California · Nonprofit
Kidnuz
Kidnuz (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,541 to it, the largest being Independent Arts & Media ($76,824). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $133k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $132k
- Net assets
- $150k
What Kidnuz does
Mission
To engage kids in current events, encourage critical thinking and spark meaningful conversations through our free news platform centered around a 6-story, 7-minute daily current events podcast produced specifically for kids.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kidnuz podcast: A daily, nonpartisan news podcast for kids averaging 250,000 monthly listeners. Kidnuz engages kids in current events, encourages critical thinking, and sparks conversations.
$72,706 spent$35,150 earned by the program100% of program spendingJournalists and other professional contractors are paid significantly below market value for their time. The value of the in-kind volunteer hours donated by these professionals is estimated to be $297,780. These volunteer hours allow KidNuz to free up resources to pay for general operating and programmatic expenses.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $72,706.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $109k to $153k (+41%).
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.
74% of Kidnuz’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $17k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 Kidnuz’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
Kidnuz leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 Kidnuz.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 55% — 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.
Where its funders are
81% of Kidnuz's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Kidnuz runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Kidnuz
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Kidnuz: 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 Kidnuz?
- Kidnuz (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,541 to it, the largest being Independent Arts & Media ($76,824). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Kidnuz have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $131,541 in grants to Kidnuz, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kidnuz?
- Independent Arts & Media is the largest funder on record, with $76,824 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kidnuz 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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