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Foster 2 Home Inc

Foster 2 Home Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,355 to it, the largest being ERNSTEEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2018
$30k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$6k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Foster 2 Home Inc does

Mission

The foundation rescues dogs and places them in permanent homes.

As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.

Program

The foundation rescues dogs from high kill shelters,addresses the medical needs of each rescued dog, andplaces them in foster and permanent homes.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($25k) Expenses 100 ($32k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2018 Revenue 117 ($30k) Expenses 94 ($30k) Net assets 98 ($6k)
20172018
Revenue (117)Expenses (94)Net assets (98)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $7k to $6k (−2%).

$7k
$6k
20172018
Total assets

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.

2017
2018
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Foster 2 Home Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,233 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$6k
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−$99
’18
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2020: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $850 → $755.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Foster 2 Home 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

Foster 2 Home Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 88% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of Foster 2 Home Inc's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Foster 2 Home Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,488 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,488 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2018

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In Illinois

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Foster 2 Home 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 Foster 2 Home Inc?
Foster 2 Home Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,355 to it, the largest being ERNSTEEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Foster 2 Home Inc have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,355 in grants to Foster 2 Home Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Foster 2 Home Inc?
ERNSTEEN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Foster 2 Home Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 3 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