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HAPPY HATS FOR KIDS

HAPPY HATS FOR KIDS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,387 to it, the largest being LA CLIPPERS FOUNDATION ($22,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$97k
Revenue FY2025
6
Funders on record
$32k
Grants received
$19k
Net assets
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

Against its field

HAPPY HATS FOR KIDS has grown faster than half of the 5,862 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−20% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,862 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($109k) Expenses 100 ($117k) Net assets 100 ($43k)2018 Revenue 97 ($106k) Expenses 78 ($92k) Net assets 132 ($57k)2019 Revenue 84 ($92k) Expenses 93 ($109k) Net assets 93 ($40k)2020 Revenue 83 ($90k) Expenses 80 ($94k) Net assets 85 ($37k)2021 Revenue 98 ($107k) Expenses 87 ($102k) Net assets 98 ($43k)2022 Revenue 84 ($92k) Expenses 88 ($103k) Net assets 73 ($32k)2023 Revenue 72 ($78k) Expenses 76 ($89k) Net assets 46 ($20k)2024 Revenue 100 ($108k) Expenses 77 ($90k) Net assets 89 ($38k)2025 Revenue 89 ($97k) Expenses 99 ($116k) Net assets 44 ($19k)
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Revenue (89)Expenses (99)Net assets (44)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of HAPPY HATS FOR KIDS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,189 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
17
$14k
18
$17k
19
$3k
20
$6k
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$11k
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$11k
23
$19k
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$19k
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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $1k.

From the IRS filings of HAPPY HATS FOR 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

HAPPY HATS FOR KIDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

69% 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 HAPPY HATS FOR KIDS.

69%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 88% · 2022 100% · 2023 100%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

HAPPY HATS FOR KIDS draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.

WA
OH
CT
CA
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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23
California out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 HAPPY HATS FOR 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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

50%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAPPY HATS FOR 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.

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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 HAPPY HATS FOR KIDS?
HAPPY HATS FOR KIDS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,387 to it, the largest being LA CLIPPERS FOUNDATION ($22,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HAPPY HATS FOR KIDS have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $32,387 in grants to HAPPY HATS FOR KIDS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HAPPY HATS FOR KIDS?
LA CLIPPERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HAPPY HATS FOR 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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