New York · Nonprofit
KINDNESSORG INC
KINDNESSORG INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,208,489 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,133,333). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $990k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $436k
What Kindnessorg Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to educate and inspire people to choose kindness. We fulfill this mission by conducting rigorous scientific research through kindlab, our research hub dedicated to advancing the science of kindness. The insights we generate inform the development of evidence-based programs and products designed to help people understand, measure and grow their kindness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Through our research hub kindlab, we continued to advance understanding of kindness and its measurable impact on individuals, communities and organizations. This year's research priorities were moving all research into the final stage, which is publication. We successfully published five academic research papers. At the heart of our work is live kind - our global platform and movement that empowers people to take everyday action toward a kinder world. Through live kind, we have cultivated a network of approximately 500,000 kindmakers: individuals, educators and partners committed to learning about, practicing and amplifying kindness. This year, we launched the kindness quotient (kq), a pioneering tool that enables people to discover how kind they are and identify ways to grow their kindness. Nearly 10,000 people completed the kq, collectively activating thousands of kind acts and providing new behavioral data to inform future research and programming.building from this foundation, learn kind reached 105,000 students across all states and more than 20 countries, delivering social-emotional learning (sel) curriculum that fosters empathy, inclusion, and cooperation in classrooms…
$849,811 spent$1,800 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $849,811.
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 2020 to 2021, from $240k to $1.0M (+335%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of KINDNESSORG INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Jaclyn Lindsey
CEO
Board chair
Debbie Wasserman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $1k → $435k.
8 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 KINDNESSORG 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
KINDNESSORG INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 KINDNESSORG INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 81% · 2021 42% · 2022 79% · 2023 57% — 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
60% of KINDNESSORG INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
87% of KINDNESSORG INC'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 $280k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
KINDNESSORG INC's revenue fell 50% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KINDNESSORG 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 New York
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
81%
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 KINDNESSORG INC: 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 KINDNESSORG INC?
- KINDNESSORG INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,208,489 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,133,333). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KINDNESSORG INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,208,489 in grants to KINDNESSORG INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KINDNESSORG INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,133,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KINDNESSORG INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 13 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