New York · Nonprofit
FAMILIES THRIVE INC
FAMILIES THRIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,050,690 to it, the largest being DALIO FAMILY FUND INC ($1,000,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Families Thrive Inc does
Mission
Families thrive, inc. Is dedicated to finding loving adoptive families for children waiting in foster care. Roughly half a million children in the u.s. Have been removed from unsafe homes, and of these, 120,000 are free for adoption. The organizations seeks to find adoptive homes for america's hardest to place children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
A full service foster care adoption agency placing children waiting for a forever family or in need of a temporary foster home. Families thrive, inc. Educates, trains and recruits prospective foster and adoptive parents for children in the foster care system. State required foster and adoptive services are provided in homes for youth and families. Contracting with numerous nys counties for services, under nys office of family and children services, the organization provides a fee for service program for foster youth.therapeutic support groups and trainings such as model approach to parenting partnerships (mappii/gps) mapp training guides families seeking fostering and adoption to assist in the understanding of the emotional, attachment, behavior and loss associated with the development of building relationships with children in foster care are provided.families thrive also offers a full process for adoptive families that include training, matching/placement practice, and home monitoring.
$1,320,732 spent$1,709,900 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,320,732.
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 2021 to 2022, from $431k to $1.4M (+220%).
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: 2022 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of FAMILIES THRIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 7 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
Lauri Mcknight
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $8k → $133k.
6 of 18 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 FAMILIES THRIVE INC’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
FAMILIES THRIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 FAMILIES THRIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 72% · 2019 59% · 2020 67% · 2021 53% · 2022 84% · 2023 56% — 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
45% of FAMILIES THRIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
FAMILIES THRIVE INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $271k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FAMILIES THRIVE INC has grown faster 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 FAMILIES THRIVE 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 19 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILIES THRIVE INC: 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 FAMILIES THRIVE INC?
- FAMILIES THRIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,050,690 to it, the largest being DALIO FAMILY FUND INC ($1,000,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILIES THRIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,050,690 in grants to FAMILIES THRIVE INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILIES THRIVE INC?
- DALIO FAMILY FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILIES THRIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 18 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