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ADOPTIVE & FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF NEW YORK

ADOPTIVE & FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,479,710 to it, the largest being REDLICH HORWITZ FOUNDATION ($882,820). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.4M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$2.5M
15/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Adoptive & Foster Family Coalition of New York does

Mission

The Coalition unites foster, adoptive and kinship care families, giving them a voice and providing support, information and advocacy. By fostering communication and collaboration between families, agencies and concerned citizens,we seek to ensure the stability, well-being and permanency of all children.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Foster care, adoption and kinship care support; advocacy regarding issues that impact families and children in care; community education; parenting training and education; annual statewide foster care and adoption conference; 24/7 Helpline assistance for parents and professionals;post adoption and post guardianship support; print and electronic materials, as well as a comprehensive website, to provide information about the child welfare system, parenting, trauma and services.

    $1,743,711 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,743,711.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($866k) Net assets 100 ($235k)2018 Revenue 122 ($1.2M) Expenses 139 ($1.2M) Net assets 117 ($276k)2019 Revenue 138 ($1.4M) Expenses 158 ($1.4M) Net assets 131 ($307k)2020 Revenue 159 ($1.6M) Expenses 173 ($1.5M) Net assets 178 ($419k)2021 Revenue 180 ($1.8M) Expenses 158 ($1.4M) Net assets 375 ($881k)2022 Revenue 265 ($2.7M) Expenses 172 ($1.5M) Net assets 881 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 172 ($1.7M) Expenses 190 ($1.6M) Net assets 923 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 239 ($2.4M) Expenses 246 ($2.1M) Net assets 1050 ($2.5M)
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Revenue (239)Expenses (246)Net assets (1050)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $889k to $2.1M (+138%).

$343k
$384k
$416k
$615k
$889k
$2.1M
$2.3M
$2.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$147k
’17
$41k
’18
$31k
’19
$112k
’20
$462k
’21
$1.2M
’22
$97k
’23
$299k
’24
12
months of
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.

Chief executive

Patrick O'Brien

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed558912121111
Joined·+0+4+3+5+1+1+3
No longer listed·0122123
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $283k → $435k.

4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 ADOPTIVE & FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF NEW YORK’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.

How concentrated its funding is

ADOPTIVE & FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF NEW YORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

46% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADOPTIVE & FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF NEW YORK.

36%
largest funder
62%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 71% · 2019 89% · 2020 54% · 2021 55% · 2022 24% · 2023 26% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.

How long its funders stay

75% of ADOPTIVE & FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF NEW YORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

69% of ADOPTIVE & FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF NEW YORK's grant income comes from New York funders.

VT
IL
NY
OH
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $509k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ADOPTIVE & FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF NEW YORK

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In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 16%Fundraising 2%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

89%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds ADOPTIVE & FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF NEW YORK?
ADOPTIVE & FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,479,710 to it, the largest being REDLICH HORWITZ FOUNDATION ($882,820). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ADOPTIVE & FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF NEW YORK have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,479,710 in grants to ADOPTIVE & FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF NEW YORK, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ADOPTIVE & FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF NEW YORK?
REDLICH HORWITZ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $882,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ADOPTIVE & FOSTER FAMILY COALITION OF NEW YORK find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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