Minnesota · Nonprofit
Kaleidoscope Learning
Kaleidoscope Learning (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $293,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($263,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $117k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $293k
- Net assets
- $67k
What Kaleidoscope Learning does
Mission
Provide high-quality family and early childhood educational services to families with children ages birth to six years old in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metro Area. We provide a variety of services including a community toy library parent education courses in-center activities that promote development and education open community play in our center community craft events and online parenting content. We strive to be a nexus community center where families can support each other.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Kaleidoscope provides Open Play Hours in our community play space. Free and open to the public these Open Play Hours allow families to gather in our community space to play build community and learn from one another our staff. Open play hours occur most mornings and families with children ages 0-6 are welcome. We estimate hundreds of families participated in our Open Play Hours with families visiting our space multiple times during the year. This is our most popular service due to its accessible and open format.
$19,922 spentof which $30,000 as grants39% of program spendingKaleidoscope Learning hosted a variety of in-person events in our community gathering space in order to promote community connection and yield positive caregiver child experiences. These events such as our Musical Storytimes Fine Motor Fridays and Coffee Tuesdays were held on a weekly basis and we estimated dozens of families participated in these programs throughout the year. Our most popular weekly event was Musical Storytime where families sing dance read and learn alongside each other. In addition to our weekly programming Kaleidoscope also hosted regular evening events such as parent education nights and community craft events with the goal of creating community and supporting the caregiver child dyad. These events often held every two months saw participation rates around five to 10 families per event.
$10,782 spent21% of program spendingKaleidoscope Learnings cornerstone service is our toy library where families are able to rent out toys educational materials games childrens furniture and gross-motor items at a very low cost. Our library had approximately 650 items in rotation for families to rent. Approximately 71 families utilized our library service and our member-families frequently mention that they appreciate our low-cost community driven approach to providing high quality materials to all families in our area.
$19,809 spent39% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $50,513.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $44k to $58k (+30%).
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.
94% of Kaleidoscope Learning’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $55k → $46k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 Kaleidoscope Learning’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
Kaleidoscope Learning leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 Kaleidoscope Learning.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
90% of Kaleidoscope Learning'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. Of the $30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $263k 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
Kaleidoscope Learning runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Kaleidoscope Learning
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Kaleidoscope Learning: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Kaleidoscope Learning?
- Kaleidoscope Learning (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $293,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($263,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Kaleidoscope Learning have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $293,000 in grants to Kaleidoscope Learning, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kaleidoscope Learning?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $263,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kaleidoscope Learning find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 2 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