California · Nonprofit
KINDNESS INITIATIVE
KINDNESS INITIATIVE (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,818,575 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ($1,180,677). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Kindness Initiative does
Mission
To alleviate poverty in the san diego jewish community by meeting basic physical and psychological needs of vulnerable jewish households, through customized case management and personal and household goods distribution.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Member services:provide a full array of service needs to those who cannot afford or unable to access a full range of basic needs, and assist in developing personal dignity and confidence to attain self-sufficiency. In 2025, assisted over 100 families in navigating and accessing a full range of services through service provider organizations and monitoring another 250+ former members with occasional needs, including housing, transportation, nutrition, health and wellness, financial aid, legal and other professional services, employment, and many other specific household needs.
$634,670 spentof which $109,254 as grants86% of program spendingKindnessg'mach - a goods donation and distribution program at no cost to recipients:kindnessg'mach is a distribution center, open five days a week where jewish families find clothing, household essentials, toiletries, and so much more - all cost free. Extensive volunteer support assists in a place of belonging and support. It is estimated that in 2025 over 4,000 donations are received a year and about 4,000 "shoppers" receive goods a year. In addition, there is an online furniture exchange program and a design and home furnishing service at no cost, over 100 apartments were furnished during the year and hundreds of pieces of furniture exchanged.
$99,771 spent14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $734,441.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $808k to $1.5M (+80%).
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.
98% of KINDNESS INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Selwyn Isakow
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $1k → $381k.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 INITIATIVE’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 INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 KINDNESS INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 75% · 2023 58% — 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.
Where its funders are
77% of KINDNESS INITIATIVE'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 $416k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
KINDNESS INITIATIVE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KINDNESS INITIATIVE
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KINDNESS INITIATIVE: 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 KINDNESS INITIATIVE?
- KINDNESS INITIATIVE (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,818,575 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ($1,180,677). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KINDNESS INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,818,575 in grants to KINDNESS INITIATIVE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KINDNESS INITIATIVE?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO is the largest funder on record, with $1,180,677 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KINDNESS INITIATIVE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 20 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