Florida · Nonprofit
COLLEGE FOR KIDS INC
COLLEGE FOR KIDS INC (Florida) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,434,118 to it, the largest being TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ($2,383,286). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $8.4M
- Net assets
- $12M
What College for Kids Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to passionately promote self-worth, personal responsibility, and academic success for qualified, financially at-risk students throughout palm beach county by providing a unique set of resources which includes one-on-one mentoring services, college readiness coaching, college advising, post-secondary retention services, and a guaranteed post-secondary full-tuition college scholarship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Take stock in children palm beach county is dedicated to promoting personal responsibility and academic success for at-risk youth through a comprehensive, evidence-based program model. Our innovative multi-year approach provides wraparound support services to students throughout their middle and high school years, continuing through post-secondary completion. Students, typically enrolled from 6th to 9th grade, participate for an average of 5 to 8 years. Each student is matched with a caring adult mentor for weekly meetings, receives continuous academic support, and benefits from ongoing college readiness services provided by assigned college readiness coaches. Upon high school graduation, students receive a minimum 2-year florida prepaid college tuition scholarship. Throughout the school year, we offer monthly workshops for students and families, addressing social/emotional issues, common stressors, system barriers, communication tools, financial literacy, and academic preparation. We also provide local community service opportunities to develop students' interests, skills, and talents while fostering community engagement. In the senior year, students are introduced to college…
$1,037,435 spentof which $84,581 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,037,435.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $8.7M to $12M (+35%).
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: 2018 21% · 2019 17% · 2020 21% · 2021 26% · 2022 16% · 2023 11% · 2024 6% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of COLLEGE FOR KIDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Evan Bolinski Cfa
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $409k → $1.8M.
5 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 COLLEGE FOR KIDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
COLLEGE FOR KIDS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
71% 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 COLLEGE FOR KIDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 48% · 2019 49% · 2020 32% · 2021 30% · 2022 37% · 2023 50% — 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
67% of COLLEGE FOR KIDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
98% of COLLEGE FOR KIDS INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
COLLEGE FOR KIDS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COLLEGE FOR 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 COLLEGE FOR 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 COLLEGE FOR KIDS INC?
- COLLEGE FOR KIDS INC (Florida) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,434,118 to it, the largest being TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ($2,383,286). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLLEGE FOR KIDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $8,434,118 in grants to COLLEGE FOR KIDS INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLEGE FOR KIDS INC?
- TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN is the largest funder on record, with $2,383,286 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLEGE FOR KIDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 31 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