Washington · Nonprofit
The Growing Kindness Project
The Growing Kindness Project (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $80 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($80). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $80
- Net assets
- $36k
What The Growing Kindness Project does
Mission
Our mission is to empower, educate, and encourage individuals to cultivate kindness and connection in their communities by growing and giving flowers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Ambassador Program:Supported 43 Alumni Ambassadors across the U.S. and Canada who grew and shared flowers in their communities and helped promote acts of kindness and the Growing Kindness mission. Provided 13 scholarships and distributed 43 Ambassador Kits with growing resources and outreach materials.
$6,426 spent22% of program spendingGive a Garden Campaign:Supplied 50 under-resourced participants with garden and giving kits that enabled them to grow and share flowers in kindness in communities across the US.
$918 spent3% of program spendingHoliday Cheer Campaign: Supported 725 participants globally with digital resources, tutorials, and printable materials to create and give evergreen arrangements to isolated and underserved community members. Supported 4 community schools with supplies, resources and support to equip 160 students to make and give 790 evergreen arrangements to community foodbanks and shelters.
$1,561 spent5% of program spendingGrowing Kindness Retreat: A two-day educational and community-building event for team members and ambassadors. The retreat included farm tours, hands-on floral workshops, and sessions on leadership, giving, and connection.Supported 24 attendees, including 4 scholarship recipients who received full or partial financial assistance to attend. The retreat advanced the organizations mission by strengthening leadership skills, fostering community among volunteers, and equipping participants to share the Growing Kindness mission more effectively in their local communities.
$1,836 spent6% of program spendingThe Growing Kindness Greenhouse: Provided online education, coaching, and community support to 128 participants through this online learning and connection platform and online community.
$8,584 spent30% of program spendingGrowing Kindness Kids Event: Hosted our first kids event, teaching children (ages 311) to plant their own flower gardens and create floral arrangements to give as acts of kindness, nurturing empathy and community awareness.
$92 spent0% of program spendingCommunity Giving Event: Partnered with volunteers to make and deliver 100 bouquets for local veterans and long term care residents
$230 spent1% of program spendingCommunications and Outreach: Sent weekly Words on Kindness emails to 5,635 subscribers to inspire acts of kindness and community connection. Created and shared uplifting social media content reaching 21,400 followers and a total of 740,000 accounts, encouraging kindness and generosity worldwide.
$8,976 spent31% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,623.
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 $60k to $31k (−48%).
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.
77% of The Growing Kindness Project’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 The Growing Kindness Project’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.
Where its funders are
100% of The Growing Kindness Project'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
The Growing Kindness Project runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,230 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,230 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Growing Kindness Project?
- The Growing Kindness Project (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $80 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($80). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Growing Kindness Project have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $80 in grants to The Growing Kindness Project.
- Who is the largest funder of The Growing Kindness Project?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Growing Kindness Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 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