The Kindness Fund

Analysis

The Kindness Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Costa Mesa, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, The Kindness Fund reported income of $163k and spending of $134k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $428k to $163k (-62%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 137% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Kindness Fund sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 51st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lsa Building Foundation ($163k), Laton Lions Club of Laton California Foundation ($163k) and Lifespire Foundation Inc ($163k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $277k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $277k.