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KinderMourn Inc

KinderMourn Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,445,381 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($534,003). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
52
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
$1.9M
35/52 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What KinderMourn Inc does

Mission

KinderMourn offers individual counseling, couples counseling, and grief support groups to bereaved families at little to no cost. Clients self-identify what they feel comfortable with paying for individual counseling services, with over half of the organizations clients receiving support free of charge, and all grief support groups provided free of charge. Since 1978, KinderMourn has walked alongside countless families seeking healing after grieving an unthinkable loss. The organization strives to create a safe haven where bereaved families can find refuge and KinderMourn continues to serve as the only grief support organization in the Charlotte area offering these crucial mental health services for grieving children, teens, and parents.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Grieving Children and Teens ProgramProfessionally guided support groups, along with individual and family counseling offer a safe place where kids can share their thoughts, feelings and experiences of the grief journey.

    $426,835 spent$47,745 earned by the program
    51% of program spending
  2. Grieving Parents ProgramProfessionally guided support groups, along with individual and family counseling are offered to parents who have experienced the death of a child. Services are available regardless of the cause of death or age of the child.

    $225,971 spent$24,596 earned by the program
    27% of program spending
  3. Helping the Hurt Outreach ProgramBereavement support to children and teens who cannot access KinderMourn's in-house support services due to economic factors or transportation issues. Grief services, including individual counseling and support groups, are offered in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools and area neighborhood community centers without fees.

    $184,125 spent
    22% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $836,931.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($718k) Expenses 100 ($673k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 118 ($848k) Expenses 103 ($696k) Net assets 113 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 115 ($823k) Expenses 109 ($736k) Net assets 120 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 112 ($807k) Expenses 102 ($688k) Net assets 131 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 103 ($740k) Expenses 102 ($690k) Net assets 136 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 112 ($801k) Expenses 128 ($860k) Net assets 130 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 146 ($1.0M) Expenses 142 ($953k) Net assets 152 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 146 ($1.0M) Expenses 167 ($1.1M) Net assets 149 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 159 ($1.1M) Expenses 166 ($1.1M) Net assets 159 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (159)Expenses (166)Net assets (159)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $1.8M (+12%).

$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.8M
$1.8M
$1.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 15% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$45k
’17
$152k
’18
$87k
’19
$118k
’20
$50k
’21
−$59k
’22
$93k
’23
−$75k
’24
$23k
’25
3.8
months of
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

Jeff Petillo

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed232019181821212020
Joined·+2+5+3+0+4+7+7+0
No longer listed·56401780
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $172k → $346k.

13 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 KinderMourn Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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

KinderMourn Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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

82% 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 KinderMourn Inc.

22%
largest funder
49%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 38% · 2019 40% · 2020 27% · 2021 20% · 2022 22% · 2023 35% — 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

37% of KinderMourn Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

85% of KinderMourn Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

IL
WI
NY
CT
MO
DE
KS
NC
AL
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like KinderMourn 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 18%Fundraising 7%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds KinderMourn Inc?
KinderMourn Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,445,381 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($534,003). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KinderMourn Inc have?
IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $2,445,381 in grants to KinderMourn Inc, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KinderMourn Inc?
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $534,003 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KinderMourn Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 52 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