Oregon · Nonprofit
KIDSPIRE
KIDSPIRE (Oregon) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,115,696 to it, the largest being Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation ($519,178). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $786k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Kidspire does
Mission
Kidspire provides children from underserved communities with access to high quality education. Kidspire's educational programs help to prevent children from dropping out of school by providing programs designed to engage children so that they are interested in learning while gaining self-confidence. Kidspire is helping to prepare youth with career readiness skills so they are excited to face their future and achieve meaningful careers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization voluntarily withdrew their accreditation through the hague convention on intercountry adoption as of january 31, 2025, electing to close their adoption services program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Education initiatives:Kidspire kenya - the organization's project in kenya focuses on providing early childhood education for 200 children who would not otherwise attend school, within communities where schools are not accessible, and education is not a priority. The organization operates two schools in remote parts of laikipia county where children engage in sensory-rich activities, exploration, and interactive technology while learning literacy and numeracy in both english and swahili. (see continuation on schedule o).Kidspire vietnam - the organization's project in vietnam focuses on supporting 1,500 orphans and vulnerable children from substantially underserved and under resourced communities to receive the educational programs they need to gain self-confidence and stay in school. By offering a s.t.e.m. Focused curriculum, Kidspire is supporting participating youth in learning the important 21st century skills they require to be better prepared for professional careers in their young adult lives.Kidspire preschool - the organization's project in the united states focuses on providing a quality early learning initiative designed to help 16 preschool age children in lake oswego…
$587,589 spentof which $9,272 as grants$276,713 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $587,589.
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 $524k to $823k (+57%).
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 8% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of KIDSPIRE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Tad Kincaid
Executive director
Board chair
Will Merkel
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $156k → $122k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 KIDSPIRE’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
KIDSPIRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 KIDSPIRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 49% · 2019 42% · 2020 38% · 2021 75% · 2022 58% · 2023 44% — 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
44% of KIDSPIRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
KIDSPIRE draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $348k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
KIDSPIRE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding KIDSPIRE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $73k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO CONTRACT SVC PROVIDER$73k
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 KIDSPIRE
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 KIDSPIRE: 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 KIDSPIRE?
- KIDSPIRE (Oregon) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,115,696 to it, the largest being Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation ($519,178). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIDSPIRE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,115,696 in grants to KIDSPIRE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDSPIRE?
- Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $519,178 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDSPIRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 12 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