California · Nonprofit
Kidango Inc
Kidango Inc (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,771,987 to it, the largest being TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ($1,580,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $132M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $51M
What Kidango Inc does
Mission
To inspire children, empower families, and build stronger communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kidango, Inc. provides high-quality early learning and child development services to more than 4,511 children and families. Through our network of child development centers and family child care homes, we offer full-day and part-day programs, including infant, toddler, preschool, and school-age care, as well as after-school programs. Our programs are delivered in rich, stimulating, multilingual, and culturally responsive environments that reflect and celebrate the diverse communities we serve.
$104,092,082 spent$629,848 earned by the program84% of program spendingThe Kidango Early Head Start (EHS) / Head Start (HS) Program is federally funded and serves children ages birth to 5 years through part day and full day services.Kidango provides EHS/HS Services for 818 children through its own Grantee and through its program partners, the YMCA of the East Bay, Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE) and CAPE.See Schedule O for more details.
$16,211,524 spent13% of program spendingEarly Intervention and Inclusion Services:-19 Early Intervention and Inclusion Staff Total- 14.5 Developmental Specialists 2 Program Supervisors 1 Manager 1 DirectorSee Schedule O for more details.
$2,182,733 spent2% of program spendingCommunity Family Services, Inc.: Community Family Services, Inc. (CFS) provides quality child development services for almost 155 children ages 0-12 in 13 family child-care homes in Santa Clara County. In addition to coordinating child-care in home-based settings, our CFS program provides families and staff with the following program services: A child development and education component in which every child has access to and participates in developmentally appropriate learning activities. Family focused programs as the nucleus to encouraging parent leadership and learning. Social services and health services to assist families and children. Professional development opportunities for staff and providers to meet the high standards set by Kidango, Inc.
$1,382,482 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $123,868,821.
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 2023 to 2024, from $42M to $69M (+63%).
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: 2017 80% · 2018 68% · 2019 80% · 2020 82% · 2021 91% · 2022 93% · 2023 94% · 2024 94% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Kidango Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Scott Moore
CEO
Board chair
Catherine Atkin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $574k → $1.3M.
8 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Kidango Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 27 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
Kidango Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
42% 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 Kidango Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 71% · 2019 56% · 2020 30% · 2021 30% · 2022 30% · 2023 23% — 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.
How long its funders stay
56% of Kidango Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
99% of Kidango Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $734k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
Kidango Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 178 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 178 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Kidango Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$80.5M
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 Kidango Inc
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Community Family Services Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Kidango 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Kidango Inc?
- Kidango Inc (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,771,987 to it, the largest being TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ($1,580,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Kidango Inc have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $6,771,987 in grants to Kidango Inc, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kidango Inc?
- TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY is the largest funder on record, with $1,580,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kidango Inc 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 27 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