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KINDNESS CONNECTION INC

KINDNESS CONNECTION INC (Kansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,519 to it, the largest being PALMER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($26,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$525
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$30k
Net assets
$73k
4/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Kindness Connection Inc does

Mission

Volunteer program & support for school projects

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Educational improvement projects

    $0 spent
  2. School projects: nutritional program, summer program

    $0 spent
  3. Volunteer program

    $0 spent

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($27k) Expenses 100 ($26k) Net assets 100 ($63k)2018 Revenue 58 ($16k) Expenses 97 ($26k) Net assets 84 ($53k)2019 Revenue 76 ($20k) Expenses 86 ($23k) Net assets 80 ($50k)2020 Revenue 42 ($11k) Expenses 17 ($5k) Net assets 91 ($57k)2021 Revenue 49 ($13k) Expenses 2 ($460) Net assets 111 ($70k)2022 Revenue 41 ($11k) Expenses 8 ($2k) Net assets 125 ($79k)2023 Revenue 9 ($3k) Expenses 40 ($11k) Net assets 112 ($70k)2024 Revenue 13 ($3k) Expenses 2 ($455) Net assets 117 ($73k)2025 Revenue 2 ($525) Expenses 2 ($453) Net assets 117 ($73k)
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Revenue (2)Expenses (2)Net assets (117)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $57k to $70k (+22%).

$63k
$53k
$50k
$57k
$70k
$79k
$70k
$73k
$73k
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Total assets

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

0% of KINDNESS CONNECTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$346
’17
−$10k
’18
−$2k
’19
$7k
’20
$13k
’21
$9k
’22
−$8k
’23
$3k
’24
$72
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $5k → $11.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 KINDNESS CONNECTION 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

KINDNESS CONNECTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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

88%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 97% · 2019 83% · 2020 74% · 2021 79% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

KINDNESS CONNECTION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 3 states in all.

WI
NC
FL

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

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’19
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’21
’22
Kansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Against its field

KINDNESS CONNECTION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−39% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds KINDNESS CONNECTION INC?
KINDNESS CONNECTION INC (Kansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,519 to it, the largest being PALMER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($26,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KINDNESS CONNECTION INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $29,519 in grants to KINDNESS CONNECTION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KINDNESS CONNECTION INC?
PALMER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KINDNESS CONNECTION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 4 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