Kidango
Legal name: Kidango Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942581686
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fremont, CA, United States
- Phone
- 855-757-5437
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,818,300
- Expenses
- $126,870,477
- Assets
- $81,728,203
- Liabilities
- $30,607,501
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Scott Moore (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Scott Moore (CEO): $459,807 total reported compensation
- Nereyra Houle (CFO): $399,471 total reported compensation
- Noelle Payomo (COO): $319,322 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To inspire children, empower families, and build stronger communities. at Kidango is to prepare children for success in school and life. But this mission is not what makes us unique. Many school districts, preschools, and other educational organizations say something similar. What makes Kidango unique is how we work to achieve this mission and how we prove it. Language and Literacy:** Our teachers use the research-based **SEEDS** (Sensitivity, Encouragement, Education, Development, Self-image) **of Learning** language and literacy curriculum to help children learn essential skills proven to be the most successful at promoting reading proficiency. Our teachers receive training and coaching through SEEDS. This helps children explore and learn language.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community Family Services, Inc.: Community Family Services, Inc. (CFS) provides quality child development services for almost 155 children ages 0-12 in 13 family child-care homes in Santa Clara County. In addition to coordinating child-care in home-based settings, our CFS program provides families and staff with the following program services: A child development and education component in which every child has access to and participates in developmentally appropriate learning activities. Family focused programs as the nucleus to encouraging parent leadership and learning. Social services and health services to assist families and children. Professional development opportunities for staff and providers to meet the high standards set by Kidango, Inc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 93% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 97.6%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.8%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 94% of revenue deployed · 97.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $123.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $460K · 21 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.5M reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.