California · Nonprofit
KINDFUL RESTORATION
KINDFUL RESTORATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,003,476 to it, the largest being CHOOSING KINDNESS FOUNDATION ($934,342). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $529k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $15k
What Kindful Restoration does
Mission
At Kindful Restoration our goal is to bring hope to every adult in custody by teaching them how to embrace a mindset of kindness towards themselves and others. As they learn pro-social behaviors; their desires, words, thoughts, and actions will change and they will become individuals who lift, serve, and encourage others.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
This 5-part recovery course is designed to help you develop insight into your past and make a successful transition after your release. It focuses on helping you develop insights into the flawed belief system, character traits, and lifestyle addictions that contributed to your being incarcerated. It includes written exercises that explore the impact of traumas you experienced in your life and how to address them. These exercises help you develop insight into how important kindness, empathy, and healing are to your recovery and to adopting a new way of living.
$46,549 spent100% of program spendingThis electronic contraband course examines the criminal thinking that leads to negative decisions, such as the use, possession, and sale of contraband electronics in a correctional setting. Correctional institutions prohibit the use of unauthorized electronics including: cell phones, smart watches, and devices containing banned content. Participants will explore the importance of safety and security within institutional settings and will address their behaviors and beliefs by challenging criminal thinking and attitudes. The electronic contraband course is available by correspondence and can be facilitated by a peer mentor leader. This program is also available in spanish.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $46,549.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $33k to $15k (−54%).
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.
100% of KINDFUL RESTORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of KINDFUL RESTORATION’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
KINDFUL RESTORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 KINDFUL RESTORATION.
“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.
Where its funders are
KINDFUL RESTORATION draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
KINDFUL RESTORATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,546 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,546 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like KINDFUL RESTORATION
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
9% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 KINDFUL RESTORATION: 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 KINDFUL RESTORATION?
- KINDFUL RESTORATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,003,476 to it, the largest being CHOOSING KINDNESS FOUNDATION ($934,342). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KINDFUL RESTORATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,003,476 in grants to KINDFUL RESTORATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KINDFUL RESTORATION?
- CHOOSING KINDNESS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $934,342 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KINDFUL RESTORATION 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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