Minnesota · Nonprofit
KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION
KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,187,637 to it, the largest being BURGER KING FOUNDATION INC ($2,777,470). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $68M
- Funders on record
- 103
- Grants received
- $8.2M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Kids in Need Foundation does
Mission
We believe every child in america should have equal opportunity and resources to engage in a quality education. By partnering with teachers and students in under-resourced schools, we provide the support needed to create equitable learning spaces for all students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
National network of resource centers (including twin cities resource center) the foundation partners with over 40 resource centers across the country to help distribute much-needed school supplies to students who would otherwise go without. These organizations focus on schools with high percentages of students enrolled in the federal free and reduced lunch program. The resource centers are independently operated by nonprofit organizations that meet the foundation's requirements.
$44,053,007 spent$59,838,352 earned by the program88% of program spendingSupply a teacher focuses on core mission of providing essential school supplies to the classrooms of children most in need. Successful applicants receive two large boxes containing a predetermined assortment of core items with a retail value of approximately $500.
$3,110,513 spent$4,225,103 earned by the program6% of program spendingSupply a student the foundation seeks sponsors to provide school supplies to children in need. Under this program, the foundation provides backpacks containing school supplies for children in needs. These school supplies are shipped to various schools and approved charities.
$2,916,163 spent$3,961,112 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $50,079,683.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $56M to $19M (−65%).
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 IN NEED FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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.
Chief executive
Corey Gordon
CEO
Board chair
Peter Fahrenkopf
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $11k → $1.1M.
19 of 103 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 IN NEED FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 103 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 IN NEED FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 IN NEED FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 76% · 2019 31% · 2020 47% · 2021 31% · 2022 25% · 2023 26% — 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
45% of KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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 IN NEED FOUNDATION draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 IN NEED FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like KIDS IN NEED 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 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
44%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIDS IN NEED 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 IN NEED FOUNDATION?
- KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,187,637 to it, the largest being BURGER KING FOUNDATION INC ($2,777,470). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 103 organizations giving $8,187,637 in grants to KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION?
- BURGER KING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,777,470 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION 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.
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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 2018–2025), and the filings of 103 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing