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Foster Family Foundation at a glance

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Foster Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$97k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$82k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$214kArts & Culture$167kPhilanthropy$90kEducation$73kHealth$71kPublic Safety & Disaster$51kEnvironment$30kRecreation & Sports$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
$82,214
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALADO HISTORICAL SOCIETY$82,214
MFCC AUSTIN SAGRADO CORAZON$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BURNET VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $15k → 9%THE SETON FUND OF THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $15k → 10%BURTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT & AUXILIARY: $15k → 14%SALADO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $82k → 14%ROCKPORT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $10k → 17%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $8k → 22%SOUTH TEXAS CHARITY WEEKEND INC: $25k → 27%BURNET COUNTY SHERIFF: $15k → 9%THE SETON FUND: $15k → 10%BURTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT & AUXILIARY: $5k → 14%SALADO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $65k → 14%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ROCKPORT: $5k → 17%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $8k → 22%SOUTH TEXAS CHARITY WEEKEND INC: $8k → 27%BURNET COUNTY SHERIFF: $10k → 9%THE SETON FUND OF THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $12k → 10%SALADO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $60k → 14%ROCKPORT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $5k → 17%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $8k → 22%BURNET VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 9%SETON FOUNDATIONS: $18k → 10%SALADO CHURCH OF CHRIST: $50k → 14%ROCKPORT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $5k → 17%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $8k → 22%BURNET COUNTY SHERIFF: $10k → 9%SALADO CHURCH OF CHRIST: $50k → 14%ROCKPORT SHARKS SWIM TEAM: $7k → 17%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $8k → 22%SALADO CHURCH OF CHRIST: $33k → 14%ROCKPORT SHARKS SWIM TEAM: $5k → 17%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $8k → 22%LEGACY SALADO INC: $30k → 14%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $8k → 22%TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%SALADO LADIES COMMUNITY LEAGUE: $10k → 14%THE MUNY CONSERVANCY: $10k → 10%SALADO LADIES COMMUNITY LEAGUE: $10k → 14%THE MUNY CONSERVANCY: $5k → 10%SALADO LADIES COMMUNITY LEAGUE: $10k → 14%SALADO EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%HELPING HAND HOME: $5k → 10%TARRY TOWN METHODIST: $10k → 10%TARRYTOWN METHODIST CHURCH: $10k → 10%MFCC AUSTIN SAGRADO CORAZON: $15k → 10%MFCC AUSTIN SAGRADO CORAZON: $15k → 10%MFCC AUSTIN SAGRADO CORAZON: $15k → 10%MFCC AUSTIN SAGRADO CORAZON: $15k → 10%MFCC AUSTIN SAGRADO CORAZON: $15k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$797k · 21 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
21

Total granted

$797k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+68%

Still filing today

29%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitEducationPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterReligionHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundation
    5× · 2019–2023 · $38k · revenue +74%
  • BV
    BURNET VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    3× · 2018–2021 · $28k · revenue +12%
  • AS
    ASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $27k · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • LS
    LEGACY SALADO INC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · 53% of their budget
  • TP
    TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +137%
  • SF
    SETON FOUNDATIONS
    one grant, 2018 · $18k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Texas Flying Legends Museum
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2
Texas State Rifle Association Foundation Inc
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3
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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4
Texas Prairieland Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Greater Texas Foundation
Education
6
Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Texas Bankers Foundation
Education
8
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
9
Tx Sports and Cultural Foundation
Public Benefit
10
Texas Water Foundation

Texas water foundation is a statewide nonprofit that provides educational resources and educational services on water in texas for decision makers, water professionals, and everyday texans. texas water foundation works in the areas of…

Environment
11
Houston Geological Society Foundation
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12
Texas State University Development Foundation

To support and further the mission of texas state university through the acceptance and investment of gifts established as endowments benefiting the students, faculty and staff.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Muny Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Salado Historical Society: $207,214 · OtherSalado Historical SocietySALADO CHURCH OF CHRIST: $133,000 · OtherSALADO CHURCH OF CHRISTMFCC AUSTIN SAGRADO CORAZON: $77,000 · OtherMFCC AUSTIN SAGRADO CORAZONBAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CTF: $47,500 · OtherBAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CTFIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherSALADO LADIES COMMUNITY LEAGUE: $30,000 · OtherASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION: $26,600 · Other+24 more: $203,000 · Other+24 moreTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public BenefitMUNY CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · Public BenefitCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Public BenefitTexas A&M Foundation: $37,500 · Education+1 more: $200 · EducationSouth Texas Charity Weekend Inc: $32,500 · PhilanthropyTEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyLEGACY SALADO INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementBURNET VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $28,000 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $500 · Public Safety & DisasterScott & White Healthcare Foundation: $7,000 · Health
Other$759,314Public Benefit$42,000Education$37,700Philanthropy$37,500Community Improvement$30,000Public Safety & Disaster$28,500Health$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSalado Historical Society: $207,214 over 3y, 69% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Texas Charity Weekend Inc: $32,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetLEGACY SALADO INC: $30,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetBURNET VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $28,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION: $26,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUNY CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetScott & White Healthcare Foundation: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALADO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLIFFORD L WILLIAMS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Salado Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
  • Who funds South Texas Charity Weekend Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEGACY SALADO INC ↗
  • Who funds BURNET VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds ASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MUNY CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Scott & White Healthcare Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds SALADO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Foster Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foster Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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