Florida · Nonprofit
KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC
KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,856,822 to it, the largest being PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ($547,659). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $835k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Kids Building Character Inc does
Mission
The mission of kids building characater, inc. Is to positively impact the lives of central florida youth by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values, and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We were formed in 2009 and went live in 2012 thus we are celebrating 10 years of serving youth in central florida. We are a youth development and youth mentorship nonprofit whose focus is to help kids/teens become better kids/teens and ultimately productive members and leaders in our society. A more polished purpose is to positively impact the lives of central florida youth by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf. We utilize nine core values that are inherent to the game of golf: courtesy, responsibility, judgement, respect, sportsmanship, confidence, honesty, integrity and perseverance. We incorporate nine healthy habits in our curriculum: energy, play, safety, vision, mind, family, friends, school and community. We connect with youth 4 ways: golf course program(15 golf facilities), school program(135 elementary and k-8 schools), community center program(35 community centers) and our girls golf program(13 clinics/events). We support youth in lake , orange, osceola and seminole counties. In 2021 we connected with over 100,000 kids/teens. Our golf course program saw 688 kids/teens of…
$342,730 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $342,730.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+36%).
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.
62% of KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Brian Boone
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $259k → $403k.
8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
89% 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 KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 55% · 2019 42% · 2020 61% · 2021 48% · 2022 48% · 2023 36% — 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
47% of KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
93% of KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $291k 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
KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER 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 KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC?
- KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,856,822 to it, the largest being PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ($547,659). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,856,822 in grants to KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC?
- PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $547,659 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDS BUILDING CHARACTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 34 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