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KIWANIS LITERACY CLUB FOUNDATION

KIWANIS LITERACY CLUB FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,297 to it, the largest being DOWNEY KIWANIS FOUNDATION ($1,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$68k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$5k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Kiwanis Literacy Club Foundation does

Mission

Our group of passionate volunteers have been on a mission to share the power of books with children in our communities. We love what we do and continue to work every day to ensure every child can experience the power of books.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. We created our be a book hero program developing even more opportunities to unlock that power for all children. We partner with organizations to get books for you through book boxes and book distributions.

    $63,622 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $63,622.

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 LITERACY CLUB 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.

How concentrated its funding is

KIWANIS LITERACY CLUB FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

100% of KIWANIS LITERACY CLUB FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47 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.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

KIWANIS LITERACY CLUB FOUNDATION receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1k to it.

Operating margin1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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In California

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04Profile & 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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIWANIS LITERACY CLUB 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds KIWANIS LITERACY CLUB FOUNDATION?
KIWANIS LITERACY CLUB FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,297 to it, the largest being DOWNEY KIWANIS FOUNDATION ($1,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KIWANIS LITERACY CLUB FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,297 in grants to KIWANIS LITERACY CLUB FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of KIWANIS LITERACY CLUB FOUNDATION?
DOWNEY KIWANIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KIWANIS LITERACY CLUB 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 2 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