· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION RESCUE MISSION | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $201,660 |
| MEET EACH NEED WITH DIGNITY (MEND) | $200,000 |
| CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| CASA YOUTH SHELTER | $125,000 |
| BUMBLEBEE FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| EMPOWERED NETWORK | $100,000 |
| HEAVENLY HOME | $100,000 |
| CASA PACIFICA | $100,000 |
| LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| THE MARK & JACOB ISKANDER FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| THERE WITH CARE | $75,000 |
| PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY - LA | $50,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH TRI-COUNTIES | $50,000 |
| CAREGIVERS VOLUNTEERS ASSISTING THE ELDERLY | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $258k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- URUNION RESCUE MISSION6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +67%
Compassion International Incorporated8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +16%- BFBUMBLEBEE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $945k · revenue +112% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +9%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -40%- HSHumane Society of North Texasone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -5%
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.
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.
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.
Valley Humane Society (VHS) creates a brighter future for cats and dogs by encouraging and strengthening the bond between people and pets. VHS rescues and rehabilitates companion animals, champions responsible caretaking, shares pets'…
California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 50 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds BUMBLEBEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA YOUTH SHELTER ↗
- Who funds CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER GRIEVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mark and Jacob Iskander Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAREGIVERS VOLUNTEERS ASSISTING THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HIT LIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CAREGIVER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds DOMUS PACIS FAMILY RESPITE INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of North Texas ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT STREET VET ↗
- Who funds Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOSPICE FOUNDAT ATTN MICHELLE WULFESTIEG ↗
- Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY CHESAPEAKE 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Foster Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Foster Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Empower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network: 47% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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