Kaboom Inc
Bethesda, MD · EIN 52-1970904. Reported 58 grants totalling $1,204,567 to 53 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Kaboom Inc, the IRS classifies it under recreation & sports rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE N320) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 53 distinct organizations, with 11% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $6,308. Half of what it reported fell between $6,002 and $31,000; the smallest was $5,670 and the largest $77,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clean Air Council | Philadelphia, PA | $127,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Strawberry Mansion Community Development Corporation Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $115,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Called to Serve Cdc Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Rail Park | Philadelphia, PA | $108,025 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $103,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| John Bartram Association | Philadelphia, PA | $74,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of Fernhill Park | Philadelphia, PA | $73,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Indochinese American Council | Philadelphia, PA | $67,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $66,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $58,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| El Progreso Library | Uvalde, TX | $22,991 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Scholars Institute Preschool | Sacramento, CA | $13,025 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Green Bay Early Childhood Center | Chicago, IL | $9,929 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alexander Youth Network | Charlotte, NC | $9,472 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bay Area Girls Club | Richmond, CA | $9,280 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regina Coeli Child Development Center | Robert, LA | $8,724 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of South Hampton Roads | Chesapeake, VA | $8,526 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Service Organizations Inc | Arlington, VA | $8,229 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Willkie House Incorporated | Des Moines, IA | $7,186 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Young Scholars Institute Inc | Trenton, NJ | $6,484 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Shumway Leadership Academychandler Usd | Chandler, AZ | $6,432 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| San Antonio Zoological Society Inc | San Antonio, TX | $6,391 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Family Partnership | Minneapolis, MN | $6,360 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Salvation Army | Honolulu, HI | $6,331 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Highland Community School Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $6,285 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Urban Concern Inc | Columbus, OH | $6,271 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Faison Center Inc | Richmond, VA | $6,240 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sara Holbrook Community Center | Burlington, VT | $6,197 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The First Tee of Greater Philadelphia Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $6,194 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Neighborhood Center | Allentown, PA | $6,189 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Armed Services YMCA of the USA | San Diego, CA | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beam | Buffalo, NY | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Blackhawk Primary Center | Park Forest, IL | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Rusk County | Henderson, TX | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Delaware Inc | Wilmington, DE | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota and Desoto Counties Foundation Inc | Sarasota, FL | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of the Emerald Coast Inc | Ft Walton Bch, FL | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boys Clubs of Bakersfield | Bakersfield, CA | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Brooks Elementary School Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Childrens Home of Cincinnati Ohio Inc | Cincinnati, OH | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Global Academy | New Brighton, MN | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hop Brook School | Naugatuck, CT | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Newport Public Schools | New Port, RI | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northern Nevada Math Club Inc | Sparks, NV | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Opportunity Project Schools Inc | Wichita, KS | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pikes Peak Childrens Museum | Colorado Spgs, CO | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | Saint Paul, MN | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Visually Impaired Preschoolers Services of Greater Louisville Inc | Louisville, KY | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Willie Ross School for the Deaf Inc | Longmeadow, MA | $6,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bluebonnet Childrens Center | Hondo, TX | $5,758 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Childhood Language Center Inc | Charleston, WV | $5,670 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lutheran Housing Corp - Brockton | Worcester, MA | $5,670 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Maryland Inc | Baltimore, MD | $5,670 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
5 of 53 (9%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- El Progreso Memorial Library
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What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 of 53 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | $141,449 | $6,002 |
| 2022 | 18 | $145,083 | $6,345 |
| 2023 | 10 | $702,000 | $72,000 |
| 2024 | 8 | $216,035 | $33,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
76% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $6,308 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Kaboom Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 8 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 7200 Wisconsin Ave 400, Bethesda, MD, 20814.
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