Koreatown Youth And Community Center, Inc.

Koreatown Youth And Community Center, Inc., doing business as Kycc, is a Los Angeles-based tax-exempt nonprofit organization that delivers federal grant funding as a prime recipient across tax assistance, small-business counseling, cultural programming, and community nutrition initiatives. Kycc operates exclusively in the grant space with no federal contract prime awards; the organization acts as grant recipient on 85% of its recent federal awards (34 prime grants) and as subrecipient on 15% (6 sub-awards).

Kycc's primary capability centers on tax-related services. The Internal Revenue Service accounts for 24 awards through two programs: the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Matching Grant Program (CFDA 21.009), under which Kycc delivers free tax return preparation and filing services to low- to moderate-income populations in the Los Angeles area, including persons with disabilities, English-language learners, and elderly individuals; and the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) program, under which Kycc provides tax representation, education, and advocacy to taxpayers earning up to 250 percent of the federal poverty line, including ESL speakers. A representative VITA award delivered $550,000 for the period October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026, with Kycc obligated to achieve at least 90 percent of returns prepared for EITC-eligible filers and 100 percent electronic filing of eligible returns. Two additional major prime capabilities include a $1 million Community Navigator Pilot Program grant from the Small Business Administration's Office of Entrepreneurial Development (CFDA 59.077) awarded February 10, 2022, under which Kycc operates as a "hub" delivering direct technical assistance and pandemic-relief counseling to socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses while overseeing subrecipient "spokes," and cultural and arts programming through the National Endowment for the Arts, which has funded the Koreatown Storytelling Program across three awards focused on intergenerational oral history, ethnography, and traditional healing arts.

Treasury (IRS and other Treasury offices) dominates customer concentration with 30 of 40 awards (75% coverage). The National Endowment for the Arts, the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, and the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration collectively account for the remaining identified prime awards. Kycc also acts as subrecipient under state-administered federal nutrition programs through the California Department of Social Services (Child and Adult Food Care Program sub-awards awarded October 2025) and collaborates on trauma-informed youth-serving projects under the Center for the Pacific-Asian Family and California Department of Health Care Services (sub-awards from April 2022 and April 2023).

The organization's award activity peaked in 2022 with 10 grants, then contracted to 3 awards each in 2023 and 2024, with recent activity rising to 5 awards in 2025 year to date. Three awards face completion within the next twenty-four months. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $15.3 million over the source data period, with recent annual grants in the $550,000 range for VITA and smaller allocations for arts programming.