Greater New York Inc | Flushing, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| New York Foundation | New York, NY | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
38 of 65 (58%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Advocacy Institute
Federal advocacy training for nonprofits - Asian American Federation
Enhance Voter Education GSNC - Fccgw 1952 Gallows
Prof. Counseling Services GSNC - Korean Amer Family Service Center
Support for Dom. Viol. Victims GSNC - YWCA of Queens
Competent Case Management Svcs - Community Resource Exchange
Support Fellows CRE Supervision
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 53 of 65 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 20 | $992,000 | $56,500 |
| 2021 | 26 | $1,778,000 | $60,500 |
| 2022 | 22 | $1,826,000 | $77,500 |
| 2023 | 35 | $2,027,000 | $40,000 |
| 2024 | 43 | $4,634,912 | $88,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
60% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $75,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Korean-American Community Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 43 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 135 East 64TH Street 2ND Floor, New York, NY, 10065.
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