· Public charity
Kaboom Inc
Kaboom!, inc., which we refer to as kaboom!, is the national nonprofit that works to end playspace inequity by uniting with communities to build kid-designed playspaces that can spark joy and foster a sense of belonging for the kids who are often denied opportunities to thrive.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $362,573 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $400,573 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $38,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $349k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF FERNHILL PARK | $31,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $25,000 |
| PARKSIDE FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| BEYOND THE VIEW AUTISM SERVICES | $20,000 |
| MEMORIAL DAY SCHOOL INC | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC | $20,000 |
| COBB COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT(COMPTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL) | $20,000 |
| ASHVIEW HEIGHTS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| GATEWAY HOUSE INC | $20,000 |
| ATLANTA POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC | $20,000 |
| ATLANTA SMART ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| IVY PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC | $20,000 |
| AVONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| CITY OF CEDARTOWN | $20,000 |
| CHARLTON COUNTY RECREATION DEPT | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $422k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $273k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SMStrawberry Mansion Community Development Corporation2× · 2023–2024 · $115k · revenue +606%
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION3× · 2023–2025 · $110k · revenue +195%- CTCalled To Serve CDC Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $110k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue +123%
- BABELMONT ALLIANCE CIVIC ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $80k
- COCITY OF PHILADELPHIA PARKS & RECREATIONone grant, 2020 · $80k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens
The Children's Center is committed to helping children of all backgrounds grow into enthusiastic, kind and confident learners by providing a broad curriculum designed to enhance their social, physical and cognitive development. The…
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those most in need of our services, to realize and develop their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens in a global society.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
At kids can community center, our mission is to educate, engage, and inspire children through early childhood care and out-of-school experiences.
To provide an environment of learning and growth through curricula designed to meet the needs and interests of the whole child, with activities addressing individual learning styles and multiple intelligences.
The boys & girls clubs of the greater chippewa valley's mission is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, caring citizens.
We offer a wide variety of programs and services, providing opportunities for adults and children to improve in spirit, mind and body. the ymca has childcare and preschool for children. we also have fitness classes, swim lessons, and…
Providing recreational activities without regard to race, religion, or socio-economic status
To enable all young people, especially those that need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.
To provide a world-class experience that assures success is within reach of every young person who enters our doors, with all members on track to graduate from high school with a plan for the future, demonstrating good character and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Assoc of Shawnee Ok and the most unlike its peers is Belmont Alliance Civic Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
146 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 146 of the 249 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Good Sports Inc · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Share Our Strength · The Allen Hilles Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Kaboom Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pakachoag Acres Day Care Centerinc — 37% of income from government
- The Community Builders Inc — 4% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.