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Fostering Success Act Inc

Fostering success act, inc.

$6.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5.1M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232025.

Human Services$9.2MEducation$1.1MCommunity Improvement$344kCivil Rights$74kYouth Development$21k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $452k
  • $250k+3 grants · $5.7M
$73,588
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAITHBRIDGE FOSTER CARE$5,062,531
HOPE THRU SOAP INC$344,056
BLOOM OUR YOUTH INC$308,697
UP3 INC$182,678
CONNECTION HOMES$146,014
BRIGHTSIDE CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY INC$73,588
TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF GA FOUNDATION INC$50,000
THE UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME OF NORTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE INC$28,233
THE ORANGE DUFFEL BAG INITIATIVE$20,957
FAMILIES 4 FAMILIES$11,490
BALD RIDGE LODGE INC$9,864
MULTI-AGENCY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC$7,165
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $8.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BALD RIDGE LODGE INC: $10k → 4%THE GOSHEN VALLEY FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 6%BLOOM OUR YOUTH INC: $309k → 6%LYDIA'S PLACE INC: $5k → 6%FAMILIES 4 FAMILIES: $11k → 11%METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE INC: $9k → 23%BALD RIDGE LODGE INC: $7k → 4%FAITHBRIDGE FOSTER CARE: $5.1M → 13%UP3 INC: $183k → 14%FAITHBRIDGE FOSTER CARE: $3.1M → 13%UP3 INC: $12k → 14%FAITHBRIDGE: $200k → 13%THE UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME OF NORTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE INC: $28k → 14%MULTI-AGENCY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $7k → 13%MULTI-AGENCY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $6k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.8M · 5 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$8.8M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $837k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • FF
    FaithBridge Foster Care Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $8.3M · revenue +43% · 27% of their budget
  • BR
    BALD RIDGE LODGE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $17k · revenue +9%
  • MA
    MULTI-AGENCY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $14k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • US
    University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +23%
  • MH
    METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue +14%
  • LP
    LYDIAS PLACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +27%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Covenant House Georgia Inc

Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.

2
Thrive Academy Atlanta Inc

Thrive Academy is a private Christian school using education as a platform to reach, disciple, and empower students facing systemic injustice, childhood trauma, and poverty. With student housing, engaging curriculum, and intentional…

Education
3
Kids Restart Inc

Provide services to children in the foster system

Crime & Legal
4
Gents&Glam Community Family and Youth Services

The mission of the organization mission is to inspire youth to dream believe and achieve.

Human Services
5
Landmarks for Families Inc

For more than 230 years, Landmarks for Families has been a refuge for thousands of children and youth, providing services and support for children who have experienced trauma in our community. Known as a leader and champion for children in…

Human Services
6
Advocacy for Foster Children Inc

Support for foster children and parents

Human Services
7
Pathways Youth and Family Services Inc

Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.

Human Services
8
Open Arms Inc

It is the mission of open arms, inc. to bring healing, hope, and help to children, adults, and their families in need of support, intervention and prevention as a result of child abuse in all of its forms.

Human Services
9
Georgia Center for Youth Excellence

Our program and services are deigned with intentions of transforming the young men feelings and experiences about their issuse through a positive youth development approach. GACYE meets the youth where they are in life so that they can…

Human Services
10
Louisiana United Methodist Children & Family Services Inc

The organization seeks to provide the highest quality of care in ministry to the diverse needs of louisiana's children and families by offering a variety of holistic services which promote personal growth and wholesome family life. the…

Human Services
11
Hope Center for Children

Hope center for children's mission is to build stable, healthy families in the upstate of sc by providing a safe place from abuse and neglect.

12
Georgia Hope Inc

Provide Displaced Children in a loving, warm, nurturing, educational therapeutic home with foster parents until permanency can be sought or by return to biological families or placement in adoptive homes

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Methodist Home of the South Georgia Conference Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bald Ridge Lodge Inc. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FaithBridge Foster Care Inc — $8,325,254 · Human ServicesFaithBridge Foster Care IncBLOOM OUR YOUTH INC — $308,697 · Human Services+8 more — $284,029 · Human ServicesUniversity System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates — $1,000,000 · EducationUniversity…HOPE THRU SOAP INC — $344,056 · Community ImprovementCONNECTIONS HOMES INC — $285,459 · OtherThe Technical College System of Georgia Foundation — $50,000 · OtherBRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC — $73,588 · Civil RightsTHE ORANGE DUFFEL BAG INITIATIVE INC — $20,957 · Youth Development
Human Services$8,917,980Education$1,000,000Community Improvement$344,056Other$335,459Civil Rights$73,588Youth Development$20,957

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFaithBridge Foster Care Inc — $8,325,254 over 3y, 27% of budgetUniversity System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates — $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBLOOM OUR YOUTH INC — $308,697 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCONNECTIONS HOMES INC — $285,459 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetUp3 Inc — $194,414 over 2y, 14% of budgetBRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC — $73,588 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetThe Technical College System of Georgia Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE NORTH GA CONFERENCE INC — $28,233 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBALD RIDGE LODGE INC — $16,978 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMULTI-AGENCY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC — $13,580 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE INC — $8,808 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYDIAS PLACE INC — $5,263 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGOSHEN VALLEY FOUNDATION INC — $5,263 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Fostering Success Act Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fostering Success Act Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Fostering Success Act Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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