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KTs Kids

KTs Kids (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,754 to it, the largest being LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA ($51,249). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$91k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$106k
Net assets
$134k
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%
01What it does

What KTs Kids does

Mission

Recreation opportunities for children and youth with physical disabilities

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. April 2025- Adaptive rock climbing event at Movement Gym-Lincoln Park, 43 children in attendance

    $7,500 spent
    24% of program spending
  2. Weeklong summer camp for approximately 45 kids

    $9,500 spent
    31% of program spending
  3. Food card distribution - approximately 100 families got cards

    $6,500 spent
    21% of program spending
  4. October 2025 Fall Fest at Lincoln Park Zoo- 44 children in attendance, Halloween themed activities and zoo

    $7,500 spent
    24% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,000.

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 ($143k) Expenses 100 ($79k) Net assets 100 ($255k)2022 Revenue 56 ($80k) Expenses 112 ($88k) Net assets 97 ($247k)2023 Revenue 119 ($171k) Expenses 207 ($163k) Net assets 100 ($254k)2024 Revenue 97 ($139k) Expenses 250 ($197k) Net assets 77 ($196k)2025 Revenue 63 ($91k) Expenses 194 ($153k) Net assets 52 ($134k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (63)Expenses (194)Net assets (52)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $196k to $134k (−32%).

$255k
$247k
$254k
$196k
$134k
20212022202320242025
Total assets

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

94% of KTs Kids’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$64k
’21
−$8k
’22
$7k
’23
−$58k
’24
−$62k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $500 → $17k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 KTs Kids’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

KTs Kids leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

55% 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 KTs Kids.

48%
largest funder
92%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 79% · 2021 98% · 2022 83% · 2023 60% — 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

50% of KTs Kids's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

KTs Kids draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states in all.

IL
NY
MA
IA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KTs Kids's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−69% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like KTs Kids

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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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds KTs Kids?
KTs Kids (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,754 to it, the largest being LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA ($51,249). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KTs Kids have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $105,754 in grants to KTs Kids, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KTs Kids?
LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA is the largest funder on record, with $51,249 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KTs Kids find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 8 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