California · Nonprofit
KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC
KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC (California) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,946,631 to it, the largest being STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ($3,080,000). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 118
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Kidsave International Inc does
Mission
Kidsave's mission is to create change so older, forgotten children in foster care and orphanages grow up in families or connected to caring adults. We fulfill our mission by: (a) building connections between older orphans/foster youth and interested adults who are prospective mentors and/or adoptive families; (b) creating visibility for older youth who are ready and open to a permanent connection; and (c) training adults to be caring mentors and preparing them for the adoption process.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
International permanency programs ukrainekidsave began working in ukraine in 2016 as part as part of national child welfare reform efforts. Kidsave is also a founding member of the ukraine national mentoring association, which was established in 2018 to implement kidsave's programs in ukraine. Despite the ongoing war, kidsave continue to operate two core kidsave initiatives operate in ukraine in 2024: kidsave's pathway to success program - a corporate and individual mentoring and career-readiness program for older youth aging out of care; and kidsave's family visit program - helping place older orphaned and abandoned children from institutions to family care. In december 2022 kidsave opened a representative office in ukraine as a subdivision of kidsave international. The office is located at the kidsave miracles center in the carpathian mountains in western ukraine. Program implementation is carried out by the ukraine national mentoring association (andm), a ukrainian ngo co-founded by kidsave in 2018. Kidsave provides staff, training, financial resources, and oversight to support andm in delivering its core family placement and mentoring programs. Two hundred seventy-nine (279)…
$1,013,688 spentof which $97,456 as grants22% of program spendingWeekend miracleskidsave's weekend miracles program helps older kids and teens in foster care (ages 9-18) find host families, permanent families, and enduring mentors. These children have often spent years in the child welfare system, with little realistic hope of adoption or stable adult connection. Weekend miracles provides these youth with opportunities to meet people who might be willing to host, mentor, or adopt them. At the core of the weekend miracles program are monthly interactive events, which are designed to make it easy and fun for older children and teens in foster care to meet new people. This approach increases engagement, builds self-confidence and self-esteem, and gives youth agency in their permanency journey. Once interested families and kids meet and get to know each other at kidsave's monthly connection events, relationships develop naturally. Youth who are interested in adoption are matched with host families who either hope to adopt, or work with kidsave to find families in the community who are interested in adopting an older child. Youth who are not interested in adoption are matched with a caring host mentor who provides support and guidance. In some…
$1,433,639 spent31% of program spendingSummer and winter miracleskidsave's summer miracles program brings older children (ages 9-15) from colombia-who are unlikely to be adopted in their home country-to the united states for family hosting visits. These children typically reside in institutional or foster care and have no prospects of reunification with biological family members. The program provides these children with a rich cultural experience and a unique opportunity to connect with families who are interested in adoption. During their visit, children stay with american host families who advocate for them by engaging their communities and personal networks to help identify prospective adoptive families. While the children enjoy recreational and bonding activities, the primary goal is to find each child a permanent, loving family. In 2024 kidsave facilitated both summer and winter miracles programs, bringing a total of 38 children from colombia to the u.s. Of the 38 children who traveled, 36 were found to be ready for adoption. Of the 36 children who were open to adoption, 34 children (94%) have been adopted or have a family pursuing their adoption. Since the program's launch in 1999, two thousand one hundred…
$470,914 spentof which $24,000 as grants10% of program spendingThe embrace projectkidsave launched the embrace project in 2022 to address the overrepresentation of black children in the foster care system in the united states. To better understand and begin to address this overrepresentation, kidsave collaborated with the gallup center on black voices on a survey. Our report, americans' views of u.s. Foster care: elevating black americans' perspectives & experiences, published in 2023, identified the top perceived barriers that keep adults from mentoring, fostering, or adopting children from foster care. With this data, kidsave launched a communications campaign to raise awareness regarding the overrepresentation of black children in the foster care system, the truth behind common misconceptions about mentoring, fostering, and adopting kids in the foster care system, and the availability of programs and resources that make these activities accessible. In 2024 we published supplementary reports to the original kidsave-gallup study. We also published secondary analysis reports from the 2023 kidsave-gallup study focused on survey responses from adults in california and texas, the lgbt community, and the hispanic/latinx community. While the…
$1,723,440 spent37% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,641,681.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.8M to $4.6M (+63%).
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 5% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 16% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% 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
Randi Thompson
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $138k → $2.7M.
20 of 118 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 118 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
KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
58% 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 KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 14% · 2019 23% · 2020 20% · 2021 55% · 2022 31% · 2023 30% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 22 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 13 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
KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC?
- KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC (California) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,946,631 to it, the largest being STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ($3,080,000). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 118 organizations giving $10,946,631 in grants to KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC, 58 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC?
- STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,080,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC 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.
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 118 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