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CARING FOR KIDS INC

CARING FOR KIDS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,576,218 to it, the largest being DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ($9,018,970). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.8M
Funders on record
30
Grants received
$9.6M
Net assets
$2.1M
14/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Caring for Kids Inc does

Mission

Caring for kids, inc. (cfk) is a private, non-profit, full-service adoption and foster care agency operating since 1995. Cfk specializes in diverse and inclusive birth parent, foster care, adoption and behavioral health services. Our mission is to surround those impacted by adoption and foster care with compassionate and competent care. Our vision is to care for every child, every family, every step of the way, through integrity-based, client-centered, and trauma-informed services that c.a.r.e. (celebrate uniqueness, advocate for equity, respect differences, empower all voices).

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Foster care program - during the 2024-2025 fiscal year, cfk provided care for 170 children. Foster care has been the foundational program of cfk for over 20 years by certifying foster caregivers and thus, providing safe and nurturing homes for abused and neglected children in the custody of child protective services. Over the years we have seen a significant increase in the number of children coming into foster care resulting in a constant need to recruit and certify new foster caregivers. Ohio children are entering foster care at a rate never before seen. The main reasons for the increase in numbers of children coming into care revolve around parental drug addiction and domestic violence. Sometimes, children do not return home, and foster caregivers are needed to not only foster but to adopt children who are placed with them. 35 of the 170 placements switched from foster to adoption status.

    $3,299,500 spent$3,058,478 earned by the program
    48% of program spending
  2. Adoption provides a permanent plan for a child and represents a lifelong commitment. Children of all ages are available for adoption through private domestic adoption or the public child welfare system. Private domestic infant program: during the 2024-2025 fiscal year cfk provided services to 125 expecting parents in ohio. These parents expressed an interest in learning more about making an adoption plan for their newborn or previously made an adoption plan. Cfk provides pre-and postadoption counseling, supportive services, education on the state of ohio adoption laws and prepares the social and medical history of the birth parent(s). Cfk works with expectant parent(s) and pre-adoptive families to create a plan respectful of everyone involved, as well as provide counseling and support services. Cfk is committed to a thoughtful process and offers extensive support for the adoptive parents, the expectant parents, and the children. Cfk believes working together allows for the best possible match which will benefit all members of the adoption triad. Cfk placed 37 newborns during the 2024-2025 fiscal year. Public adoption - cfk matched 5 children available for adoption from the public…

    $1,167,144 spent$1,063,915 earned by the program
    17% of program spending
  3. Wendy's wonderful kids recruitment - this program was successful in finalizing 36 adoptions making 54 adoption matches during the 2024-2025 fiscal year. Cfk has an ongoing partnership with the dave thomas foundation for adoption (dtf). Dtf has awarded cfk 21 grants creating a presence of 21 wendy's wonderful kids recruiters on our staff recruiting families for those children who have been waiting the longest for an adoptive family and home. These 21 social workers provide services to over 310 children combined at any given time.

    $2,440,420 spent
    35% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,907,064.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($3.2M) Net assets 100 ($869k)2018 Revenue 124 ($4.1M) Expenses 117 ($3.7M) Net assets 147 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 126 ($4.2M) Expenses 130 ($4.2M) Net assets 156 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 131 ($4.4M) Expenses 138 ($4.4M) Net assets 156 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 151 ($5.1M) Expenses 146 ($4.7M) Net assets 217 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 182 ($6.1M) Expenses 176 ($5.6M) Net assets 262 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 197 ($6.6M) Expenses 208 ($6.6M) Net assets 261 ($2.3M)2024 Revenue 205 ($6.9M) Expenses 211 ($6.7M) Net assets 283 ($2.5M)2025 Revenue 203 ($6.8M) Expenses 223 ($7.1M) Net assets 247 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (203)Expenses (223)Net assets (247)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.7M to $4.0M (+46%).

$1.1M
$1.5M
$1.6M
$2.1M
$2.3M
$2.6M
$2.7M
$4.0M
$3.9M
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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.

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2018
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

38% of CARING FOR KIDS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$161k
’17
$403k
’18
$70k
’19
−$1k
’20
$404k
’21
$497k
’22
−$29k
’23
$132k
’24
−$333k
’25
1.3
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.

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Listed8898886119
Joined·+0+1+0+0+0+0+5+3
No longer listed·00100205
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $397k → $1.5M.

6 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 CARING FOR KIDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 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

CARING FOR KIDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% 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 CARING FOR KIDS INC.

94%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 88% · 2019 92% · 2020 99% · 2021 95% · 2022 89% · 2023 95% — growing more concentrated.

“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

33% of CARING FOR KIDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

97% of CARING FOR KIDS INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

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

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

Against its field

CARING FOR KIDS INC has grown faster than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like CARING FOR KIDS 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

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Questions and answers

Who funds CARING FOR KIDS INC?
CARING FOR KIDS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,576,218 to it, the largest being DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ($9,018,970). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CARING FOR KIDS INC have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $9,576,218 in grants to CARING FOR KIDS INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CARING FOR KIDS INC?
DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION is the largest funder on record, with $9,018,970 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CARING FOR KIDS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 30 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