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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.

$401k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$2.2MEducation$749kHealth$482kHuman Services$481kCommunity Improvement$467kArts & Culture$396kYouth Development$363kHousing & Shelter$201kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $362,573, the rows itemized in this filing. The $400,573 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $349k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF FERNHILL PARK$31,000
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$25,000
CHARLTON COUNTY RECREATION DEPT$20,000
IVY PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC$20,000
WALTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$20,000
ASHVIEW HEIGHTS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$20,000
AVONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$20,000
CITY OF CEDARTOWN$20,000
PARKSIDE FOUNDATION INC$20,000
GATEWAY HOUSE INC$20,000
ATLANTA POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC$20,000
COBB COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT(COMPTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL)$20,000
BEYOND THE VIEW AUTISM SERVICES$20,000
ATLANTA SMART ACADEMY$20,000
MEMORIAL DAY SCHOOL INC$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHP: $6k → 11%CAMP PUZZLE PEACE: $51k → 14%FOCUSING FAMILIES: $7k → 14%YMCA OF WICHITA FALLS: $7k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER TULSA: $7k → 15%ANNA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $8k → 16%YMCA OF SHAWNEE: $8k → 19%FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH CDC: $8k → 12%MONROE FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 10%YMCA OF MEMPHIS & MIDSOUTH: $7k → 17%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $9k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF HALL COUNTY: $8k → 12%HARAMBE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $6k → 15%THE CHILDREN'S HOME: $6k → 16%GREATER PEORIA FAMILY YMCA: $8k → 14%KNOX COUNTY YMCA: $8k → 15%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $6k → 19%LOVE CITY INC: $7k → 15%ALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME: $8k → 14%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $50k → 13%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $65k → 22%BY MY SIDE PARENTING: $80k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$960k · 14 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
219

Total granted

$960k
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+29%

Still filing today

57%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $273k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SM
    Strawberry Mansion Community Development Corporation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $115k · revenue +606%
  • RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $110k · revenue +195%
  • CT
    Called To Serve CDC Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $110k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue +123%
  • BM
    BY MY SIDE LTDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue +56%
  • BA
    BELMONT ALLIANCE CIVIC ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $80k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens

Youth Development
2
Kids Can Community Center

At kids can community center, our mission is to educate, engage, and inspire children through early childhood care and out-of-school experiences.

Human Services
3
Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens

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…

Unclassified
4
Kearney Family Ymca

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…

Human Services
5
The Boys & Girls Clubs Inc

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.

—
6
Family Ymca Association

Providing recreational activities without regard to race, religion, or socio-economic status

Human Services
7
Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Carolina

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
8
Boys and Girls Club of Cabarrus County Inc

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
9
Groton Community Schoolinc

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.

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10
Educational Day Care Center Inc

The educational program is designed to develop young children's social, physical, and intellectual skills from 6 weeks through 11 years of age and to prepare them for a successful entrance into elementary school. the after-school program…

Education
11
Boys and Girls Clubs of York County

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…

Youth Development
12
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Billerica Inc

To enable all young people, especially those that need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Assoc of Shawnee Ok; 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.
04the grantee network

146 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
144/146
Grantees still filing
101/146
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $110,100 · Other+134 more: $2,930,634 · Other+134 moreStrawberry Mansion Community Development Corporation: $115,000 · Community ImprovementStrawberry Ma…Called To Serve CDC Inc: $110,000 · Community ImprovementCalled To Ser…FRIENDS OF FERNHILL PARK: $104,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF FE…RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $75,000 · Community ImprovementRANDOLPH AREA…PHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $70,000 · Community ImprovementPHILADELPHIA …PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC: $68,000 · Community ImprovementPHILADELPHIA …DELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION: $59,000 · Community ImprovementDELAWARE RIVE…HOWELL MAIN STREET INC: $27,825 · Community Improvement+4 more: $33,750 · Community ImprovementBY MY SIDE LTD: $80,000 · Human ServicesBY MY SID…COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $65,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $65,000 · Human ServicesNATIONALI…CAMP PUZZLE PEACE: $51,450 · Human ServicesCAMP PUZZ…The Rural Outreach Center Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesThe Rural…THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MONROE MICHIGAN: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG…GATEWAY HOUSE INC: $20,000 · Human Services+11 more: $88,243 · Human Services+11 moreHOUGHTON UNIVERSITY: $67,000 · EducationKING CENTER CHARTER SCHOOL: $63,000 · EducationPEOPLE FOR PEOPLE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $60,000 · EducationROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $32,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $27,000 · EducationIVY PREPARATORY ACADEMY INCORPORATED: $20,000 · EducationAVONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationMEMORIAL DAY SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationATLANTA SMART ACADEMY INC: $20,000 · EducationMINETTO HSA INC: $16,000 · EducationKANKAKEE TRINITY ACADEMY: $14,000 · Education+6 more: $48,794 · EducationGenesee-Orleanse Regional Arts Council: $70,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGVILLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $68,000 · Arts & CultureNW GOLDBERG CARES INC: $64,000 · Arts & CultureCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $63,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLAY STUDIO: $28,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TAMPA INC: $19,832 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $15,274 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $83,000 · HealthPUENTES DE SALUD: $75,000 · HealthFINGER LAKES HEALTH SYSTEMS AGENCY: $60,000 · HealthCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK INC: $42,500 · HealthINDEPENDENT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $28,000 · Health+3 more: $23,564 · HealthClean Air Council: $133,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE RAIL PARK: $108,025 · Environment
Other$3,040,734Community Improvement$662,575Human Services$469,693Education$407,794Arts & Culture$328,106Health$312,064Environment$241,025

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClean Air Council: $133,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetStrawberry Mansion Community Development Corporation: $115,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $110,100 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCalled To Serve CDC Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RAIL PARK: $108,025 over 2y, 15% of budgetFRIENDS OF FERNHILL PARK: $104,000 over 2y, 82% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $83,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $80,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAdvancing Macomb Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetPUENTES DE SALUD: $75,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION: $74,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $70,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetGenesee-Orleanse Regional Arts Council: $70,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetSPRINGVILLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $68,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetHOUGHTON UNIVERSITY: $67,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKENAN CENTER INC: $67,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $66,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $65,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $65,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNW GOLDBERG CARES INC: $64,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetKING CENTER CHARTER SCHOOL: $63,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $63,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia: $60,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetFINGER LAKES HEALTH SYSTEMS AGENCY: $60,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPEOPLE FOR PEOPLE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION: $59,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $54,550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOW YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $51,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Rural Outreach Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MONROE MICHIGAN: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK INC: $42,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFRANKFORD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $41,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetGeneration Two Creating Intergenerational Friendships Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $32,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CLAY STUDIO: $28,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOWELL MAIN STREET INC: $27,825 over 1y, 11% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $27,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL PROGRESO LIBRARY: $22,991 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetIVY PREPARATORY ACADEMY INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAVONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetMEMORIAL DAY SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetATLANTA SMART ACADEMY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGATEWAY HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TAMPA INC: $19,832 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR AQUATIC SCIENCES: $18,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMINETTO HSA INC: $16,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetKANKAKEE TRINITY ACADEMY: $14,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The William Penn Foun…Boys & Girls Clubs of…Good Sports IncBoys & Girls Clubs of…Community Foundation …United Way of Greater…The Philadelphia Foun…National Council of Y…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Henrietta Tower Wurts…Share Our StrengthThe Allen Hilles Fund
The William Penn FoundationPA26.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kaboom Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kaboom Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Pakachoag Acres Day Care Centerinc: 37% of income from government
  • The Community Builders Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 249 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home