California · Nonprofit
KATHRYN KURKA CHILDREN'S HEALTH FUND
KATHRYN KURKA CHILDREN'S HEALTH FUND (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,502 to it, the largest being ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $201k
- Net assets
- $115k
What Kathryn Kurka Children's Health Fund does
Mission
The kurka children's health fund is committed to helping students of the los angeles unified school district (lausd) be ready to learn by improving the health status of its most vulnerable children and youth.kurka children's health fund provides essential medical support to low- income and disadvantaged lausd students, ensuring access to vision and dental care, immunizations, wheelchairs, and other vital health services. Since its founding in 1956 and irs recognition in 1987, kurka has served hundreds of thousands of students, prioritizing their well-being so theycan succeed in school.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Distributed dental hygiene kits and healthcare supplies to 5,000 lausd students. Supplied fluoride varnish treatments to 700 lausd students. Funded dental supplies for smilegivers dental clinic, supporting 1,000 students in lausd dental programs
$7,898 spent15% of program spendingPurchased lensometers for lausd vision clinics to replace nonworking and outdated equipment, improving student eye care. Provided over 1,000 glasses frames and cases for students who also received free vision services. Covers the cost of eye exams for students.
$9,183 spent17% of program spendingOperates with a volunteer board of retired lausd district nursing personnel. Provides ongoing consulting services to 800 lausd school nurses and district nursing services administrative personnel.
$31,445 spent59% of program spendingProvided wheelchairs for two lausd students who had no means to purchase their own. Kurka never refuses an lausd student in needevery student receives the support they require.
$4,653 spent9% of program spendingLos angeles unified school district ccc
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $53,179.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $143k to $68k (−52%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $132 → $75k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 KATHRYN KURKA CHILDREN'S HEALTH FUND’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
KATHRYN KURKA CHILDREN'S HEALTH FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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
100% 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 KATHRYN KURKA CHILDREN'S HEALTH FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
75% of KATHRYN KURKA CHILDREN'S HEALTH FUND'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 $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $151k 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.
Organizations like KATHRYN KURKA CHILDREN'S HEALTH FUND
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In California
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KATHRYN KURKA CHILDREN'S HEALTH FUND: 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 KATHRYN KURKA CHILDREN'S HEALTH FUND?
- KATHRYN KURKA CHILDREN'S HEALTH FUND (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,502 to it, the largest being ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KATHRYN KURKA CHILDREN'S HEALTH FUND have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $200,502 in grants to KATHRYN KURKA CHILDREN'S HEALTH FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KATHRYN KURKA CHILDREN'S HEALTH FUND?
- ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KATHRYN KURKA CHILDREN'S HEALTH FUND 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.
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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 3 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