Florida · Nonprofit
KIDS INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND
KIDS INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,446,379 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE BIG BEND INC ($1,377,248). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Kids Incorporated of the Big Bend does
Mission
Kids incorporated supports and educates families with young children through quality early learning, health and family services so that they can reach their full potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Through the early head start (ehs) program, the organization provides comprehensive services to at-risk children ages birth to 3 years and their families. The services include quality early education in and out of the home; home visits; parent education, including parent-child activities; comprehensive health services; nutrition; ongoing support for parents through case management and peer support groups. The organization operate 4 ehs early learning centers in leon, jefferson and madison counties.
$4,506,335 spent$102,119 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,506,335.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.8M to $3.2M (+75%).
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: 2017 89% · 2018 89% · 2020 89% · 2021 93% · 2022 90% · 2023 86% · 2024 96% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of KIDS INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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
Lafonda Heidel
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $215k → $101k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND’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 INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 93% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 90% · 2022 100% · 2023 79% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of KIDS INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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 INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding KIDS INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $41.2M on record — $41.0M federal, $210k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$41.0M
- FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $210k
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $16
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like KIDS INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIDS INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND: 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 INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND?
- KIDS INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,446,379 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE BIG BEND INC ($1,377,248). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIDS INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,446,379 in grants to KIDS INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDS INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND?
- UNITED WAY OF THE BIG BEND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,377,248 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDS INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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