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Kits Cubed Inc

Kits Cubed Inc (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,707 to it, the largest being GOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($65,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$88k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$145k
Net assets
$72k
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Kits Cubed Inc does

Mission

To engage and ignite every childs scientific imagination.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. In 2025, the organization expanded its programming by offering a new after school program focused on renewable energy, launching a field trip initiative to bring hundreds of elementary school students to local science institutions, continuing its internship program for local high school students to gain work experience, and hosting its 5th Annual Kits Cubed STEM Fair.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($232k) Expenses 100 ($135k) Net assets 100 ($121k)2022 Revenue 55 ($128k) Expenses 60 ($81k) Net assets 139 ($168k)2023 Revenue 45 ($104k) Expenses 89 ($121k) Net assets 125 ($152k)2024 Revenue 53 ($124k) Expenses 91 ($124k) Net assets 126 ($152k)2025 Revenue 38 ($88k) Expenses 124 ($168k) Net assets 59 ($72k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (38)Expenses (124)Net assets (59)Peer revenue range

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 $152k to $72k (−53%).

$121k
$168k
$152k
$152k
$72k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Kits Cubed Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 837 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$97k
’21
$47k
’22
−$17k
’23
$552
’24
−$80k
’25
11
months of
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.

20212025
Listed55
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $50k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 Kits Cubed 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

Kits Cubed Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

79% 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 Kits Cubed Inc.

45%
largest funder
97%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 96% · 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

79% of Kits Cubed 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 $30k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

NJ
CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k 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

Kits Cubed Inc's revenue fell 62% between 2021 and 2025.

Operating margin−90% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−21% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 498 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

68%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Kits Cubed Inc?
Kits Cubed Inc (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,707 to it, the largest being GOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($65,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Kits Cubed Inc have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $144,707 in grants to Kits Cubed Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Kits Cubed Inc?
GOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Kits Cubed Inc 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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