Missouri · Nonprofit
FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS
FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,533,044 to it, the largest being AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES ($27,951,505). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Foster Care Coalition of Greater St Louis does
Mission
Recruitment, training, retention of foster & adoptive parents and providing special events and fundraising for foster children.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Foster care & adoption programs groundbreaking adoption & permanency programs to find safe, nurturing homes for the hardest-to-place children in foster care. Extreme recruitment seeks permanent homes for sibling groups, older youth, children of minority status, and youth with emotional, developmental, or behavioral concerns. 30 days to family applies extreme recruitment methods to children just entering foster care, greatly reducing their time in care, as well as reconnecting them with as many family members as possible. A place to call home is our award-winning partnership with ksdk newschannel 5 wherein children who are legally free for adoption are featured on television in an effort to find their forever family. Finally, the dennis and judy jones foster care and adoption program is the leading recruitment team in our region for new foster parents, providing cutting edge training and comprehensive support for new families.
$5,143,991 spent49% of program spendingSupport services a full suite of support services offered to all foster & adoptive families in the st. Louis metropolitan area to ensure they are able to fulfill the physical, mental, and emotional needs of the children in their care. Family works is a 24/7 crisis intervention service for pre and post-adoptive/guardianship families, ensuring placements do not disrupt, and children do not re-enter foster care. Educational advocacy is a program that ensures foster & adoptive families are able to navigate school systems and resources to help their children be successful learners. Our advocates help with school enrollment, special education, iep's, suspensions, transitions, and more. Finally, family works steps assists caregivers with systems navigation for children who have complex medical and mental health diagnoses.
$5,301,938 spentof which $280,232 as grants51% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,445,929.
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.
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 $10M to $16M (+53%).
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 23% · 2018 21% · 2019 22% · 2020 23% · 2021 21% · 2022 8% · 2023 12% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Melanie Scheetz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $951k → $7.3M.
12 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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
FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 52% · 2019 54% · 2020 40% · 2021 47% · 2022 85% · 2023 79% — 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
56% of FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
94% of FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Organizations like FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Institute for Child Welfare Innovation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS?
- FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,533,044 to it, the largest being AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES ($27,951,505). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $38,533,044 in grants to FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS?
- AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES is the largest funder on record, with $27,951,505 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 74 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