North Carolina · Nonprofit
CREATING A FAMILY
CREATING A FAMILY (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,142,438 to it, the largest being Jockey Being Family Foundation Ltd ($887,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $747k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $844k
What Creating a Family does
Mission
Foster, kinship and adoptive parents need information because our children often struggle with emotional and educational challenges that can make parenting hard. It is important that this information be expert-based and trauma-informed rather than the anecdotal sharing that often takes place. The MISSION of Creating a Family is to do just that - to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster and kinship parents and the professionals who support them by creating engaging, expert-based and trauma-informed resources and training. We create resources for families raising kids who have experienced the trauma of neglect, abuse and prenatal exposure. Our resources embrace all the current media in order to fit the learning style and time availability of busy parents. In addition to education, we know first-hand the power of support and being surrounded by others who understand your experience. As such, we run a large online support group for adoptive, foster and kinship families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Creating a Family's Interactive Training and Support Curriculum for Foster, Adoptive & Kinship Families was designed to make it easy for organizations to run engaging, high-quality support groups (in-person or online). Our curriculum is a turnkey resource developed to help facilitators provide support and training while building community, reducing caregiver stress, and helping caregivers feel more confident in parenting children exposed to trauma. In 2020, Creating a Family worked to create, pilot and test the new Interactive Training & Support for Foster/Adoptive/Kinship Families Subscription Service. Ten curricula were developed in 2020 and offered to the public in 2021. During 2021 an additional 10 curricula were developed. In 2022, 5 more curricula were developed. In 2023 we launched a new website to house our Curriculum, making it more accessible and user friendly to organizations running support groups for foster, adoptive and kinship families. The Interactive Training & Support Curricula provides resources and wraparound services with the goal of increasing the number of parent support groups available to families by making it easier to facilitate and maintain high-quality…
$46,242 spent$32,171 earned by the program11% of program spendingIn 2023, Creating a Family continued to develop the Prenatal Exposure Training for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Parents. This training is designed to help participants recognize children who may have been impacted by prenatal exposure to alcohol and drugs and trains them on best practices for working with these children and youth to help them thrive. The training was delivered over three sessions and includes a video with embedded video interviews with experts from UNC's Knowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Duke University School of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, the Fullerton Genetics Center, and foster parents with lived experience raising children with prenatal substance exposure. Further, the videos included animated videos that we created to help explain and animate complex concepts. The training was piloted with two additional randomized control studies and presented online. The piloted training was delivered by a staff facilitator and included group discussion for each session. Participants had access to an online resource library to reference further materials on topics presented during the training, including diagnosis, strategies, and further resources. The training…
$78,344 spent19% of program spendingAnother invaluable program service is the Creating a Family podcast. This free, weekly, one-hour production, hosted by Executive Director, Dawn Davenport, covers topics in the fields of adoption, foster care and kinship care with guests that are specialists in their respective fields. There were 261,560 listens during 2023 and 2.96 million listens since the podcast's inception. In 2023, we added a second weekly, short-form publication, Weekend Wisdon. This 5 to 10 minute episod is designed to answer listeners' questions.
$31,518 spent8% of program spendingThe Creating a Family website, www.CreatingaFamily.org is the focal point of our organization. Our mission is to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them in raising children exposed to trauma, including prenatal exposure, by creating expert-based and trauma-informed resources and training for parents and professionals. Our website is where we house the resources and trainings we create. In 2022, Creating a Family averaged 56,900+ average page views monthly. There is no charge for the vast majority of resources provided on the site.
$29,644 spent7% of program spendingCreating a Family provides online courses for adoptive, foster, and kinship parents and continuing education courses for social workers in the child welfare field. We have 75+ parent courses for pre-adoptive, in-service foster, and post-adoption families. Each course is 1 hour and comes with a Certificate of Completion. Our courses align with the federal requirements for international adoption and various state-specific pre-adoption education requirements. Our courses address topics relevant to adoptive, foster, and kinship families. We also offer 18 courses accredited by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) to offer continuing education (CE) credit for social workers. In 2023, more than 33,359 courses were enrolled.
$46,975 spent$268,321 earned by the program11% of program spendingCreating a Family reaches out to individuals through its weekly adoption, foster care, and kinship newsletter to 7,900 subscribers and through its broad exposure to the social networks that it maintains on Facebook (9,400+ followers and over 11,000 followers of the Support Group page), Twitter (6,500+) and Pinterest (6,500+) followers. Creating a Family also reaches out to adoption and foster professionals through its weekly newsletter to 2,900 subscribers and through LinkedIn (1,383) followers for the Executive Director.
$40,139 spent$14,440 earned by the program10% of program spendingIn 2023, Creating a Family further expanded our outreach and support services to relative caregivers by developing and piloting a kinship navigator program in Western North Carolina. The kinship navigator provides information and support in English and Spanish to grandparents raising grandchildren and other kinship caregivers. In addition to a toll-free support line, Creating a Family launched both in-person and online support groups providing opportunities for peer support and learning. We also continued to provide information on legal permanency options to North Carolina kinship caregivers through NCkinshipfamilies.org. This is a multimedia website that we developed featuring expert videos, kinship caregiver videos, tip sheets, and other resources to help relative caregivers consider their best options when making permanency decisions. The website also offers links and information on how to find an attorney and additional legal resources. All of our programs for relative caregivers are developed with input from our Kinship Advisory Board made up of relative caregivers from across the state of North Carolina.
$139,039 spent$66,949 earned by the program33% of program spendingCreating a Family provided weekly content creation in the form of articles and corresponding images for an outside organization to publish on their website. Content covered a range of topics developed in partnership with the organization to support grandparents raising grandchildren and other relative caregivers in their target area.
$5,504 spent$28,000 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $417,405.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $240k to $534k (+122%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of CREATING A FAMILY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 5 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
Dawn Davenport
Executive Director, Board Director
Board chair
Gina Samuels
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $94k → $302k.
2 of 9 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 CREATING A FAMILY’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
CREATING A FAMILY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 58% · 2021 51% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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
40% of CREATING A FAMILY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
CREATING A FAMILY draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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
CREATING A FAMILY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CREATING A FAMILY
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
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 CREATING A FAMILY: 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 CREATING A FAMILY?
- CREATING A FAMILY (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,142,438 to it, the largest being Jockey Being Family Foundation Ltd ($887,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATING A FAMILY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,142,438 in grants to CREATING A FAMILY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATING A FAMILY?
- Jockey Being Family Foundation Ltd is the largest funder on record, with $887,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATING A FAMILY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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