New York · Nonprofit
KIDSPIRIT INC
KIDSPIRIT INC (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $505,177 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($150,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $441k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $505k
- Net assets
- $324k
What Kidspirit Inc does
Mission
Kidspirit is a nonprofit online magazine and community by and for youth to engage each other about life's big questions in an open and inclusive spirit. Its mission is to promote mutual understanding among 11-to-17- year-olds of diverse backgrounds and support their development into world citizens with strong inner grounding. Since 2007, kidspirit's unique process has empowered teens through creative expression and youth-led collaboration to raise their voices about questions that go to the heart of life. The organization is led by an all- youth network of editors around the world who edit submissions collaboratively, decide on the magazine's quarterly themes, set the editorial agenda, and discuss ethical, philosophical, and spiritual topics. Ad-free and unaffiliated, kidspirit provides a critical outlet for teenagers everywhere to discover and highlight the essential humanity transcending divergent points of view. Kidspirit aims to build a truly inclusive and welcoming conversation th
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Kidspirit flourished in 2025, and is now led by a network of over 200 youth editors in 17 countries. In addition to the home editorial board in new york city, the organization has also established boards around the united states and in india, spain, liberia, china, ghana, taiwan, pakistan, paraguay, singapore, uruguay, ukraine, the united kingdom, jordan, south africa, south korea, and australia. Through their writing, art, video, and conversations, youth substantively engaged with the 2025 themes: state of mind, joy & laughter, ripple effects, and dialogue between generations. This year's array of online writing, editing, and dialogue workshops provided youth around the world opportunities for connection and skill- building. In november, almost 30 young people from across the united states and four other countries gathered in person in new york city for the annual global summit and awards. Together they engaged in meaningful conversation about their cultural and personal perspectives. They also celebrated the winners of the kidspirit awards, which were selected by peer editors around the world. The recognized articles, poetry, and artwork were published in a print anthology, the…
$257,875 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $257,875.
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 2024 to 2025, from $130k to $333k (+156%).
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 9% · 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
109% of KIDSPIRIT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Elizabeth Dabney Hochman
Exec. Dir. &
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $5k → $51k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 KIDSPIRIT INC’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
KIDSPIRIT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
70% 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 KIDSPIRIT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 65% · 2019 32% · 2020 46% · 2021 78% · 2022 72% · 2023 29% — 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
26% of KIDSPIRIT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
69% of KIDSPIRIT INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $159k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $346k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
KIDSPIRIT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KIDSPIRIT 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 KIDSPIRIT 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KIDSPIRIT INC?
- KIDSPIRIT INC (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $505,177 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($150,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KIDSPIRIT INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $505,177 in grants to KIDSPIRIT INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDSPIRIT INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDSPIRIT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 26 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