Texas · Nonprofit
KIDS' MEALS INC
KIDS' MEALS INC (Texas) receives grants from 251 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,878,376 to it, the largest being The JE and LE Mabee Foundation Inc ($2,000,000). 148 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
KIDS' MEALS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,286 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,286 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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.
- Cullen Trust For Health Careshared funderslocal
- Elva Johnston Foundationportfolio match
- John S Dunn Foundationshared funders
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.
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.
93% of KIDS' MEALS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 115 funders, grant income rose $297k → $5.6M.
30 of 251 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $364k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kids Meals Support Corp). These are real filings, and they are not money KIDS' MEALS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of KIDS' MEALS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 251 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' MEALS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 7% of grant income, and it takes 13 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 13 funders to its left
32% 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' MEALS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 23% · 2019 15% · 2020 23% · 2021 26% · 2022 23% · 2023 11% — 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
54% of KIDS' MEALS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
89% of KIDS' MEALS INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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.
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 251 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Cullen Trust For Health Careshared funderslocalTX · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 49 organizations near you
- Elva Johnston Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John S Dunn Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
- Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fundshared funderslocalTX · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · funds 72 organizations near you
- Hamill Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
- Wayne Duddlesten Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- The Ellwood Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
- The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- The Susan Vaughan Foundation Incshared fundersTX · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- The Clayton Fund Incshared fundersTX · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
- The Rawley Foundation Xxxxx0008shared fundersIL · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
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' MEALS INC
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Kids' Meals Support Corp · exempt
- The Kmi Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIDS' MEALS 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.
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' MEALS INC?
- KIDS' MEALS INC (Texas) receives grants from 251 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,878,376 to it, the largest being The JE and LE Mabee Foundation Inc ($2,000,000). 148 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIDS' MEALS INC have?
- IRS filings report 251 organizations giving $29,878,376 in grants to KIDS' MEALS INC, 148 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDS' MEALS INC?
- The JE and LE Mabee Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDS' MEALS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 251funders 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