Green Kids Now
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271439734
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Fremont, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5108941497
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,370
- Expenses
- $23,810
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shanti Balaraman (President)
People named in this filing
- Shanti Balaraman (President)
- Madhavee Buddhikot (Treasurer)
- Vinutha Hosahalli (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Green Kids Now, Inc is a non-profit organization with a mission to help kids take the path of sustainable innovation by utilizing STEM areas, while being responsible and caring towards our planet. We offer transformative education through our Research Program- Emerging Innovator Program, in which students learn to develop solutions to the real world problems. Through our youth leadership, Research Ambassadors Program, we mentor students to take action in their local communities and at school. Kids LEARN, INNOVATE, TAKE ACTION, and SHARE through the various opportunities that we offer.
What it reported doing in 2024
Online 1:1 Tutoring for HS students - We help students with personalized and individualized tutoring, to help them gain better understanding and strong foundational knowledge in the subject areas such as Math and English.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 26
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 17.4%; rating input score 17
- Program expense ratio: 42%; rating input score 42
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 58.5%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 17.4% of revenue deployed · 42% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.