Maryland · Nonprofit
COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC
COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,753,749 to it, the largest being The Charles T Bauer Charitable Foundation ($705,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $548k
What Cool Kids Campaign Foundation Inc does
Mission
To provide kids with cancer and their families with a higher quality of life while facing the challenges of cancer.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Cool kids clubhouses - various programs offered at a center in towson md and huntersville nc designed to address the academic and social and emotional implications of childhood cancer, including 1 education, support and tutoring, 2 social and extra curriculum activities to children with cancer.
$760,242 spent68% of program spendingCool kids campaign - various programs providing activities and networking to children with cancer, such as programs like the cool kids connection a newsletter for children that is distributed to oncology hospitals throughout the usa cool kids care packages items sent to children with cancer to distract them during their treatments and camp.
$202,731 spent18% of program spendingGrants to other organizations.
$102,681 spentof which $102,681 as grants9% of program spendingCancer fears me - a program designed to motivate and empower children with cancer through wearing cancer fears me gear.
$50,683 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,116,337.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $911k to $1.2M (+31%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 7% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Kristopher Amplo
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $229k → $305k.
10 of 62 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 COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
44% 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 COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 41% · 2019 52% · 2020 55% · 2021 35% · 2022 30% · 2023 23% — 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
44% of COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
70% of COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $488k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION 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 COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC?
- COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,753,749 to it, the largest being The Charles T Bauer Charitable Foundation ($705,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $2,753,749 in grants to COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC?
- The Charles T Bauer Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $705,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 62 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