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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
20/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Kidango Inc does

Mission

To inspire children, empower families, and build stronger communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. 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 program
    84% of program spending
  2. The 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 spent
    13% of program spending
  3. Early 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 spent
    2% of program spending
  4. Community 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 spent
    1% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $123,868,821.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($33M) Expenses 100 ($34M) Net assets 100 ($5.5M)2018 Revenue 142 ($46M) Expenses 122 ($41M) Net assets 226 ($12M)2019 Revenue 139 ($45M) Expenses 134 ($46M) Net assets 226 ($13M)2020 Revenue 148 ($48M) Expenses 141 ($48M) Net assets 229 ($13M)2021 Revenue 185 ($60M) Expenses 177 ($60M) Net assets 258 ($14M)2022 Revenue 210 ($68M) Expenses 196 ($67M) Net assets 261 ($14M)2023 Revenue 323 ($105M) Expenses 288 ($98M) Net assets 409 ($23M)2024 Revenue 390 ($127M) Expenses 321 ($110M) Net assets 776 ($43M)2025 Revenue 404 ($132M) Expenses 372 ($127M) Net assets 923 ($51M)
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Revenue (404)Expenses (372)Net assets (923)Peer revenue range

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%).

$12M
$21M
$21M
$21M
$26M
$28M
$42M
$69M
$82M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 264 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.5M
’17
$4.9M
’18
−$254k
’19
$116k
’20
−$30k
’21
$1.5M
’22
$7.3M
’23
$18M
’24
$4.9M
’25
1.9
months of
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.

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Listed171921212020212221
Joined·+3+4+1+5+3+2+8+3
No longer listed·12163174
03Who funds it

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.

23%
largest funder
59%
top three
~7
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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.

AK
CA
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
California out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Kidango Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 178 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

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.

Federal$80.5M
grants $80.5Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Community Family Services Inc · exempt

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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