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Foster Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$100k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 28
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Foster Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$100k0%
FY20236$305k0%
FY202214$452k29%
FY202113$493k23%
FY202018$464k28%
FY201922$717k27%
FY201820$553k20%
FY201728$569kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$871kPhilanthropy$797kYouth Development$728kHealth$682kEducation$361kHuman Services$285kReligion$227kRecreation & Sports$101kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NV
KY
VA
NC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Open Door Ministries of High Point Inc$870,50078%
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc$727,724813%
Community Clinic of High Point Inc$309,50071%
St Joseph's Villa$216,50060%
St Marys Episcopal Church$109,0005n/a
Flagler College Inc$100,00010%
The Steward School$50,00010%
The Piedmont School Inc$50,00013%
Victory Junction Gang Camp Inc$50,00010%
Greater High Point Food Alliance$50,0001n/a
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Foster Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Open Door Ministries of High Point Inc$870,50078%
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc$727,724813%
Community Clinic of High Point Inc$309,50071%
St Joseph's Villa$216,50060%
St Marys Episcopal Church$109,0005n/a
Flagler College Inc$100,00010%
The Steward School$50,00010%
The Piedmont School Inc$50,00013%
Victory Junction Gang Camp Inc$50,00010%
Greater High Point Food Alliance$50,0001n/a
Family Service of High Point Foundation Inc$40,00035%
West End Ministries$30,50041%
Helping Hands Ministries Inc$11,00047%
Hospice of the Piedmont Inc$11,00030%
James River Association$11,00020%
Anna Julia Cooper School$10,00010%
The Salvation Army$8,0002n/a
Feed More Inc$7,40030%
Theatre Art Galleries Inc$4,00021%
Charles City County$2,5001n/a
Operation Smile Inc$2,40010%
His Laboring Few Ministries Inc$1,7503n/a
The Houston Food Bank$1,50010%
Guilford Co Public Schools$1,1501n/a
Assemblies of Christ Church Ministries Inc$1,0001n/a
Light House Group Inc$1,00021%
Hope Town United Inc$1,00010%
General Federation of Womens Club$60011%
Davidson County Animal Alliance Inc$5001n/a
Good Friends of High Point Inc$5001n/a
High Point Arts Council Inc$50010%

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($971k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Foster Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOpen Door Ministries of High Point Inc: $870,500 over 7y, 8.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc: $727,724 over 8y, 13% of budgetCommunity Clinic of High Point Inc: $309,500 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetSt Joseph's Villa: $216,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFlagler College Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Steward School: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Piedmont School Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetVictory Junction Gang Camp Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFamily Service of High Point Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetWest End Ministries: $30,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHelping Hands Ministries Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetHospice of the Piedmont Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJames River Association: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAnna Julia Cooper School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeed More Inc: $7,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTheatre Art Galleries Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLight House Group Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHope Town United Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGeneral Federation of Womens Club: $600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHigh Point Arts Council Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family FoundationDE22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation · Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family Foundation · The Apat & Kathryne Lbrown Foundation · McInnis Family Foundation · Meredith Slane Finch Michener Foundation Inc · The Ann G and Vann York Foundation · Hayworth Foundation · The Clark Foundation Inc · Brayton Family Charitable Foundation · David R Hayworth Foundation · A Simple Gesture - Greensboro Inc · High Point Community 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.

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About Foster Foundation Inc

How much does Foster Foundation Inc give?
Foster Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Foster Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (21%), Philanthropy (19%), Youth Development (17%).
Who are Foster Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Open Door Ministries of High Point Inc ($871k), BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc ($728k), Community Clinic of High Point Inc ($310k).
Does Foster Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Foster Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Foster Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation, Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family Foundation, The Apat & Kathryne Lbrown Foundation.
Where is Foster Foundation Inc based?
Foster Foundation Inc is based in VA.

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 51 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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