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The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc

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.

$37k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
21%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 48
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$37k0%
FY202414$61k21%
FY202315$56k40%
FY202240$189k18%
FY202135$163k11%
FY202043$196k23%
FY201948$260k29%
FY201839$218k33%
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What it funded, over time

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

International$244kHuman Services$238kHealth$235kEnvironment$136kPhilanthropy$86kFood & Nutrition$82kAnimals$71kRecreation & Sports$70kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
HI
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 86 grantees
All grantees of The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Americares Foundation Inc$86,00040%
Angels Foster Family Agency$77,00071%
Trees Water and People$60,00061%
Genesis International Orphanage Foundation$59,00062%
Mean Street Ministry$58,00062%
Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services$56,00071%
Multiple Sclerosis Association of America Inc$54,00060%
Deaf-Blind Service Center$54,00062%
Bay Area Crisis Nursery$44,00041%
Max Higbee Community Recreation Center$42,50052%
Topss$34,50093%
Youthpower365$30,00030%
Eagle Valley Land Trust$27,00070%
L-Cmd Research Foundation$25,00033%
City Year Inc$23,00060%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$22,50050%
Colorado Outdoor Education Center Inc$21,50070%
The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center$21,00060%
International Rescue Committee INC$20,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$20,00010%
Cure Cmd$20,00031%
Rainier Scholars$19,00050%
Animal Adoption Foundation$19,00042%
Mary's Place Seattle$18,00040%
Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary$17,50061%
Team Rubicon Inc$17,00030%
The Lighthouse for the Blind Inc$17,00060%
Butler County Youth Hockey Association$15,500311%
Golden Rotary Foundation$15,000317%
The Humane Society for Seattleking County$14,00050%
Thread Up Oxford$13,0003n/a
Hope's Closet Inc$12,00052%
Spectrum Dance Theater$11,50050%
Starr Workforce Inc$11,0003n/a
Green Plate Special$11,00044%
Sunflower of Peace Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc$10,00020%
Ben's Bells Inc$10,00050%
Main Street Ottumwa$10,00010%
Suicide Prevention Coalition of Eagle Valley$10,00050%
Clear Creek Rock House$10,00022%
Butte Rescue Mission$10,00020%
The Friendship Bridge$9,50050%
Stevens PTA Seattle Council Unit 6 15 327$8,00032%
More Than a Bed$8,00040%
Colorado Concerns of Police Survivors$8,00033%
Twenty Five and Four Inc$7,5004n/a
World Wildlife Fund Inc$7,50010%
St Mary Church$7,0001n/a
Animal Friends Humane Society$7,00030%
Northwest Harvest Emm$7,00030%
Resilience Advocates for Ending Violence$6,00030%
Gabriels Angels Inc$6,00030%
Domestic Violence Resource Center$5,50020%
For Kids Foundation$5,00021%
Cultivate Kansas City Inc$5,00020%
Anza-Borrego Foundation$5,00011%
Amazon Conservation Association$5,00010%
Shared Harvest Foodbank Inc$5,00010%
Maui Food Bank Inc$5,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$5,00010%
Napili Bay and Beach Foundationinc$5,00012%
Mercy Corps$5,00010%
International Mission Support Inc$5,00011%
Nevada Humane Society$4,00020%
Blood Cancer United Inc$4,00020%
Beauties and Beasts Inc$4,00020%
Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Inc$3,00010%
Anti-Defamation League$3,00020%
Gap Ministries$3,00010%
The Pulmonary Hypertension Association Inc$3,00020%
Borrego Springs Performing Arts Center$2,50014%
Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc$2,00020%
Make Way For Books$2,00010%
One Simple Wish Inc$2,00010%
Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc$2,00010%
Soccer Association for Youth - Oxford SAY Soccer$2,0001n/a
William Holmes McGuffey School Foundation$2,00020%
Red Wing Area Food Shelf$2,00012%
Hope Coalition$2,00010%
Youth Dynamics Inc$2,00010%
Camano Animal Shelter Association$2,00010%
Butte Emergency Food Bank$2,00010%
Teen Challenge of Arizona Inc$1,5001n/a
Angel Heart Pajama Project$1,50011%
River Bluff Humane Society Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($87k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $86,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAngels Foster Family Agency: $77,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTrees Water and People: $60,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetGenesis International Orphanage Foundation: $59,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetMean Street Ministry: $58,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetAbused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services: $56,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetMultiple Sclerosis Association of America Inc: $54,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDeaf-Blind Service Center: $54,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetBay Area Crisis Nursery: $44,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMax Higbee Community Recreation Center: $42,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTopss: $34,500 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetYouthpower365: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEagle Valley Land Trust: $27,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetL-Cmd Research Foundation: $25,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCity Year Inc: $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Outdoor Education Center Inc: $21,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Colorado Nonprofit Development Center: $21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCure Cmd: $20,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetRainier Scholars: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Adoption Foundation: $19,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetMary's Place Seattle: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJungle Friends Primate Sanctuary: $17,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTeam Rubicon Inc: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lighthouse for the Blind Inc: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetButler County Youth Hockey Association: $15,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetGolden Rotary Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetThe Humane Society for Seattleking County: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHope's Closet Inc: $12,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSpectrum Dance Theater: $11,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGreen Plate Special: $11,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetSunflower of Peace Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBen's Bells Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMain Street Ottumwa: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSuicide Prevention Coalition of Eagle Valley: $10,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetClear Creek Rock House: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetButte Rescue Mission: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Friendship Bridge: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStevens PTA Seattle Council Unit 6 15 327: $8,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMore Than a Bed: $8,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetColorado Concerns of Police Survivors: $8,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Friends Humane Society: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Harvest Emm: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetResilience Advocates for Ending Violence: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 80.

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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.

H Fort Flowers FoundationTX21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: H Fort Flowers Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Angel Charity for Children Inc · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Gap Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy 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.

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About The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc

How much does The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc give?
The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $37,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (17%), Human Services (17%), Health (16%).
Who are The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Americares Foundation Inc ($86k), Angels Foster Family Agency ($77k), Trees Water and People ($60k).
Does The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc 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 Private Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include H Fort Flowers Foundation, Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, Angel Charity for Children Inc.
Where is The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc based?
The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc is based in DE.

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 95 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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