Alabama · Nonprofit
GROWING KINGS INC
GROWING KINGS INC (Alabama) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $906,171 to it, the largest being MIKE AND GILLIAN GOODRICH FOUNDATION ($310,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $849k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $906k
- Net assets
- $338k
What Growing Kings Inc does
Mission
Growing Kings operates with a mission to encourage and facilitate the critical thinking and positive attitudes of underserved male youth through systemic and targeted enrichment, research, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Journey of a King: Journey of a King is a series of three school-based mentoring and enrichment programs offered to male students in the 4th-12th grades; providing students with the opportunity to participate in nine years of comprehensive and consistent programming. These programs are designed to improve students' academic, behavioral, and societal outcomes. The programs are implemented in schools based on the number of students who receive free and/or reduced lunch. Each program with the Journey of a King series operates with its own distinct curriculum that is relevant in content and delivery methodology. Journey of a King programs include: Prince Charming, Measures of a Man, and Scholars and Gentlemen.
$100,079 spent$572,792 earned by the program61% of program spendingAll the King's Men: All the King's Men is an innovative mentor recruitment and training program designed to teach highly effective techniques and practices that equips qualified men with the tools needed to be successful and implementing our program curricula. The training combines theoretical approaches and empirical experiences in effective mentoring to ensure that each participant is knowledgeable of the best ways to empower male youth to be catalysts for change. All the King's Men prepares mentors with the finite ability to foster quality relationships with male students while encouraging them to be successful in life.
$20,772 spent$211,079 earned by the program13% of program spendingThe King in Me: The King in Me is an alternative-to-detention diversion program designed to reduce the number of low-level juvenile cases filed, and reduce the overall number of male youth who become involved with the juvenile court system. The program engages 14-17 year old male youth who have been arrested, are actively involved in the juvenile justice system, pose a risk to public safety, and/or are likely to fail to appear in court. The King in Me employs a non-punitive approach in the filing of juvenile cases by diverting youth into an evidence-based treatment program, as opposed to pursuing post-adjudication consequences, which often result in a juvenile record and juvenile detention.
$43,859 spent$20,992 earned by the program27% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $164,710.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $62k to $703k (+1036%).
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 20% · 2021 51% · 2022 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $361k → $42k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 GROWING KINGS 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
GROWING KINGS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 KINGS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 38% · 2019 59% · 2020 39% · 2021 92% · 2022 53% · 2023 52% — 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
14% of GROWING KINGS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
GROWING KINGS INC draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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.
Government funding GROWING KINGS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $604k on record.
- Department of Justice$604k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GROWING KINGS 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GROWING KINGS INC?
- GROWING KINGS INC (Alabama) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $906,171 to it, the largest being MIKE AND GILLIAN GOODRICH FOUNDATION ($310,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROWING KINGS INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $906,171 in grants to GROWING KINGS INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROWING KINGS INC?
- MIKE AND GILLIAN GOODRICH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $310,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROWING KINGS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2018–2022), and the filings of 17 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing