Ohio · Nonprofit
4 THE KIDZ AKA FRIENDS OF THE PROGRAM
4 THE KIDZ AKA FRIENDS OF THE PROGRAM (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,565 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,565). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $42k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $802
What 4 the Kidz Aka Friends of the Program does
Mission
4 the kidz shall be organized as set forth in the articles of incorporation to support associated athletic clubs, sports teams, and youth organizations through coordinating events and raising money to p rovide educational, nutritional and equipment support for underserved athletic programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided healthy snacks throughout the season to student athletes representing high school athletic departments, and all coming from disadvantaged populations. Provided necessities for college visits and college skills camps to expose disadvantaged student athletes to potential postgrad opportunities. Students came from large high schools serving a disadvantaged population purchased additional uniforms, practice essentials, uniform essentials (knee pads, girdles, etc) and badly needed equipment for football program
Provided healthy snacks throughout the season to student athletes representing high school athletic departments, and all coming from disadvantaged populations. Provided necessities for college visits and college skills camps to expose disadvantaged student athletes to potential postgrad opportunities. Students came from large high schools serving a disadvantaged population purchased additional uniforms, practice essentials, uniform essentials (knee pads, girdles, etc) and badly needed equipment for football program
$46,532 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,532.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $317 to $24k (+7522%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of 4 THE KIDZ AKA FRIENDS OF THE PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $6k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 4 THE KIDZ AKA FRIENDS OF THE PROGRAM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
4 THE KIDZ AKA FRIENDS OF THE PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
53% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 4 THE KIDZ AKA FRIENDS OF THE PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
53% of 4 THE KIDZ AKA FRIENDS OF THE PROGRAM's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
4 THE KIDZ AKA FRIENDS OF THE PROGRAM's revenue fell 27% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,011 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like 4 THE KIDZ AKA FRIENDS OF THE PROGRAM
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 4 THE KIDZ AKA FRIENDS OF THE PROGRAM?
- 4 THE KIDZ AKA FRIENDS OF THE PROGRAM (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,565 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,565). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does 4 THE KIDZ AKA FRIENDS OF THE PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,565 in grants to 4 THE KIDZ AKA FRIENDS OF THE PROGRAM.
- Who is the largest funder of 4 THE KIDZ AKA FRIENDS OF THE PROGRAM?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,565 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 4 THE KIDZ AKA FRIENDS OF THE PROGRAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing