California · Private foundation
The 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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations The Foster Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $1.9M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $1.8M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $2.0M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $1.8M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $1.6M | 6% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $1.7M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $1.8M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $1.5M | 19% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Rescue Mission | $1,633,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $1,167,961 | 8 | 0% |
| Bumblebee Foundation Inc | $945,000 | 9 | 40% |
| Casa Youth Shelter | $940,000 | 9 | 9% |
| Celiac Disease Foundation | $915,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families | $750,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $745,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Empower Grieving Children Inc | $725,000 | 7 | 27% |
| Orangewood Foundation | $700,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $695,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Foster Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 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 · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Sempra Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Foster Family Foundation
- How much does The Foster Family Foundation give?
- The Foster Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $1,939,649 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Foster Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (39%), Housing & Shelter (17%), Health (13%).
- Who are The Foster Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Union Rescue Mission ($1.6M), Compassion International Incorporated ($1.2M), Bumblebee Foundation Inc ($945k).
- Does The Foster Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Foster Family 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, California Foundation for Stronger Communities, Sempra Foundation.
- Where is The Foster Family Foundation based?
- The Foster Family Foundation is based in CA.
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