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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 FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

International$244kHuman Services$238kHealth$235kEnvironment$136kPhilanthropy$86kFood & Nutrition$82kAnimals$71kRecreation & Sports$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
L-CMD RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
CURE CMD INC$7,000
BUTLER COUNTY YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$5,000
TOPSS$5,000
BUTLER COUNTY YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$4,000
ANIMAL ADOPTION FOUNDATION$3,000
THREAD UP OXFORD$3,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%GABRIELS ANGELS: $2k → 11%SUNFLOWER OF PEACE: $10k → 8%THE ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $12k → 11%CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $2k → 8%HOPES CLOSET: $2k → 16%DEAF BLIND SERVICE CENTER: $12k → 9%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $2k → 11%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 10%GABRIELS ANGELS: $2k → 11%MORE THAN A BED: $2k → 15%THE ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $12k → 11%CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $2k → 8%DEAF BLIND SERVICE CENTER: $12k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 10%GABRIELS ANGELS: $2k → 11%MORE THAN A BED: $2k → 15%THE ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $12k → 11%CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $2k → 8%DEAF BLIND SERVICE CENTER: $10k → 9%MORE THAN A BED: $2k → 15%THE ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $12k → 11%DEAF BLIND SERVICE CENTER: $10k → 9%MORE THAN A BED: $2k → 15%THE ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $12k → 11%DEAF BLIND SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 9%GAP MINISTRIES: $2k → 15%THE ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $12k → 11%DEAF BLIND SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 9%GAP MINISTRIES: $2k → 15%THE ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $5k → 11%ANGEL HEART PAJAMA PROJECT: $2k → 15%MARYS PLACE SEATTLE: $4k → 9%HOPES CLOSET: $3k → 12%HOPES CLOSET: $3k → 12%HOPES CLOSET: $2k → 12%HOPES CLOSET: $2k → 12%ABUSED DEAF WOMENS ADVOCACY SERVICES: $12k → 9%ABUSED DEAF WOMENS ADVOCACY SERVICES: $12k → 9%ABUSED DEAF WOMENS ADVOCACY SERVICES: $10k → 9%ABUSED DEAF WOMENS ADVOCACY SERVICES: $10k → 9%ABUSED DEAF WOMENS ADVOCACY SERVICES: $5k → 9%ABUSED DEAF WOMENS ADVOCACY SERVICES: $5k → 9%ABUSED DEAF WOMENS ADVOCACY SERVICES: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Foster Family Private Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.6% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 59 repeat orgs$192k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
34

Total granted

$1.2M
$192k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+29%

Still filing today

92%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsInternationalEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AF
    ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $77k · revenue +9%
  • TW
    TREES WATER AND PEOPLE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +149%
  • GI
    Genesis International Orphanage Foundation
    6× · 2019–2024 · $59k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • AN
    AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +81%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +98%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
3
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
4
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
5
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
6
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
7
Mercy for Animals Inc

Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…

Animals
8
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
9
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
10
Behavior Analyst Certification Board Inc

We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.

Employment
11
America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc

To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.

Food & Nutrition
12
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Concerns of Police Survivors. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Developmental Disabilities …Faith-Based Social ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsDance Arts OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsSchool Parent OrganizationsEnvironmental Conservation …Local Food System Organizat…Addiction Recovery ServicesDomestic Violence Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/88
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,477

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 83 of the 95 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/83
Grantees still filing
61/83
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY — $44,000 · OtherBAY AREA CRISIS NURSERYMAX HIGBEE COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER — $42,500 · OtherMAX HIGBEE COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTERAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS — $25,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INC — $23,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - UW MEDICINE — $20,000 · OtherCOLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS — $20,000 · OtherTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC — $17,000 · OtherTOPSS — $34,500 · OtherTOPSSRAINIER SCHOLARS — $19,000 · OtherTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $21,000 · OtherTEAM RUBICON INC — $17,000 · Other+36 more — $214,000 · Other+36 moreANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY — $77,000 · Human ServicesANGELS FOSTER FAMILY…ABUSED DEAF WOMEN'S ADVOCACY SERVICES — $56,000 · Human ServicesABUSED DEAF WOMEN'S …DEAF-BLIND SERVICE CENTER — $54,000 · Human ServicesDEAF-BLIND SERVICE C…MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $18,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S PLACE SEATTLEHOPE'S CLOSET INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesSUNFLOWER OF PEACE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Human Services+7 more — $32,000 · Human Services+7 moreAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $86,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUND…Genesis International Orphanage Foundation — $59,000 · InternationalGenesis Internat…International Rescue Committee INC — $20,000 · InternationalInternational Re…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $20,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FR…THE FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE — $9,500 · International+2 more — $10,000 · InternationalMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC — $54,000 · HealthMULTIPLE SCL…L-CMD RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthL-CMD RESEAR…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $22,500 · HealthTHE MICHAEL …CURE CMD — $20,000 · HealthCURE CMDBEN'S BELLS INC — $10,000 · HealthBEN'S BELLS …SUICIDE PREVENTION COALITION OF EAGLE VALLEY — $10,000 · HealthSUICIDE PREV…+3 more — $12,000 · Health+3 moreTREES WATER AND PEOPLE — $60,000 · EnvironmentTREES WAT…EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST — $27,000 · EnvironmentEAGLE VAL…Colorado Outdoor Education Center Inc — $21,500 · EnvironmentColorado …WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $7,500 · EnvironmentWORLD WIL…AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · EnvironmentNAPILI BAY AND BEACH FOUNDATIONINC — $5,000 · EnvironmentMEAN STREET MINISTRY — $58,000 · PhilanthropyMEAN STRE…YOUTHPOWER365 — $30,000 · PhilanthropyYOUTHPOWE…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $17,500 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES…GOLDEN ROTARY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyGOLDEN RO…HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyANIMAL ADOPTION FOUNDATION — $19,000 · AnimalsJungle Friends Primate Sanctuary — $17,500 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $14,000 · AnimalsANIMAL FRIENDS HUMANE SOCIETY — $7,000 · AnimalsNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY — $4,000 · AnimalsBEAUTIES AND BEASTS INC — $4,000 · Animals+2 more — $3,000 · Animals
Other$497,000Human Services$259,000International$204,500Health$153,500Environment$126,000Philanthropy$125,500Animals$68,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetANIMAL ADOPTION FOUNDATION — $19,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS — $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJungle Friends Primate Sanctuary — $17,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC — $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $17,000 over 3y, 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 budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAR CREEK ROCK HOUSE — $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetButte Rescue Mission — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSUNFLOWER OF PEACE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEN'S BELLS INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSUICIDE PREVENTION COALITION OF EAGLE VALLEY — $10,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMAIN STREET OTTUMWA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE — $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMORE THAN A BED — $8,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetStevens PTA Seattle Council Unit 6 15 327 — $8,000 over 3y, 1.7% 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 budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds TREES WATER AND PEOPLE ↗
  • Who funds Genesis International Orphanage Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MEAN STREET MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds ABUSED DEAF WOMEN'S ADVOCACY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds DEAF-BLIND SERVICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds MAX HIGBEE COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TOPSS ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHPOWER365 ↗
  • Who funds EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds L-CMD RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Outdoor Education Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CURE CMD ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL ADOPTION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary ↗
  • Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
  • Who funds BUTLER COUNTY YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HOPE'S CLOSET INC ↗
  • Who funds Spectrum Dance Theater ↗
  • Who funds GREEN PLATE SPECIAL ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

H Fort Flowers Founda…Community Foundation …Angel Charity for Chi…The Hs Lopez Family F…Colorado Gives Founda…The Intuit FoundationThe Diane and Bruce H…Hamilton Community Fo…Employees Community F…The Gap FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Xcel Energy Foundation
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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
27report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Foster Family Private Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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