[3] Donations to Kars4Kids benefit Oorah, a national nonprofit organization whose stated mission is "to give Jewish children and their families opportunities to become active and productive members of their communities".

[14] The organization has hosted coat and clothing giveaways for the needy, including in Harlem, New York, Washington, D.C., and in Newark, New Jersey, where they held a give-away together with then-Newark Mayor Cory Booker.

[17] Around that same time period with New York City Councilman James Vacca, they distributed free backpacks in the Bronx as part of a "back-to-school initiative aimed at helping struggling families with the rising expenses of school supplies.

[20][21] After being contacted by the New York Police Department, the charity auctioned off a 2003 Ford Explorer in which two children drowned after being swept from their mother's arms during Hurricane Sandy.

[22] Kars 4 Kids worked with United States Representative Michael Grimm to distribute over 1,000 children's coats and other assorted clothing items to Staten Island residents affected by the hurricane.

[23] In 2014, Kars4Kids released an app for Android, Kars4Kids Safety,[24] which aims to prevent accidental deaths of children left in hot cars, by providing reminders to their parents.

[29] The jingle has been referenced and parodied by multiple television series; in a December 2014 Saturday Night Live sketch satirizing talk show Charlie Rose and the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture, James Elmer Mitchell and Bruce Jessen (Bobby Moynihan and Kyle Mooney) told Rose (Taran Killam) that the Kars4Kids jingle was one of the CIA's other torture methods, alongside Time Warner Cable customer service and airport security screenings.

"[37] A 2018 episode of Last Week Tonight presented a song promoting China's Belt and Road Initiative performed by children, which host John Oliver likened to a "Kommunist Kars4Kids".

In Oregon, the attorney general added that Kars4Kids failed to disclose that its offer of a "free vacation" for vehicle donors was designed to recruit people to attend timeshare presentations.