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CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC
CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,537 to it, the largest being TICKET TO DREAM FOUNDATION ($82,225). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $101k
- Net assets
- $-9487
What Connecticut Alliance of Foster and Adoptive Families Inc does
Mission
The organization is committed to strengthening foster, adoptive, and kinship care families through support, training, advocacy, recruitment and retention with the aim of nurturing child safety, wellbeing and stability in partnership with child welfare professionals and the entire community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Support services: connecticut alliance of foster and adoptive families (cafaf), inc's regional liaison employees reside in connecticut department of children and families (dcf) area offices and provide assistance to each of the regions in connecticut. These employees are the first line of support for foster, adoptive, and relative parents who call with questions, concerns, or require resolution of individual issues. Regional liaisons are also available to assist dcf staff with foster and adoptive recruitment and retention activities.
$1,599,504 spentof which $243,936 as grants62% of program spendingRecruitment and retention: cafaf engages in recruitment efforts to develop a skilled, caring and diverse pool of foster and adoptive families that demonstrate the ability, willingness and commitment to meet the safety, emotional and permanency needs of children without homes.
$474,726 spent18% of program spendingTraining and conferences: cafaf offers post-licensing training classes to any individuals licensed by dcf or a private agency. Participants are trained in areas that will best help develop their competencies as determined during the mutual assessment process with their dcf foster and adoptive services unit support worker. Cafaf offers four yearly conferences, ranging from one-day symposiums to the two-day annual conference. These events draw on skilled, experienced child welfare experts and offer unique opportunities for networking and learning.
$368,701 spent14% of program spendingAdvocacy: cafaf provides information and outreach to the general public through maintaining a website, distributing quarterly newsletters and weekly emails dedicated to the discussion of federal, state and local legislative and policy issues relevant to the foster and adoptive care community.
$132,182 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,575,113.
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 2023 to 2024, from $150k to $520k (+247%).
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 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 97% · 2021 88% · 2022 90% · 2023 95% · 2024 89% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Margaret Doherty
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $3k → $36k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 9 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
CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 91% · 2023 79% — 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.
Where its funders are
CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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
CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.7M on record.
- State Aid Grants$19.6M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$144k
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 CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES 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 Connecticut
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
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC?
- CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,537 to it, the largest being TICKET TO DREAM FOUNDATION ($82,225). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $100,537 in grants to CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC?
- TICKET TO DREAM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $82,225 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 9 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