Forma Kids Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 900992912
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2025
- Location
- Walnut Creek, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9259326400
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Private Operating Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $298,323
- Expenses
- $234,466
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Private Operating Foundations
What it reported funding in 2025
The foundation reported 3 grants totaling $111,250. The stated grant purposes included to help paralysis patients by providing payment assistance, to help paralysis patients by improving physiological and neurological functions, and helps unhoused, foster children, seniors and families in need. trains children and young adult to volunteer to help their community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 92% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 99% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filing identifies who received its grants. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 100
- Cost Efficiency: 47
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 94
- Endowment Health: 11
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 47.4%; rating input score 47; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 17 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Fail
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Fail
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 9; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 5.64; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 11th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 11/100.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: 2 of 19 not reported.