California · Nonprofit
Ark Homes Foster Family Agency
Ark Homes Foster Family Agency (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,725 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ($23,709). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Ark Homes Foster Family Agency does
Mission
Ark Homes Foster Family Agency is committed to creating a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment for children by matching each child's needs with an appropriate family-based placement and services that promote stability, healing, and a better quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Foster Care and Adoption Services: Ark Homes Foster Family Agency provides foster care placement, family support, treatment coordination, and training for resource families to help ensure children are placed in safe and appropriate home environments that meet their individual needs. During the year covered, we served 101 children from San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange County for 14,819 days of care.
$1,947,513 spentof which $883,393 as grants$125,200 earned by the program77% of program spendingArk Homes Foster Family Agency provides mental health and case management services to eligible children and youth placed in the Agency's care, supporting emotional stability, trauma recovery, behavioral health needs, placement stability, and overall well-being in accordance with county program requirements.Mental Health Services - San Bernardino County:Under its agreement with the San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health, Ark Homes Foster Family Agency provides mental health and case management services to eligible children placed in the Agency's care by San Bernardino County.Mental Health Services - Riverside County:Under its agreement with Riverside University Health System - Behavioral Health, Ark Homes Foster Family Agency provides mental health and case management services to eligible children in Intensive Services Foster Care placements referred by Riverside County, including children placed with the Agency and other eligible outside referrals.Psychosocial Services: Ark Homes Foster Family Agency provides psychosocial assessment services for families referred by the County of San Bernardino as part of the home study process. The assessment evaluates the family's…
$582,316 spentof which $5,750 as grants$470,968 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,529,829.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.2M to $1.8M (+47%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 98% · 2018 96% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 90% · 2024 83% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of Ark Homes Foster Family Agency’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
David K Mathias
Exec. Director/Secretary
Board chair
Sahaar Azariah Joseph
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $16.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Ark Homes Foster Family Agency’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 funders by total. 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
Ark Homes Foster Family Agency leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Ark Homes Foster Family Agency.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
Ark Homes Foster Family Agency draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
Ark Homes Foster Family Agency runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Government funding Ark Homes Foster Family Agency receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$12.8M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Ark Homes Foster Family Agency
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ark Homes Foster Family Agency: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Ark Homes Foster Family Agency?
- Ark Homes Foster Family Agency (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,725 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ($23,709). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ark Homes Foster Family Agency have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $28,725 in grants to Ark Homes Foster Family Agency.
- Who is the largest funder of Ark Homes Foster Family Agency?
- NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $23,709 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ark Homes Foster Family Agency find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 4 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