KOREA SOCIETY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

Q200

Classification

1000

Street

350 MADISON AVENUE 24TH FLOOR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• MEDIA: SEE SCHEDULE O.

  Expenses $851,782

• BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS: SEE SCHEDULE O.

  Expenses $670,885 · Grants $2,300 · Revenue $9,843

• EDUCATION: SEE SCHEDULE O.

  Expenses $604,680 · Grants $22,000 · Revenue $289,332

• POLICY: IN 2025, KOREA SOCIETY'S POLICY PROGRAMS NAVIGATED A YEAR OF PROFOUND GEOPOLITICAL SHIFTS, PROVIDING ESSENTIAL CLARITY AND CREDIBLE INSIGHTS ON THE U.S.-REPUBLIC OF KOREA (ROK) RELATIONSHIP. A DEFINING HIGHLIGHT OF THE YEAR WAS THE VAN FLEET POLICY FORUM, HOSTED AT THE ATLANTIC COUNCIL'S D.C. OFFICE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE INDO-PACIFIC SECURITY INITIATIVE. THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, THE SOCIETY'S POLICY TEAM CARRIED OUT LONG-FORM POLICY PROGRAMS AND ENGAGING SHORT-FORM MEDIA FEATURING EXPERT SPEAKERS TOUCHING ON A RANGE OF TOPICS FROM GEOECONOMICS TO DIPLOMACY. THE KIM KOO PROFESSIONAL SERIES REMAINED A CORNERSTONE OF OUR NEW YORK PROGRAMMING, CONVENING BUSINESS, NONPROFIT, ACADEMIC, AND MEDIA PROFESSIONALS FOR SIX SPECIALIZED ROUNDTABLES ON TOPICS RANGING FROM MARITIME SHIPBUILDING COOPERATION TO U.S.-KOREA-JAPAN TRILATERAL RELATIONS. THE SOCIETY HONORED U.S. VETERANS WITH AN ANNUAL ARMISTICE DAY SALUTE TO AMERICAN AND KOREAN AMERICAN VETERANS OF THE KOREAN WAR.TOTAL NUMBER OF PROGRAMS: 27REGISTRANTS FOR ALL PROGRAMS: 5,452YOUTUBE VIEWS FOR ALL PROGRAMS: 118,984PODCAST DOWNLOADS FOR ALL PROGRAMS: 16,747ARTS AND CULTURE: IN 2025, THE ARTS & CULTURE DEPARTMENT CONTINUED ITS MISSION TO PROMOTE THE EXCELLENCE AND DIVERSITY OF KOREAN AND KOREAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS, PERFORMERS, AUTHORS, AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS WITHIN THE ARTS AND CULTURE SECTOR. THIS WAS ACHIEVED BY A VARIETY OF EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS OFFERED BOTH IN-PERSON AND ONLINE. BY PROVIDING NUMEROUS, TARGETED PROGRAMS TO CATER TO DIVERSE INTERESTS AND TASTES, THE ARTS & CULTURE DEPARTMENT SUCCESSFULLY ATTRACTED NEW DEMOGRAPHICS AND AUDIENCES. FURTHERMORE, THESE EFFORTS RAISED THE EXPOSURE AND AWARENESS OF KOREAN ARTS AND CULTURE AMONG ENGLISH-SPEAKING AUDIENCES WHILE PROVIDING A VITAL PLATFORM FOR KOREAN, KOREAN-BORN, AND ARTISTS OF KOREAN DESCENT TO SHOWCASE THEIR WORK. NOTABLE PARTICIPANTS INCLUDED ILYON WOO, THE PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR; SARAH AHN AND NAMSOON AHN, THE AUTHORS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING COOKBOOK UMMA: A KOREAN MOM'S KITCHEN WISDOM AND 100 FAMILY RECIPES; AND LEE CHANG-DONG, THE CELEBRATED KOREAN AUTEUR.TOTAL NUMBER OF PROGRAM: 38TOTAL REGISTRATIONS [IN-PERSON & ONLINE]: 5,031YOUTUBE VIEWS FOR PROGRAMS: 20,629THE CONGRESSIONAL STUDY GROUP ON KOREA (CGSK), LAUNCHED IN FEBRUARY 2018 WITH THE U.S. ASSOCIATION OF FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS (FMC), ORGANIZES AN ANNUAL STUDY TOUR TO KOREA FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO DISCUSS KEY U.S.-ROK ISSUES WITH SENIOR KOREAN OFFICIALS. THE SIXTH ANNUAL MEMBER OF CONGRESS STUDY TOUR WAS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED IN APRIL 2025 BY FMC IN COLLABORATION WITH THE KOREA SOCIETY. SEVEN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, INCLUDING ONE CGSK CO-CHAIR AND SIX OTHER REPRESENTATIVES (THREE DEMOCRATS, THREE REPUBLICANS), MET WITH KOREA'S MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND OTHER HIGH-LEVEL OFFICIALS AS WELL AS KEY KOREAN BUSINESSES AND PARTNERS DURING THE WEEK IN SEOUL AND NEARBY SITES.

  Expenses $1,292,691 · Grants $250,000

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $11,638,779

  Expenses

  $5,210,526

  Contributions

  $2,765,381

  Grants paid

  $274,300

• 2024

  Revenue

  $3,612,162

  Expenses

  $3,984,029

  Contributions

  $2,324,032

  Grants paid

  $18,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $3,540,827

  Expenses

  $3,755,584

  Contributions

  $2,347,670

  Grants paid

  $246,086

• 2022

  Revenue

  $5,439,144

  Expenses

  $3,476,977

  Contributions

  $3,238,679

  Grants paid

  $240,781

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,688,770

  Expenses

  $2,989,793

  Assets (EOY)

  $30,574,587

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,566,882

  Expenses

  $2,928,001

  Assets (EOY)

  $27,780,256

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,599,558

  Expenses

  $2,906,161

  Assets (EOY)

  $26,318,183

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,514,618

  Expenses

  $2,825,740

  Assets (EOY)

  $23,988,934

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

• FORMER MEMEBERS OF CONGRESS (FMC)

  $250,000

  2025 · TO SUPPORT THE CONGRESSIONAL STUDY GROUP ON KOREA

• FORMER MEMEBERS OF CONGRESS (FMC)

  $234,086

  2023 · TO SUPPORT THE CONGRESSIONAL STUDY GROUP ON KOREA

• FORMER MEMEBERS OF CONGRESS (FMC)

  $120,781

  2022 · TO SUPPORT THE CONGRESSIONAL STUDY GROUP ON KOREA

• CSIS

  $100,000

  2022 · TO SUPPORT US-ROK ALLLIANCE STUDY

• UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

  $20,000

  2022 · TO SUPPORT ASIAN STUDIES CENTER

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $41,000

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $20,250

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $10,000

  2023 · INTERNATIONAL, FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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