Program areas at A Better Place for Kids
Organized the first major public 5K run and walk done by kid volunteers in San Diego (March 2018) with over 10,000 participants. We partnered with Interfaith Community Centers for this event, and supplies collected from this event helped feed the homeless, provide shelter, provide mentoring opportunities for the high risk youth, self-sufficiency and employment programs, temporary and permanent housing programs. Created over 19,000 hygiene kits through various events we hosted, these hygiene kits distributed to homeless and low income families across San Diego County. Hosted and supported events that targeted to help the victims of various disasters including Hurricane Florence (Sept 2018), Hurricane Michael (October 2018), California Wildfires (August 2018). In these events we made around 9,500 care packages for disaster victims that were then distributed in the disaster areas.
Assembled over 5,000 brown bag lunches to be distributed to local homeless shelters Adopted over 100 low-income families to help with their basic needs Adopted over 150 low-income high school kids for their school expenses. Prepared and served food in homeless shelters on more than 20 occasions to thousands of less fortunate. Built more than 1,200 stockings (Stuff-a-Stocking Event) to be gifted in the holiday season to low-income and homeless families Organized event (Operation Back2School) to prepare more than 500 school bags full of school supplies that were donated to homeless students in the San Diego County Organized beach cleaning events in San Diego where we collected more than 150 pounds of trash
Personnel at A Better Place for Kids
Name | Title | Compensation | Date of data |
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Dawna Thompson | President | | 2023-12-31 |
Arda Aslan | Vice President | $0 | 2018-12-31 |
Karina Maxey | Secretary | $0 | 2018-12-31 |
Financials for A Better Place for Kids
Revenues | FYE 12/2020 |
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Total grants, contributions, etc. | $827 |
Program services | $0 |
Investment income and dividends | $0 |
Tax-exempt bond proceeds | |
Royalty revenue | |
Net rental income | |
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets | $0 |
Net income from fundraising events | |
Net income from gaming activities | |
Net income from sales of inventory | $0 |
Miscellaneous revenues | |
Total revenues | $1,737 |
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Data update history
February 2, 2022
Updated personnel
Identified 1 new personnel
February 1, 2022
Posted financials
Added Form 990N for fiscal year 2021
August 21, 2021
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2018
April 27, 2021
Posted financials
Added Form 990N for fiscal year 2019
October 21, 2020
Used new vendors
Identified 1 new vendor, including
Nonprofit Types
Youth development programsYouth service charitiesCharities
Issues
Human servicesChildrenHomelessness
Characteristics
Partially liquidatedCommunity engagement / volunteeringTax deductible donationse-Postcard filer
General information
- Address
- 10121 Carroll Canyon Rd
- San Diego, CA 92131
- Metro area
- San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA
- County
- San Diego County, CA
- Website URL
- kids4.org/
- Phone
- (619) 867-5575
IRS details
- EIN
- 81-4527911
- Fiscal year end
- December
- Taxreturn type
- Form 990-N / Postcard
- Year formed
- 2017
- Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
- Yes
Categorization
- NTEE code, primary
- O50: Youth Development Programs, Other
- NAICS code, primary
- 624110: Child and Youth Services
- Parent/child status
- Independent
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