California · Nonprofit
UP KINDNESS INC
UP KINDNESS INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $43 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($43). 1 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
- $374k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $43
- Net assets
- $54k
What Up Kindness Inc does
Mission
To build a kind, creative and sustainable future for all species and their respective environments.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Shop Atrium Atrium shop program known as Sacramento.Shop is an economic development program that builds the local creative economy and micro manufacturing community, while reducing and diverting waste from the landfill. Shop program economic driver for the Sacramento creative economy, and a first of its kind as a closed loop circular economy a first of its kind as a closed loop circular economy that provides economic opportunity to 75% women and makers in underserved communities. The program with its mentorship and marketplace, provides opportunity to test zero waste extended producer responsibility systems (EPR), uplifting local creatives to build businesses from their creative talent, harnessing and empowering the creative capital of the community. Creative products and art are sold online at Sacramento.shop and in a retail experience in touristic Old Sacramento alongside an art caf that invites all to shop, learn about sustainability and explore their inner kind creative self.
$226,970 spentof which $42,652 as grants$176,081 earned by the program80% of program spendingCope TV Series Citizens of Planet Earth (C.O.P.E) is a 6 episode TV series scheduled to air on PBS station in 2025. Each episode focuses on a different economic and environmental problem and how Sacramento creatives have innovated mind opening solutions. Production began April 1st, 2022. The project employed over 100 local creatives and businesses, with hands on work experience training with 4K high production media creation tools and sustainable film production education.
$7,105 spentof which $5,000 as grants$4,925 earned by the program2% of program spendingMOBILE ART CAFE The Zero Waste Mobile Art Cafe is a traveling leave no trace solar-powered mobile popup activation providing a sustainable creative outlet with climate-ready and waste-reduction programming in communities using art, science, and games.Intended to accelerate creativity, creative thinking, environmental education,and community vitality for all.
$23,963 spentof which $31,000 as grants$38,696 earned by the program8% of program spendingOther programs art projects
$26,477 spentof which $27,031 as grants$61,053 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $284,515.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $12k to $70k (+496%).
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: 2020 51% · 2021 3% · 2022 25% · 2023 32% · 2024 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of UP KINDNESS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Ahmed Ortiz
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $17 → $21.
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 UP KINDNESS INC’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 UP KINDNESS INC'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. $43 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
UP KINDNESS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like UP KINDNESS INC
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
88% 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 UP KINDNESS INC: 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 UP KINDNESS INC?
- UP KINDNESS INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $43 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($43). 1 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 UP KINDNESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $43 in grants to UP KINDNESS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UP KINDNESS INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $43 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UP KINDNESS INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), 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