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Kiwanis Club of Lake Forest Foundation

Kiwanis Club of Lake Forest Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $178 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($178). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$8k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$178
Net assets
$6k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Kiwanis Club of Lake Forest Foundation does

Mission

1) Provide scholarships to high school seniors, and to community college attendees2) Bring the Boys & Girls Club program to the community3) Provide opportunities for furthering the education of the youth of the community,

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Provide college scholarships for El Toro High School and Trabuco High School seniors. Provide additional donations to Kiwanis International Foundation, and Cal-Nev-Ha Kiwanis Foundation.

  2. Provide Funding for Boys & Girls Club - Lake Forest Program

    $3,125 spent
    97% of program spending
  3. Community Service Projects

    $110 spent
    3% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,235.

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 ($11k) Expenses 100 ($10k) Net assets 100 ($16k)2018 Revenue 102 ($12k) Expenses 133 ($13k) Net assets 124 ($19k)2019 Revenue 70 ($8k) Expenses 104 ($10k) Net assets 110 ($17k)2020 Revenue 52 ($6k) Expenses 123 ($12k) Net assets 70 ($11k)2021 Revenue 168 ($19k) Expenses 193 ($19k) Net assets 73 ($11k)2022 Revenue 295 ($34k) Expenses 245 ($24k) Net assets 136 ($21k)2023 Revenue 48 ($5k) Expenses 196 ($19k) Net assets 48 ($7k)2024 Revenue 62 ($7k) Expenses 99 ($10k) Net assets 31 ($5k)2025 Revenue 67 ($8k) Expenses 70 ($7k) Net assets 36 ($6k)
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Revenue (67)Expenses (70)Net assets (36)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 2022 to 2023, from $21k to $7k (−65%).

$16k
$19k
$17k
$11k
$11k
$21k
$7k
$10k
$6k
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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.

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2018
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2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Kiwanis Club of Lake Forest Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’17
−$1k
’18
−$2k
’19
−$6k
’20
$440
’21
$10k
’22
−$14k
’23
−$3k
’24
$864
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $53 → $33.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Kiwanis Club of Lake Forest Foundation’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.

Where its funders are

100% of Kiwanis Club of Lake Forest Foundation'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $178 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

Kiwanis Club of Lake Forest Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education 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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Kiwanis Club of Lake Forest Foundation?
Kiwanis Club of Lake Forest Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $178 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($178). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Kiwanis Club of Lake Forest Foundation have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $178 in grants to Kiwanis Club of Lake Forest Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Kiwanis Club of Lake Forest Foundation?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $178 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Kiwanis Club of Lake Forest Foundation 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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