California · Nonprofit
KONTAGIOUS
KONTAGIOUS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,939 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($81,973). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $216k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $250k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Kontagious does
Mission
We believe that intentional kindness, becomes the hope and light needed to open our communities towards the needs of families relocating across the globe.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kontagious primary mission statement: we believe that intentional kindness, becomes the hope and light needed to open our communities towards the needs of families relocating across the globe. Kontagious uses unconventional and entrepreneurial approaches to encourage the immigrants to assimilate into the multicultural mosaic of lives found in our communities. We strive to impact those around us, with love and simple acts of kindness, to lead our communities to new waves of inclusion.
$166,571 spent100% of program spendingKindness initiatives: we were providing airport pickups, welcome dinners and cultural training for the international students arriving for graduates' studies from south east asia. We continue to create a fun environment to understand local culture and build network relationships with the local community outreach initiatives: we offer cross-cultural mentoring and leadership development opportunities through a series of seminars designed to bridge the gap between college experiences and professional careers in the usa. Our comprehensive personal and professional development programs include networking events, resume writing workshops, & managerial skills training, tailored to the specific needs of our graduate student participants.
Kommunity: to foster strong communities, we organize events that bring together local business leaders, host families, and international students. These gatherings include dinner nights, game nights, camping trips, leadership development bootcamps, holiday celebrations, musical evenings, and other fun outdoor activities. These activities are designed to foster a sense of community and belonging, where strangers can form lasting friendships and become like family within the Kontagious community
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $166,571.
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.
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 $18k to $72k (+298%).
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.
92% of KONTAGIOUS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $5k → $45k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 KONTAGIOUS’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
KONTAGIOUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 KONTAGIOUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 48% · 2022 87% · 2023 33% — 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of KONTAGIOUS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 78% 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
80% of KONTAGIOUS'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 $49k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
KONTAGIOUS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KONTAGIOUS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 KONTAGIOUS: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds KONTAGIOUS?
- KONTAGIOUS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,939 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($81,973). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KONTAGIOUS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $249,939 in grants to KONTAGIOUS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KONTAGIOUS?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $81,973 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KONTAGIOUS 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.
Play a game about who funds Kontagious →
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 9 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