California · Nonprofit
KIDS CURES FOUNDATION
KIDS CURES FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,952 to it, the largest being GOLDEN STATE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $533k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $196k
- Net assets
- $409k
What Kids Cures Foundation does
Mission
Our goal is to provide Health, Wellness and Nutrition for children and their families in our communities
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
Programs and Services include: USDA Cure Hunger Now Food, Patient Services, Comfort Build a Bag, comfort K-9 Clients served: 16,754
$80,457 spentof which $84,767 as grants$529,605 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $80,457.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $520k to $401k (−23%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 13% · 2022 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of KIDS CURES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Shannon Smith
Executive director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $39k → $81k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 CURES FOUNDATION’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 CURES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 CURES FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 61% · 2021 60% · 2022 35% · 2023 62% — broadly stable.
“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
62% of KIDS CURES FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 CURES FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 19,864 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 19,864 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
Organizations like KIDS CURES FOUNDATION
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
99% 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 CURES FOUNDATION: 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 CURES FOUNDATION?
- KIDS CURES FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,952 to it, the largest being GOLDEN STATE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIDS CURES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $195,952 in grants to KIDS CURES FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDS CURES FOUNDATION?
- GOLDEN STATE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDS CURES FOUNDATION 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 FY2022 (financials across 2020–2022), and the filings of 4 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