Minnesota · Nonprofit
KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH
KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,583 to it, the largest being ORDEAN FOUNDATION ($115,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,089 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,089 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Head of the Lakes United Wayshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Second Harvest Northlandlocalportfolio match
- Kiwanis Foundation of Lake Bluff & Lake Forestportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
100% of KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $23k → $40k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CLOSET OF DULUTH’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
KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 CLOSET OF DULUTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 50% · 2019 30% · 2020 56% · 2021 69% · 2022 38% · 2023 51% — growing more concentrated.
“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
63% of KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
97% of KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Head of the Lakes United Wayshared funderslocalportfolio matchMN · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 35 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest Northlandlocalportfolio matchMN · funds 29 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Kiwanis Foundation of Lake Bluff & Lake Forestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Primum Bonum Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lindberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harvest Ball Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wildey Mitchell Family Foundationshared funderslocalMN · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · funds 24 organizations near you
- Duluth 1200 Fund InclocalMN · funds 112 organizations near you
- Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundationshared funderslocalMN · backs 120 organizations that share your funders · funds 140 organizations near you
- United Way of 1000 Lakesshared fundersMN · backs 15 organizations that share your funders
- United Way of Ne Minnesotashared funderslocalMN · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · funds 29 organizations near you
- Miller-Dwan Foundation and Subsidiariesshared funderslocalMN · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · funds 24 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH?
- KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,583 to it, the largest being ORDEAN FOUNDATION ($115,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $297,583 in grants to KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH?
- ORDEAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing