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The Foster Family Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$31k
Granted FY2018
11
Grants FY2018
11
Organizations funded FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2018
$13,500
States reached, FY2018
8
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
PA
CT
CO
MD
SC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Emerson Health Care Foundation Inc$13,50011%
Pilgrim Church Inc$3,0001n/a
Grace Valley Ministries Inc$2,50012%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$1,37110%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$50010%
Endicott College$50010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

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About The Foster Family Foundation

How much does The Foster Family Foundation give?
The Foster Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $30,871 in its FY2018 IRS filing.
What does The Foster Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2018, its largest causes are Health (50%), Religion (28%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are The Foster Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2018: Emerson Health Care Foundation Inc ($14k), Pilgrim Church Inc ($3k), Grace Valley Ministries Inc ($3k).
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.
Where is The Foster Family Foundation based?
The Foster Family Foundation is based in MA.

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 11 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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