California · Public charity
Foster Care Counts
FOSTER CARE COUNTS mission is to improve the lives of youth in foster care and ensure they thrive. We partner with care and advocacy organizations to address the gaps in service and impediments to success and target ways to boost outcomes. Together, we ignite initiatives to empower foster youth, improve access to valuable resources, and…
- $319k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2024
- $311k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $300,845
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,845
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Foster Care Counts funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 2 | $311k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $698k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $85k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $173k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $219k | 29% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $260k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foster Nation | $960,205 | 3 | 67% |
| iFoster Inc | $338,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Los Angeles County Registrar-Recordercounty Clerk | $66,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Los Angeles Southwest College | $45,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Rightway Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Make Good Inc | $36,000 | 2 | 8% |
| California State University Los Angeles Auxiliary Services Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| California State University Dominguez Hills Philanthropic Foundation | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Shelter Partnership Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Los Angeles City College Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Foster Care Counts supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Foundation for California Community Colleges · Weingart Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · John Burton Advocates for Youth · Shelter Partnership Inc · Ecmc Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
How this is measured
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About Foster Care Counts
- How much does Foster Care Counts give?
- Foster Care Counts reported 2 itemized grants totaling $310,845, out of $318,570 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Foster Care Counts fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (77%), Education (12%), Youth Development (5%).
- Who are Foster Care Counts's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Foster Nation ($960k), iFoster Inc ($338k), Los Angeles County Registrar-Recordercounty Clerk ($66k).
- Does Foster Care Counts fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Foster Care Counts?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, Foundation for California Community Colleges.
- Where is Foster Care Counts based?
- Foster Care Counts is based in CA.
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