In our latest grantmaking cycle, we committed over $3 million in grants to support 45 initiatives addressing economic insecurity.

Current Grantee Partners by Region

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Southern California (AJSOCAL)
Mission: To combat discrimination, offer free legal services and workshops in Southern California, and drive policy change from local to national levels.
Focus of Grant: Research on the needs of Korean Americans experiencing economic insecurity

KFAM | Grant underwritten by KACF San Francisco
Mission: To empower underserved Korean American and Asian Pacific Islander families through culturally responsive programs.
Focus of Grant: Support for domestic violence survivors in Los Angeles

KIWA
Mission: To build the power of immigrant workers and residents and to organize a powerful grassroots leadership to transform our workplaces and communities, in Koreatown and beyond.
Focus of Grant: Immigrant rights clinic and building coalition of immigrant workers, businesses and government leaders

Korean American Coalition-Los Angeles (KACLA)
Mission: To promote the civic and civil rights interests of the Korean American community.
Focus of Grant: Civic engagement in Los Angeles

Korean American Community Services (KACS)
Mission: To improve the quality of life for all Korean-Americans in Santa Clara County with a focus on seniors and other vulnerable groups.
Focus of Grant: Social services for older adults in the Bay Area

Korean American Special Education Center (KASEC) | Grant underwritten by KACF San Francisco
Mission: To create a community where people, both with and without disabilities, live together in equality and solidarity.
Focus of Grant: Early intervention services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Korean Resource Center (KRC)
Mission: To empower low-income, immigrant, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and communities of color in Southern California.
Focus of Grant: Social services for low-income Korean American seniors

Koreatown Senior & Community Center | Grant underwritten by Seoul Medical Group
Mission: To enhance the rights and welfare of seniors in Koreatown.
Focus of Grant: Social services and meals for seniors

Koreatown Youth & Community Center (KYCC)
Mission: To serve the evolving needs of the Korean American population in the greater Los Angeles area as well as the multiethnic Koreatown community.
Focus of Grant: Bilingual and bicultural small business development program

LTSC Community Development Corporation
Mission: To provide a comprehensive array of social welfare and community development services to assist low income individuals and other persons in need, contribute to community revitalization and cultural preservation in Little Tokyo and among the broader Japanese community in the Southland, and to provide such resources to neighboring Asian Pacific Islander and other low income communities.
Focus of Grant: Needs assessment of Korean seniors living in blindspots

Somang Society | Grant underwritten by Seoul Medical Group

Mission: To foster “Well Being, Well Aging, and Well Dying” in our communities with a focus on the aging population.
Focus of Grant: Resource guide for older adults 

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Chicago
Mission: To build power through collective advocacy and organizing to achieve racial equity through grassroots leadership development, coalition-building, and civic engagement.
Focus of Grant: Advocacy for state-level language access legislation

Hana Center
Mission: To build the power of Korean, Asian American, and multiethnic immigrant communities in Chicagoland through social services, education, culture, and community organizing to advance human rights.
Focus of Grant: Community assessment to understand the needs of Korean Americans in Chicago area

KAN-WIN
Mission: To eradicate gender-based violence through comprehensive, survivor-centered services, education, and outreach to Asian American communities and beyond.
Focus of Grant: Support for domestic violence survivors in Chicago

National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC)
Mission: To organize Korean and Asian Americans to achieve social, economic, and racial justice.
Focus of Grant: National immigrant justice efforts

The Advocacy Institute
Mission: To support social justice organizations in building the advocacy skills, knowledge, and power they need to shape government policy for a more just and equitable New York.
Focus of Grant: Developing curriculum to train nonprofits to advance advocacy and unlock federal funding

Asian American Federation (AAF)
Mission: To raise the influence and enhance the well-being of the pan-Asian American community.
Focus of Grant: Civic engagement for New York City and State elections

Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE)
Mission: To advances racial, social and economic justice for Asian Americans and other systemically disadvantaged communities, through community development guided by our experiences as Asian Americans and our commitment to civil rights.
Focus of Grant: Transitional housing and housing navigation

Asian Women’s Christian Association (AWCA)
Mission: To help individuals and the community through professional counseling, social welfare services, cultural and educational programs for Asian families, men, and women.
Focus of Grant: Social services for seniors and programs for youth

Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative (BVMI)
Mission: To deliver free, high-quality healthcare to Bergen County’s working uninsured, helping them live healthy, productive lives.
Focus of Grant: Free healthcare for Koreans in Bergen County

Chinese American Planning Council (CPC)
Mission: To promote the social and economic empowerment of Chinese American, immigrant, and low-income communities.
Focus of Grant: Supporting the success of Korean American family child care providers and meet the growing need for licensed, high-quality child care services for families.

Community Inclusion & Development Alliance (CIDA)
Mission: To increase equity and inclusion opportunities for children and families with exceptional needs including disabilities, language and cultural barriers, and socioeconomic challenges.
Focus of Grant: Services for adults with disabilities and their families 

Community Resource Exchange (CRE)
Mission: CRE is a nonprofit consulting firm that provides nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies with the strategies and tools needed to build sustainable, high-performing organizations that improve people’s lives and drive social change.
Focus of Grant: KACF partners with CRE to provide our grantee partners with culturally and language-sensitive organizational management assistance through the Capacity Building Program and Fellowship.

Korean American Civic Empowerment (KACE)
Mission: To empower the Korean American community by promoting civic participation.
Focus of grant: Civic engagement and legal services.

Korean American Family Service Center
Mission: Preventing and ending domestic violence, sexual assault, and relationship abuse to create a violence-free society.
Focus of Grant: Holistic support for survivors of domestic violence

Korean American Senior Citizen’s Association of New Jersey (KASCANJ)
Mission: To serve the needs of Korean American senior citizens residing in northern New Jersey.
Focus of Grant: Social services and recreational programs for seniors

Korean Community Center (KCC)
Mission: To promote healthy and independent living for all ages and to integrate the people with Korean Heritage into the greater community through culture & education, outreach, health & social services, and civic advocacy.
Focus of Grant: Case management for homebound seniors

Korean Community Services (KCS)
Mission: To be a bridge for Korean immigrants and the wider Asian community to fully integrate into society and overcome any economic, health and linguistic barriers so that they become independent and thriving members of the community.
Focus of Grant: Healthcare navigation and education programs for Korean Americans in Bergen County, New Jersey

The Nanoom House
Mission: To provide shelter for unhoused Korean Americans in the New York metropolitan area and help them assimilate back into society as self-sufficient individuals.
Focus of Grant: Shelter and services for unhoused Korean Americans 

New Beginning for Special Needs
Mission: To provide individuals on the autism spectrum with services and tools that promote independence while creating stronger ties to our communities.
Focus of Grant: Day care center for adults with disabilities.

Red Canary Song
Mission: Red Canary Song is a grassroots organization of Asian and Migrant sex workers and massage workers, organizing transnationally. The organization’s work is in the tradition of sex worker mutual aid, and we center base-building with migrant massage workers through a labor rights, migrant justice, and PIC abolitionist framework.
Focus of Grant: Mutual aid for sex workers and massage parlor workers

Renaissance
Mission: To transform low-to-moderate income and immigrant communities in New York metropolitan area by providing low-interest small business loans, training and counseling services.
Focus of Grant: Financial and technical assistance for Korean immigrant small businesses

Womankind
Mission: To create a future where we Rise Above Violence and our communities can innovate towards collective well-being, restoration, and social justice.
Focus of Grant: Coalition-building to advance advocacy efforts for survivors of gender based violence in New York

YWCA of Queens
Mission: Eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Focus of Grant: Social services for Koreans in Flushing, New York.

Penn Asian Senior Services (PASSi)
Mission: To ensure that seniors receive the care and support they need to live independently in the community in their chosen language. 
Focus of Grant: Support for seniors in Philadelphia.

Philip Jaisohn Memorial Foundation
Mission: To promote and fulfill Dr. Phillip Jaisohn’s ideals of humanity through a broad range of medical and health care, senior employment training and social services, and educational and cultural programs for the enrichment of the community.
Focus of Grant: Support for seniors in Philadelphia.

Woori Center
Mission: To achieve social, racial, and economic justice in Pennsylvania by organizing Korean and Asian Americans.
Focus of Grant: Education and organizing to advance ‘Drivers License for All’ Program in Pennsylvania

Woori Juntos
Mission: To ensures Asians, im/migrants, and all Texans have language access to health and social services and civically engage to achieve equity and justice for all.
Focus of Grant: Social services for older adults in Houston

Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center (APALRC)
Mission: To advance the civil and legal rights of Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Focus of Grant: Legal services for domestic violence survivors.

Family Counseling Center of Greater Washington (FCCGW)
Mission: To improve the overall mental health of multicultural individuals and families within the Washington D.C. metropolitan area.
Focus of Grant: Mental health counseling to Korean American families and seniors

Hamkae Center
Mission: Hamkae Center organizes Asian Americans in Virginia for social, racial, and economic justice.
Focus of Grant: Establish statewide coalition to advance better language access

Korean Community Service Center of Greater Washington (KCSC)
Mission: To assist and empower Asian Americans and new immigrants in the DMV area to become well-adjusted and fully contributing members of the United States.
Focus of Grant: Social services for older adults in DMV area


See the full list of all of our past grantee partners here.
Learn more about our COVID-19 Resilience Fund and grantee partners here

Korean American Community Foundation
135 East 64th Street, New York, NY 10065
Phone: 332-265-0508