How much does The Foster Family Charitable Foundation give?

The Foster Family Charitable Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $1,728,301 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Foster Family Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (36%), International (16%), Human Services (9%).

Who are The Foster Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Village Hopecore International ($2.0M), Prevail Ca ($1.4M), Reinvent Stockton Foundation ($1.1M).

Does The Foster Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Foster Family Charitable Foundation 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 The Foster Family Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cortopassi Family Foundation, San Joaquin Community Foundation Inc, The 54 Fund.

Where is The Foster Family Charitable Foundation based?

The Foster Family Charitable Foundation is based in CA.

The Foster Family Charitable Foundation

The Foster Family Charitable Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The Foster Family Charitable 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.

$1.7M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$311k

Largest

01What it funds

0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$5.6MInternational$2.6MHuman Services$1.4MAnimals$1.2MEducation$1.1MCommunity Improvement$1.1MEnvironment$1.0MFood & Nutrition$469kOther$0

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $11k
$10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
$250k+2 grants · $569k

$35,000

Median grant

States reached

$31M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL	$311,369
UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC	$257,731
VILLAGE HOPECORE INTERNATIONAL	$240,000
REINVENT STOCKTON FOUNDATION	$189,026
PREVAIL	$150,000
FEATHER RIVER LAND TRUST	$140,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$104,000
PLACER SPCA	$90,000
LOEL FOUNDATION	$60,000
CHILDREN'S EYE FOUNDATION OF AAPOS	$55,000
SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH	$50,000
MERCY CHEFS	$35,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY	$25,000
SUPPORT STOCKTON POLICE FOUNDATION	$10,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$15M · 33 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$15M

$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+13%

Still filing today

70%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureEducationInternationalOther

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

VH
VILLAGE HOPECORE INTERNATIONAL
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +48% · 37% of their budget
PC
PREVAIL CA
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +58%
REINVENT STOCKTON FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +15%

Funded once

CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN JOAQUIN--STOCKTON ANIMAL SHELTER
one grant, 2019 · $50k
FO
FRIENDS OF MAHA'ULEPUgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +405% · 49% of their budget
RY
ROSEVILLE YOUTH SOCCER CLUB
one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +10%

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.

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Sempervirens Fund

To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…

Environment

International Snow Leopard Trust

The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…

Animals

California State Parks Foundation

California state parks foundation is an independent, member-supported nonprofit dedicated to protecting and preserving the california state park system for the benefit of all.

Recreation & Sports

Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International

Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals

Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment

California Academy of Sciences

The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…

Arts & Culture

San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reinvent Stockton Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute. 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

45 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. 45 of the 71 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/45

Grantees still filing

31/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$8,874,547Human Services$1,876,000Animals$1,171,826Education$1,139,510Community Improvement$1,103,943Environment$1,017,218International$538,369

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

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.

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.

The Cortopassi Family FoundationCA32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cortopassi Family Foundation · San Joaquin Community Foundation Inc · The 54 Fund · The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation · Crete Family Foundation · Mildred Luck Lewis Foundation · Rosi Cerri Foundation Inc · Port City Operating Company LLC · Coastal Barrier Island Foundation · Teichert Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Marin 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

12report 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.

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