North Carolina · Nonprofit
Congregations for Kids Inc
Congregations for Kids Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $939,534 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($311,250). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $940k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Congregations for Kids Inc does
Mission
Congregations for Kids (CFK) exists to mobilize Church and community to care for children & families connected to the foster care system. With other agencies, CFK empowers them to wrap around foster families, support youth in foster care, and appreciate social workers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through its Foster Pathway, Congregations for Kids equips and encourages foster and kinship parents caring for vulnerable children. In 2025, CFK recruited and trained 55 new foster parents and expanded support to families across multiple counties in Charlotte. CFK provided 426 meals and gifts to foster families and hosted connection and respite events attended by more than 400 caregivers and children. These efforts strengthen stability for families caring for children in foster care and reduce isolation by building supportive community around foster and kinship parents.
$246,082 spent44% of program spendingThrough its Mentor and Serve pathways, CFK mobilizes volunteers to suppost youth in foster care and the professionals who serve them. In 2025, 368 volunteers contributed more than 1,600 service hours through programs that encouraged social workers, supported foster families, and strengthened community engagement. CFKs Mentor Match program also continued to grow, surpassing 40 active mentoring relationships connecting youth in foster care with committed adult mentors who provide consistent support and guidance during critical developmental years.
$188,709 spent34% of program spendingThrough its Give Pathway, CFK operates the Landing Platform, which connects community members to urgent tangible needs for children and families involved in foster care. In 2025, the organization mobilized volunteers to meet more than 1,023 requests valued at over $97,000, providing essential items such as clothing, beds, diapers, and other necessities. The platform also welcomed 94 new community volunteers who responded to needs and helped ensure children entering care had timely access to basic resources.
$126,933 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $561,724.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $989k to $1.4M (+43%).
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.
104% of Congregations for Kids Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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 8 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
Gen Bowden
Exec Director
Board chair
Nick Boardman
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $6k → $199k.
13 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 Congregations for Kids Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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
Congregations for Kids Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 Congregations for Kids Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 98% · 2020 54% · 2021 74% · 2022 51% · 2023 36% — 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
71% of Congregations for Kids Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
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
81% of Congregations for Kids 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. Of the $180k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $759k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
Congregations for Kids Inc holds deeper cash reserves 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
Organizations like Congregations 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.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% 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 Congregations for Kids Inc?
- Congregations for Kids Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $939,534 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($311,250). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Congregations for Kids Inc have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $939,534 in grants to Congregations for Kids Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Congregations for Kids Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $311,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Congregations for Kids Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 26 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