California · Nonprofit
PREPARE KIDS FOR LIFE
PREPARE KIDS FOR LIFE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,000 to it, the largest being WALTER AND KARLA GOLDSCHMIDT FOUNDATION ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PREPARE KIDS FOR LIFE's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,403 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- Sherwood Country Club Charitable Foundationlocal
- Go Campaignportfolio match
- Anderson Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
100% of PREPARE KIDS FOR LIFE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $62k → $63k.
From the IRS filings of PREPARE KIDS FOR LIFE’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
PREPARE KIDS FOR LIFE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 81% · 2022 83% · 2023 79% — broadly stable.
“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
PREPARE KIDS FOR LIFE draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Sherwood Country Club Charitable FoundationlocalCA · funds 52 organizations near you
- Go Campaignportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anderson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- OK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Retailroi Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yeatman Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kalele Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Moser Foundation USA Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Comis Foundation 2423-00-48portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Water Buffalo Club Inc Dba We Benefit Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- All Ways Up Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brill Dassa Family Foundationportfolio 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 PREPARE KIDS FOR LIFE
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.
Public support
44%
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 PREPARE KIDS FOR LIFE: 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 PREPARE KIDS FOR LIFE?
- PREPARE KIDS FOR LIFE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,000 to it, the largest being WALTER AND KARLA GOLDSCHMIDT FOUNDATION ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PREPARE KIDS FOR LIFE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $285,000 in grants to PREPARE KIDS FOR LIFE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PREPARE KIDS FOR LIFE?
- WALTER AND KARLA GOLDSCHMIDT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PREPARE KIDS FOR LIFE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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