Michigan · Nonprofit
ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE SPECIALISTS INC
ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE SPECIALISTS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $107 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($107). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $107
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Adoption and Foster Care Specialists Inc does
Mission
To provide social services in the areas of individual, joint and family counseling, psychological testing, evaluation and assessment reports, group counseling with children, adolescents and adults, and consultation and training primarily as they relate to adoption and foster care services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the fiscal year, adoption and foster care specialists, inc. Facilitated the adoption of children into families. These were all special-needs children with emotional, medical and/or cognitive disabilities. There were several large sibling groups that the agency was able to keep together in permanent families through adoption. In the past, roughly one half of the children serviced for adoption by the agency have been 10 years of age or older. During this fiscal year, there was a noted change in the age with many of the children adopted being below the age of 6. This change is directly related to the age that the children are entering foster care being younger than in past years as well as the courts general lean to establish permanency in a faster time frame resulting in the termination of parental rights occurring more quickly when there is a lack of progress on the treatment plan by the birth parents. Adoption and foster care specialists has also provided the state of michigan with foster care and foster home licensing services. During this fiscal year, the agency provided foster care services for a number children. There were a number of foster homes that provided care for…
$3,231,371 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,231,371.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.8M to $3.4M (+20%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
0% of ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE SPECIALISTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $44 → $24.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE SPECIALISTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE SPECIALISTS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE SPECIALISTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE SPECIALISTS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE SPECIALISTS INC?
- ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE SPECIALISTS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $107 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($107). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE SPECIALISTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $107 in grants to ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE SPECIALISTS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE SPECIALISTS INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $107 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE SPECIALISTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing