Kentucky · Nonprofit
COOL KIDS MINISTRIES INC
COOL KIDS MINISTRIES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,207 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($32,630). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $147k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $46k
- Net assets
- $7k
What Cool Kids Ministries Inc does
Mission
We train children and teachers all around the world, but mostly in the USA. We teach and train about God and good Character. We do this through camps, VBS programs, teacher training, Nights of Illusions in conjunction with public schools and churches. Our goal is to Win Kids. Win them over to a life of character and a knowledge of God who we believe is the source of all character. In public schools we focus just on Character. Being honest, loyal, dependable, trustworthy, respectable, responsible, stay off drugs and to not be a bully.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Cool Kids Ministries traveled to 6 different states training teachers and children about God and character. we run teacher training events, do VBS programs and Nights of Illusions helping children and adults find their best potential.
$57,642 spent74% of program spendingCamp Ministry We conducted 2 different camps in 2 separate states teaching children and training adults. We set up the stage, run the service programs and give away prizes to the children and adults.
$9,623 spent12% of program spendingMissions and bible readers We helped missionaries train and further their ministries to children in Haiti, Dominican Republic. We also helped to feed children in the Philippines with a missionary there.
$10,277 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $77,542.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1k to $7k (+477%).
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.
87% of COOL KIDS MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Steve Harney
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $10k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 MINISTRIES 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
COOL KIDS MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% — 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
98% of COOL KIDS MINISTRIES 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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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
COOL KIDS MINISTRIES INC's revenue fell 15% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COOL KIDS MINISTRIES INC
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In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COOL KIDS MINISTRIES INC?
- COOL KIDS MINISTRIES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,207 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($32,630). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COOL KIDS MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $46,207 in grants to COOL KIDS MINISTRIES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COOL KIDS MINISTRIES INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $32,630 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COOL KIDS MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), 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