New York · Nonprofit
SAFE TODDLES
SAFE TODDLES (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $819,659 to it, the largest being LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC ($340,544). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $258k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $820k
- Net assets
- $86k
What Safe Toddles does
Mission
Organization provides blind toddlers with a solution for walking independently with safety using pediatric belt canes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Manufacturing pediatric belt canes: we combine the raw materials to create the original wearable white cane assistive safety devices. We provide pediatric belt canes fully funded, at a subsidized rate for families and professionals to use with blind toddlers.
$128,279 spentof which $52 as grants$46,356 earned by the program65% of program spendingOutreach and education: we provide one-one-one support to users, medical and educational professionals, provide group training, webinars, conference presentations, multimedia demonstrations, professional curriculum and school-wide demonstration projects.
$38,766 spentof which $52 as grants20% of program spendingResearch and development: we conduct research activities on pediatric belt cane outcomes, design, and manufacturing methods.
$31,297 spentof which $51 as grants16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $198,342.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $215k to $124k (−42%).
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: 2021 33% · 2022 35% · 2023 45% · 2024 11% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of SAFE TODDLES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% 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.
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.
Board chair
Maron Bikson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $31k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 SAFE TODDLES’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
SAFE TODDLES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 SAFE TODDLES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
57% of SAFE TODDLES's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k 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.
Against its field
SAFE TODDLES's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SAFE TODDLES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $151k on record — $150k federal, $1k state.
- Department of Education$150k
- GRANT IN AID$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SAFE TODDLES
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
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 SAFE TODDLES: 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 SAFE TODDLES?
- SAFE TODDLES (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $819,659 to it, the largest being LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC ($340,544). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAFE TODDLES have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $819,659 in grants to SAFE TODDLES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAFE TODDLES?
- LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC is the largest funder on record, with $340,544 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAFE TODDLES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 11 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