California · Nonprofit
Growing Healthy Kids
Growing Healthy Kids (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Growing Healthy Kids runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Justice Justice Foundationshared funderslocal
- Swantz Family Foundationportfolio match
- First Children's Finance Groupportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Growing Healthy Kids’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
Growing Healthy Kids leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
50% 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 Growing Healthy Kids.
“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
Growing Healthy Kids draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Justice Justice Foundationshared funderslocalDE · backs 14 organizations that share your funders · funds 38 organizations near you
- Swantz Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Children's Finance Groupportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Big Greenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Quimby Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Let's Grow Kids Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Recreation Foundation Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Visit Org Philanthropic Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Green Leaf Foundation Nushin Kormi Et Al Trusteesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Child Care Connection Inc DBA Threadportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Children's Financeportfolio 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 Growing Healthy Kids
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.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Growing Healthy Kids: 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 Growing Healthy Kids?
- Growing Healthy Kids (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Growing Healthy Kids have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,000 in grants to Growing Healthy Kids.
- Who is the largest funder of Growing Healthy Kids?
- Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Growing Healthy Kids 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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