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WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED

WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED (Illinois) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,344,900 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($875,930). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$7.7M
Revenue FY2025
42
Funders on record
$3.3M
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
27/42 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

Against its field

WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED's revenue grew 104% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve3.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 922 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.8M) Expenses 100 ($4.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 171 ($6.5M) Expenses 155 ($6.3M) Net assets 114 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 177 ($6.7M) Expenses 169 ($6.9M) Net assets 95 ($984k)2020 Revenue 196 ($7.4M) Expenses 181 ($7.4M) Net assets 96 ($997k)2021 Revenue 216 ($8.2M) Expenses 192 ($7.8M) Net assets 130 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 217 ($8.2M) Expenses 190 ($7.8M) Net assets 174 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 218 ($8.3M) Expenses 213 ($8.7M) Net assets 132 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 257 ($9.7M) Expenses 212 ($8.7M) Net assets 237 ($2.5M)2025 Revenue 204 ($7.7M) Expenses 192 ($7.9M) Net assets 223 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (204)Expenses (192)Net assets (223)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,026 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$293k
17
$148k
18
$202k
19
$12k
20
$350k
21
$460k
22
$437k
23
$1.1M
24
$141k
25
3.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $292k → $498k.

11 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)71% 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 WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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

WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

72% 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 WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED.

26%
largest funder
53%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 31% · 2019 54% · 2020 30% · 2021 21% · 2022 24% · 2023 34%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

52% of WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

71% of WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED'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. Of the $969k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 15 states.

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CA
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FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 42 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $308k on record.

Federal$308k
grants $308kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Agency for International Development$308k

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 WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED

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 Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 3%Fundraising 6%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED: 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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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 WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED?
WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED (Illinois) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,344,900 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($875,930). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED have?
IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $3,344,900 in grants to WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $875,930 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 42funders 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