Small Public Charity

SEJONG CULTURAL SOCIETY

SEJONG CULTURAL SOCIETY is a Small Public Charity headquartered in GLENVIEW, IL. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $77K revenue, $113K expenses, $142K total assets.

EIN: 201530662 GLENVIEW, IL Arts & Culture NTEE: A20 Latest filing: 2025

Total Revenue$77K

Total Expenses$113K

Total Assets$142K

Grant Records0

Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

BY REACHING OUT TO THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS THROUGH CONTEMPORARY CREATIVE AND FINE ARTS, THE SEJONG CULTURAL SOCIETY STRIVES TO ADVANCE AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF KOREA'S HERITAGE AMONGST PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES. IT IS OUR HOPE THAT, THROUGH THIS, THE RICH CULTURE BEHIND KOREA'S COLORFUL HISTORY WILL BE ACCESSIBLE TO PEOPLE OF ANY ETHNICITY AND NATIONALITY WHILE BEING A UNIQUE PART OF THE LARGER, MORE FAMILIAR WESTERN CULTURE. BY BRIDGING ASIAN AND AMERICAN CULTURE WE TRY TO PROMOTE HARMONY AMONG THE MANY DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS IN THE UNITED STATES.

Where $100 goes at Sejong Cultural Society

How Sejong Cultural Society divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990-EZ filings, averaged across 9 years.

$83 Programs the work itself

$17 Everything else operations and overhead

Form 990-EZ reports program spending but doesn't separate management from fundraising, so those are shown together.

Inside the $83 for programs

$45

The sijo is a traditional structured three-line korean poetic form

54% of program spending

$24

The goals of the sejong writing competition are to discover children and young adults talented in writing and to encourage them to learn and write about korea and…

29% of program spending

$14

The goals of the sejong music competition are to discover talented young musicians and encourage them in their studies, and to also introduce traditional korean music expressed through…

17% of program spending

Source: Form 990-EZ filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

DIRECTOR Andrew Bae

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/SECRETARY C Lucy Park

TREASURER Esther Aesuh Yang

PRESIDENT Gye-Young Park

BOARD CHAIR Ho B Kim

DIRECTOR Hyaesung Min Kim

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Financial Trends

Year	Revenue	Expenses	Assets
2025	$77K	$113K	$142K
2024	$105K	$108K	$180K
2023	$122K	$90K	$181K
2022	$98K	$95K	$155K
2021	$57K	$66K	$140K

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue grew from $57K to $77K (+35%), with total assets most recently reported at $142K.

Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.

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