California · Nonprofit
CRAYONS4KIDS INC
CRAYONS4KIDS INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,381 to it, the largest being JAMES R RYAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CRAYONS4KIDS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,429 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,429 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2018
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundationshared funders
- Sky High for Kids Incportfolio match
- Chartway Promise Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $13k → $3k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CRAYONS4KIDS 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
CRAYONS4KIDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 83% · 2019 69% · 2020 69% · 2021 71% · 2022 71% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
CRAYONS4KIDS INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 19 organizations that share your funders
- Sky High for Kids Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chartway Promise Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Incshared fundersMI · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- Colten Cowell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Magnified Givingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shirley's Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bloomfield Senior Citizens Housing Felicity Towersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Appletree Hill Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles E & Carol J Miller Familyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grace Hospice Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wimberg Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CRAYONS4KIDS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CRAYONS4KIDS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CRAYONS4KIDS INC?
- CRAYONS4KIDS INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,381 to it, the largest being JAMES R RYAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CRAYONS4KIDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $79,381 in grants to CRAYONS4KIDS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRAYONS4KIDS INC?
- JAMES R RYAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRAYONS4KIDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2018–2018), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing