California · Nonprofit
PEACE 4 KIDS
PEACE 4 KIDS (California) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,337,938 to it, the largest being WILLIAM I SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($590,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Peace 4 Kids does
Mission
The mission of Peace4Kids is to create a safe community where youth in foster care thrive and form lasting connections.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Peace4Kids served 200 unduplicated children and young adults from foster care in South Los Angeles. Our age-appropriate programs and services adapted to the real-time needs and dynamics caused by the pandemic. This drove Peace4Kids to increase the frequency of our individual connections with transition-age youth and caregivers, helping them overcome food insecurity and housing instability, navigate public benefits and systems, and access health care and other social services. During the last year, Peace4Kids collaborated with the LA County Departments of Youth Development and Probation to address the unique and unmet mental health needs of youth from foster care. We also advanced our youth-led, curriculum-based training and professional development for educators, health professionals, social workers, and caregivers on clinical approaches that mitigate the effects of adverse childhood experiences for youth from foster care.
$935,753 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $935,753.
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 2021 to 2022, from $891k to $1.5M (+66%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 5% · 2021 12% · 2022 5% · 2023 20% · 2024 40% · 2025 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of PEACE 4 KIDS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Zaid Gayle
Executive Director
Board chair
Cristina Rodrigues
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $157k → $851k.
15 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 PEACE 4 KIDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
PEACE 4 KIDS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
48% 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 PEACE 4 KIDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 50% · 2019 25% · 2020 25% · 2021 36% · 2022 19% · 2023 23% — 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
38% of PEACE 4 KIDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
65% of PEACE 4 KIDS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $952k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
PEACE 4 KIDS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PEACE 4 KIDS
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEACE 4 KIDS: 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 PEACE 4 KIDS?
- PEACE 4 KIDS (California) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,337,938 to it, the largest being WILLIAM I SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($590,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEACE 4 KIDS have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $4,337,938 in grants to PEACE 4 KIDS, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEACE 4 KIDS?
- WILLIAM I SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $590,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEACE 4 KIDS 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 59 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