Connecticut · Nonprofit
KIDS HELPING KIDS INC
KIDS HELPING KIDS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $405,924 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($84,150). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $352k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $406k
- Net assets
- $159k
What Kids Helping Kids Inc does
Mission
To develop leadership skills and a commitment to social responsibility in children through youth-lead service projects. To empower children to design and execute youth-led service projects that benefit their community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Gift of Giving Program - Kids Helping Kids partners with dozens of local schools and businesses to collect thousands of new and gently used gifts for all ages in order to set up a one day pop-up store for underserved children to come in and shop for their loved ones around the holiday season.The Gift of Giving is a magical event and over 3,500 families have benefited from the project.
$32,968 spent19% of program spendingHandled With Care Boutique - Youth creating a one day pop-up boutique for underserved girls and young women to obtain dresses, makeup, accessories and jewelry. The underserved girls and young women also participate in a professional photoshoot.
$66,540 spent38% of program spendingPumpkin Bread Bake - Youth preparing, marketing, and selling pumpkin bread with proceeds used to fund Kids Helping Kids and the projects created during the year. Over 600 pumpkin bread loaves are given to the homeless during Thanksgiving week.
$15,076 spent9% of program spendingOther Program Services Ambassadors - Kids Helping Kids ongoing development and training for current ambassadors helps to increase their leadership skills, such as public speaking, communicating ideas, problem solving, accountability and confidence to take action. Expenses 20,265 Spark A Project - Those who have an interest in sparking a new project, identify their passion and KHK helps to create a structure to have that idea blossom. KHK aids in the process of pairing the Spark A Project ideas with existing partnerships to empower the local community. Expenses 40,194
$60,459 spentof which $360 as grants35% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $175,043.
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 2017 to 2018, from $148k to $105k (−29%).
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 13% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of KIDS HELPING KIDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $27k → $52k.
5 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 HELPING KIDS INC’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 HELPING KIDS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
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 HELPING KIDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 47% · 2019 40% · 2020 69% · 2021 31% · 2022 28% · 2023 20% — 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
21% of KIDS HELPING KIDS INC'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
KIDS HELPING KIDS INC draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 HELPING KIDS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like KIDS HELPING KIDS 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% 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 HELPING KIDS 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 HELPING KIDS INC?
- KIDS HELPING KIDS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $405,924 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($84,150). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIDS HELPING KIDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $405,924 in grants to KIDS HELPING KIDS INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDS HELPING KIDS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $84,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDS HELPING KIDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 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