Virginia · Nonprofit
HERO KIDS FOUNDATION
HERO KIDS FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,531 to it, the largest being SENTARA HEALTHCARE ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HERO KIDS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,726 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Birdsong Trust Fundlocal
- Next Chapter a de Lisi Family Foundationportfolio match
- Samta Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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.
100% of HERO KIDS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $23k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 HERO KIDS FOUNDATION’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
HERO KIDS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
52% 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 HERO KIDS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 85% · 2022 100% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
81% of HERO KIDS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Birdsong Trust FundlocalVA · funds 14 organizations near you
- Next Chapter a de Lisi Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Samta Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wolfsohn Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kohnken Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kiwanis Club of Norfolk Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A Frederick Banfield Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hung Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tidewater Children's Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nesburn Family Foundation Co Anthony B Nesburn Mdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John M Paz Fdn 12 23 10 John M Paz & Bbhtcdeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cook 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 HERO KIDS FOUNDATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 HERO KIDS FOUNDATION: 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 HERO KIDS FOUNDATION?
- HERO KIDS FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,531 to it, the largest being SENTARA HEALTHCARE ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HERO KIDS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $73,531 in grants to HERO KIDS FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HERO KIDS FOUNDATION?
- SENTARA HEALTHCARE is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HERO KIDS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 11funders 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