Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FOSTER CARE ESSENTIALS INC
FOSTER CARE ESSENTIALS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being SPECTRUM HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $28k
What Foster Care Essentials Inc does
Mission
To provide essentials, free of charge, to families that care for foster/kinship children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Summer Footwear, we provided Famous Footwear Gift Cards to all registered children. We served 100 children.
$5,500 spent59% of program spendingFill-a-backpack event. We provided backpacks to all registered children and they filled them with school supplies. We served 70 children.
$1,400 spent15% of program spendingWinter Wear Event. We provided winter wear (jackets, hats, mittens/gloves, and boots) to all registered children. We served 80 children.
$2,500 spent27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $9,400.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $10k to $28k (+170%).
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.
100% of FOSTER CARE ESSENTIALS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sharon Bryant
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Against its field
FOSTER CARE ESSENTIALS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FOSTER CARE ESSENTIALS 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOSTER CARE ESSENTIALS 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 CARE ESSENTIALS INC?
- FOSTER CARE ESSENTIALS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being SPECTRUM HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOSTER CARE ESSENTIALS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to FOSTER CARE ESSENTIALS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of FOSTER CARE ESSENTIALS INC?
- SPECTRUM HEALTH SYSTEMS INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOSTER CARE ESSENTIALS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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