California · Nonprofit
CONTRA COSTA FOSTER FRIENDS
CONTRA COSTA FOSTER FRIENDS (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,000 to it, the largest being DANVILLE CHILDRENS GUILD ($250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $410k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $345k
- Net assets
- $420k
What Contra Costa Foster Friends does
Mission
To provide critical support to foster children and their caregivers in Contra Costa County California
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Resource Center that provides free essential goods to foster children
$95,717 spent91% of program spendingSocial events for foster children and foster families
$5,513 spent5% of program spendingSupport group meetings for foster parents, including child care for foster children.
$1,467 spent1% of program spendingOpportunity Fund to pay for extracurricular activities for foster children
$1,934 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $104,631.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $115k to $420k (+264%).
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: 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CONTRA COSTA FOSTER FRIENDS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Claudia Mercier
Chief Executive Officer and President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 CONTRA COSTA FOSTER FRIENDS’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
CONTRA COSTA FOSTER FRIENDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 CONTRA COSTA FOSTER FRIENDS.
“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
98% of CONTRA COSTA FOSTER FRIENDS's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CONTRA COSTA FOSTER FRIENDS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CONTRA COSTA FOSTER FRIENDS
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CONTRA COSTA FOSTER FRIENDS: 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 CONTRA COSTA FOSTER FRIENDS?
- CONTRA COSTA FOSTER FRIENDS (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,000 to it, the largest being DANVILLE CHILDRENS GUILD ($250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONTRA COSTA FOSTER FRIENDS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $345,000 in grants to CONTRA COSTA FOSTER FRIENDS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONTRA COSTA FOSTER FRIENDS?
- DANVILLE CHILDRENS GUILD is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONTRA COSTA FOSTER FRIENDS 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 10 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