California · Nonprofit
KIWANIS CLUB OF LOS ALTOS FOUNDATION
KIWANIS CLUB OF LOS ALTOS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,983 to it, the largest being LEO M SHORTINO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
KIWANIS CLUB OF LOS ALTOS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,351 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,351 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundationshared funderslocal
- The Los Altos Rotary Endowment Fund Incportfolio match
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.
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.
94% of KIWANIS CLUB OF LOS ALTOS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $5k → $1k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 LOS ALTOS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 funders by total. 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
KIWANIS CLUB OF LOS ALTOS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 KIWANIS CLUB OF LOS ALTOS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 89% · 2023 98% — 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
80% of KIWANIS CLUB OF LOS ALTOS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 22 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 56 organizations that share your funders · funds 178 organizations near you
- The Los Altos Rotary Endowment Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kiwanis International Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Applied Materials Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 61 organizations that share your funders
- Olympic Club Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Juliana Lee Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hacienda Child Development Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kirkorian Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bohannon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clark Pacific Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cohn Sadie & Louis Char Tuwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like KIWANIS CLUB OF LOS ALTOS FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Kiwanis Club of Los Altos · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIWANIS CLUB OF LOS ALTOS FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF LOS ALTOS FOUNDATION?
- KIWANIS CLUB OF LOS ALTOS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,983 to it, the largest being LEO M SHORTINO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIWANIS CLUB OF LOS ALTOS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $33,983 in grants to KIWANIS CLUB OF LOS ALTOS FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIWANIS CLUB OF LOS ALTOS FOUNDATION?
- LEO M SHORTINO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIWANIS CLUB OF LOS ALTOS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing