Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
KIND INC
KIND INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 378 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,589,952 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($9,678,946). 195 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $79M
- Funders on record
- 378
- Grants received
- $50M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Kind Inc does
Mission
To assist and protect unaccompanied children who are parties to judicial or regulatory proceedings arising from the immigration laws of the u.s., whether in the context of removal proceedings or applications from asylum or otherwise, by providing pro bono legal representation and by other means, to examine practices by which children's rights and interests can be best protected both within the u.s. Immigration process and within the process of repatriating children to their country of origin, to develop educational materials relating to such practices, to operate and maintain related charitable, educational and benevolent programs in furtherance of the aforesaid purposes, either by itself or in partnerships, joint ventures, or consultation arrangements with other entities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Through strategic partnerships, kind provides pro bono legal representation for refugee and migrant children across the u.s. Kind's legal programs team is comprised of legal professionals who, together with our extensive network of partners from law firms and corporations, representing over 7,700 unaccompanied children in 2024. In addition to providing high-quality representation, the team provides holistic, trauma-informed, social services to kind's clients and informs critical legal strategy and impact litigation to protect the rights of unaccompanied migrant and refugee children in the u.s. Latin america, mexico and europe. The compassion and dedication of kind's volunteer attorneys and staff make our work possible, and our collective efforts have changed the lives of thousands of at-risk immigrant children. With our partners, we have helped those children find safety and freedom from violence, abuse, and persecution. Most of kind's clients are fleeing some of the world's most dangerous countries and conditions. In 2024, kind accepted referrals for more than 79,000 unaccompanied children needing representation. We have welcomed over 50,000 attendees to our training and partner…
$55,280,193 spentof which $4,237,262 as grants86% of program spendingKind is working in and outside of the u.s. Toward a world where we share, across borders and continents, an absolute commitment to the protection of children from persecution, trafficking, and other harms. In complement to kind's domestic legal programs and advocacy work, kind's international work enables it to contribute to unaccompanied children's rights, protection, and well-being in their home countries and as they migrate in search of safety. Kind's steadfast commitment to providing legal representation to unaccompanied children everywhere we work, our programming in central america to address the root causes of migration, and our work in mexico and europe to improve the treatment of children on the move and children seeking permanency, deepen our ties to the worldwide community that supports the protection of unaccompanied children. Our work increasing the capacity of government actors and agencies to strengthen child protection systems is vital to our efforts.work in central america/mexico kind works to increase access to protection and rights for migrant children throughout the central america-mexico region. Kind has four regional initiatives that aim to address the root…
$4,637,590 spentof which $681,716 as grants7% of program spendingPublic outreach & education - kind continued its legislative and administration advocacy work to ensure that law, policy, and practice advance the protection of unaccompanied children in the united states. Kind worked throughout 2024 to ensure that all unaccompanied children arriving at the u.s. Border were able to access humanitarian protection through timely but fair immigration proceedings, were expeditiously reunited with family, and had access to services to help them comply with the immigration court system. Kind also worked to gain support for a greater commitment to the safe repatriation and reintegration of children returning to their home countries alone, to educate stakeholders about the root causes of these children's plight and ways to address them, as well as to secure access to counsel and to ensure adequate funding for unaccompanied children's services.
$4,204,435 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $64,122,218.
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 $34M to $51M (+53%).
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 60% · 2018 40% · 2019 50% · 2020 56% · 2021 73% · 2022 65% · 2023 72% · 2024 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of KIND INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% 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.
Board chair
Pamela Passman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 98 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $7.4M.
50 of 378 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 KIND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 378 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
KIND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 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 KIND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 30% · 2019 29% · 2020 19% · 2021 18% · 2022 21% · 2023 17% — 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
29% of KIND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
KIND INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 36 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 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
KIND INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding KIND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $92.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$86.7M
- Department of State$6.0M
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 KIND 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Kind Global LLC · disregarded
- Asociacion Para la Defensa Legal de Los Ninos Migrantes - Kind (Ac) · exempt
- Kids in Need of Defense Europe · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KIND INC?
- KIND INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 378 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,589,952 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($9,678,946). 195 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIND INC have?
- IRS filings report 378 organizations giving $49,589,952 in grants to KIND INC, 195 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIND INC?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $9,678,946 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 378 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