Kids & Art Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271415727
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Burlingame, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6508772750
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $716,223
- Expenses
- $482,634
- Assets
- $834,728
- Liabilities
- $4,038
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Debra Braun (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Debra Braun (CEO): $86,000 total reported compensation
- Purvi Shah (Founder and Director): $26,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Kids & art foundation uses the power of the arts and creativity to mitigate stress, anxiety and trauma induced by diagnosis and treatment of pediatric cancer and other critical medical conditions.
What it reported doing in 2025
Amaezying art kits - healing through creativity: our comprehensive artkit projects are available both in hospitals and at home to pediatric patients and families. Crafted by child development specialists and professional artists, these projects blend art with wellness, fostering emotional expression and bonding. By providing projects at no cost, we ensure accessibility for every family. Partnering with 23 care centers nationwide, we engage and support patients collaboration with child life specialists and healthcare providers. For patients at home, our curated artist videos and unique projects spark joy and connection. Artists in residence: dedicated arts professionals work with pediatric cancer patients at two care centers in the bay area each week. The air creates art with small groups of pediatric cancer patients in waiting rooms, starts projects with patients that are going to treatment rooms or doctor appointments, and creates with patients 1-on-1 bedside. Destination workshops: group in-person workshops for pediatric cancer patients and siblings in the san francisco bay area. Led by professional artists, these workshops take place at different centers for creativity. Patients were able to create art at public glass, oracle park, and pixar animation studios.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.5%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 79%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 32.6%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.2%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.5% of revenue deployed · 79% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $381K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $86K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.