Ohio · Nonprofit
KINNECT
KINNECT (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $815,617 to it, the largest being THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($260,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $816k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Kinnect does
Mission
Kinnect is a non-profit organization built on the belief that family is the foundation of stability and belonging. For more than 20 years, we have worked alongside young people, caregivers, agencies and communities to design and deliver programs that value connection over separation. Each of our programs supports our mission to build and strengthen kinship connections and inclusive support networks for families, young people and children with a vision that young people and families have a sense of belonging, the essential resources and relationships to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kinnect to family (ktf) engages in urgent, diligent family search and engagement to identify and connect youth with kin-both biological and chosen-who can provide support and permanency. Through innovative tools and best practices, ktf helps ensure that youth remain connected to the people who know and love them.
$2,219,056 spent$2,214,663 earned by the program14% of program spendingOhiokan is a flexible and responsive kinship and adoption navigator program designed to support children, youth and their families. Building on the premise that families are inherently capable of finding solutions to the circumstances and challenges they face, the ohiokan program will take an inclusive, engaging, and genuine approach to strengthening families and their networks. The youth navigator network (ynn) helps ohio's youth and young adult who have been in care or recently transitioned out of care navigate systems, access resources, and build and expanded network of connections and support. Both ohiokan and ynn are programs of the department of children and youth that are managed by Kinnect.
$12,738,652 spent$12,839,968 earned by the program78% of program spendingYouth centered permanency roundtable (ycprt) is an intervention designed for youth aged 12 and older who have been in care for a year or more, these structured, strengths-based conversations bring together supportive adults-caseworker, family, mentors, and system partners to explore options, remove barriers and build lifelong connections for youth. Ycprt helps to ensure every young person has the support, stability, and belonging they deserve.
$872,451 spent$1,262,500 earned by the program5% of program spendingTraining and other income
$544,166 spent$136,410 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,374,325.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $591k to $1.7M (+181%).
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: 2019 50% · 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of KINNECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Shannon Deinhart
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $200 → $43k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 KINNECT’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
KINNECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 KINNECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 45% · 2019 61% · 2020 59% · 2021 72% · 2022 42% · 2023 70% — 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.
How long its funders stay
27% of KINNECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of KINNECT's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $347k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
KINNECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding KINNECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $936k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $936k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like KINNECT
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 KINNECT: 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 KINNECT?
- KINNECT (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $815,617 to it, the largest being THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($260,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KINNECT have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $815,617 in grants to KINNECT, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KINNECT?
- THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $260,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KINNECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 18 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