Delaware · Nonprofit
Clothing Our Kids Inc
Clothing Our Kids Inc (Delaware) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,922 to it, the largest being THE CARL M FREEMAN FOUNDATION INC ($53,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $244k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $292k
- Net assets
- $461k
What Clothing Our Kids Inc does
Mission
The mission of Clothing Our Kids is to improve the lives of at risk elementary and middle school children in Pre-K through High School by providing them with appropriate school clothing. In Sussex County, Delaware many children do not have essential school clothing which has a direct negative impact on their self-esteem, their school attendance, their ability to learn, and can lead to bullying. It is our goal to assist these children with an equal start in their early education and help them become successful students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Clothing Our Kids extended its mission services from at risk elementary and middle school children in Pre-K through the eighth grade to include High School children by providing them with appropriate school clothing.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
For the year ending June 30, 2025 Clothing Our Kids distributed 28,330 items of clothing to 3,218 underserved children in Sussex County, DE. Since its inception in 2012 Clothing Our Kids has distributed 249,112 items of clothing to 39,075 children in pre-k through high school.
$178,476 spent100% of program spendingN/a
$0 spent0% of program spendingN/a
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $178,476.
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 $332k to $410k (+23%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 4% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of Clothing Our Kids Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $22k → $36k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Clothing Our Kids Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 funders by total. 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
Clothing Our Kids Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 45% · 2019 47% · 2020 37% · 2021 28% · 2022 33% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
33% of Clothing Our Kids Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of Clothing Our Kids Inc's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Clothing Our Kids Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Clothing Our Kids 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 Clothing Our Kids 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 Clothing Our Kids Inc?
- Clothing Our Kids Inc (Delaware) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,922 to it, the largest being THE CARL M FREEMAN FOUNDATION INC ($53,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Clothing Our Kids Inc have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $291,922 in grants to Clothing Our Kids Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Clothing Our Kids Inc?
- THE CARL M FREEMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $53,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Clothing Our Kids Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 19 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