Maryland · Nonprofit
KABOOM INC
KABOOM INC (Maryland) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,115,359 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($14,035,200). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
KABOOM INC's funding base is broadening — from 30 funders to 51 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 138 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared funders
- Jane Schwartz Foundation Incportfolio match
- Simeon and Jean H Locke Charitable Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 13% · 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of KABOOM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $6.1M → $9.2M.
31 of 134 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 KABOOM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 134 funders by total. 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
KABOOM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
61% 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 KABOOM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 19% · 2019 17% · 2020 22% · 2021 34% · 2022 71% · 2023 25% — broadly stable.
“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
30% of KABOOM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
KABOOM INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 statesis 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 134 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 118 organizations that share your funders
- Jane Schwartz Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Simeon and Jean H Locke Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Curtis Granderson Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ruth L Lee Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ariko Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Beverage Foundation for a Healthy Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wolfsohn Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Llhlhm Foundation Margaret Baird Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Matzkin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 187 organizations that share your funders
- Kpmg US Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 100 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding KABOOM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18k on record.
- SCHOOLS OPERATING SUPPLIES$10k
- ATHLETIC SUPPLIES$9k
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 KABOOM INC
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 Maryland
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
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Kaboom Play Initiatives LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KABOOM INC: 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 KABOOM INC?
- KABOOM INC (Maryland) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,115,359 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($14,035,200). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KABOOM INC have?
- IRS filings report 134 organizations giving $81,115,359 in grants to KABOOM INC, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KABOOM INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $14,035,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KABOOM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 134funders 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