New York · Nonprofit
INDYKIDS INC
INDYKIDS INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $41 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($41). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $41
- Net assets
- $5k
What Indykids Inc does
Mission
To produce a newspaper for kids and conducts journalism workshops throughout the year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The organization produces newspaper written by kids for kids. It prints 5 paper issues and 4 online issues. It's mailed and distributed 8000-1000 copies of each issue. It also produces a teacher's guide that helps educators and parents in discussing articles printed in the paper. The paper teaches yout to become engaged citizens through the production of a current event newspaper and website.
$24,083 spent100% of program spendingIt also facilitates 5 workshops in media literacy for elementary and middle school kids. It also provides classroomo visits to public schools in the five boroughs teaching media literacy
During the school year, in each cycle of the krp workshops, students research, draft, edit and revise articles abou the nation & world news, culture, history, activism, sports, the environment. The stories are published in either the print edition of indykids or online. Indykids hold five cycles of its three-part kid reporter program (krp) journalism workshop, which trains youths ages 9-15 in the new york city metro area critical media literacy, interviewing, pdcasting writing skills to produce a print newspaper distributed nationwide. During this period, indykids launched the first ever krp summer camp at the newmark graduate school of journalism at cuny. We accept between 10 and 15 students for each cycle of krp. This year, we trained a total of 80 students in the physical workshop.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,083.
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.
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 $208 to $18k (+8483%).
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.
74% of INDYKIDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Jyothi Natarajan
Board chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $13 → $17.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 INDYKIDS 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.
Where its funders are
100% of INDYKIDS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
INDYKIDS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like INDYKIDS INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 INDYKIDS INC?
- INDYKIDS INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $41 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($41). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INDYKIDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $41 in grants to INDYKIDS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDYKIDS INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $41 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDYKIDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing