Tennessee · Nonprofit
CHILDRENS KINDNESS NETWORK INC
CHILDRENS KINDNESS NETWORK INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,177 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2017
- $23k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $212k
- Net assets
- $120k
What Childrens Kindness Network Inc does
Mission
The childrens kindness network is a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) dedicated to stop bulling before it begins by teaching kindness values to young children through moozie the cow
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
The childrens kindness network has brought new programs and materials on kindness to help busy preschool teachers. Bringing kindness teaching to at-risk children is especially critical in their early brain wiring - some middle tennessee counties have 64% of their 4-year-olds considered economically at risk putting many low income, minority children behind in brain development. Social emotional learning, kindness, effects cognitive learning as well.moozie becomes a dear friend to the children. Teachers find moozie to be a very helpful assistant in classroom management. When discipline problems arise, the teach may ask what would moozie say/doyearly, over 30,000 children hear moozies message of kindness, and this number is growing as more and more schools are using moozie teaches kindness materials.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $25.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CHILDRENS KINDNESS NETWORK INC’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
CHILDRENS KINDNESS NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
100% 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 CHILDRENS KINDNESS NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
100% of CHILDRENS KINDNESS NETWORK INC'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 $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $212k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
CHILDRENS KINDNESS NETWORK INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2017
Organizations like CHILDRENS KINDNESS NETWORK INC
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDRENS KINDNESS NETWORK INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDRENS KINDNESS NETWORK INC?
- CHILDRENS KINDNESS NETWORK INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,177 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHILDRENS KINDNESS NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $212,177 in grants to CHILDRENS KINDNESS NETWORK INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDRENS KINDNESS NETWORK INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDRENS KINDNESS NETWORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 4 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing