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Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina

Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,606 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($68,015). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.2M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$197k
Net assets
$264k
2/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina does

Mission

Educate, advocate, support and promote parternships that lead to positive outcomes for children, youth and resource families of NC.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Through our partnership with Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina (FFA-NC), we have successfully expanded the on the ground direct support in North Carolina, with a focus on mobilizing local churches, non-profit organizations and corporations to meet the needs of children and families in crisis. Our efforts have resulted in the following key accomplishments during the tax year:

    $590,541 spentof which $3,195 as grants$402,444 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Expansion of Love Fund: --Launched statewidefacilitating direct community support for vulnerable children and families in times of need, including help with back to school, Christmas and other times during the year --Increased the number of participating churches, nonprofits and corporations, significantly broadening our network of responders.

  3. Resource Distribution with Foster Care Closets: Enabled the distribution of essential resources such as beds, food, clothing, educational supplies, and home repairs, contributing to the stability of resource families. Training and Support: Provided training to Department of Social Services (DSS) staff, resource parents, and church volunteers statewide to promote the need of foster parents, funding for financial help, and topic specific training as requested by resource parents/professionals.

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $590,541.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($72k) Expenses 100 ($66k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2020 Revenue 92 ($66k) Expenses 66 ($44k) Net assets 434 ($29k)2021 Revenue 283 ($205k) Expenses 147 ($98k) Net assets 2029 ($136k)2022 Revenue 397 ($287k) Expenses 391 ($260k) Net assets 2432 ($163k)2023 Revenue 1042 ($752k) Expenses 960 ($637k) Net assets 4143 ($278k)2024 Revenue 1601 ($1.2M) Expenses 1762 ($1.2M) Net assets 3940 ($264k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (1601)Expenses (1762)Net assets (3940)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $167k to $326k (+95%).

$7k
$29k
$140k
$167k
$326k
$296k
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 23% · 2022 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

72% of Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’19
$22k
’20
$107k
’21
$27k
’22
$115k
’23
−$14k
’24
2.3
months of
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

Susan Gaile Osborne

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed14141013
Joined·+2+1+4
No longer listed·251
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10 → $74.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 Family Alliance of North Carolina’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 Family Alliance of North Carolina leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

68% 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 Family Alliance of North Carolina.

35%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

55% of Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $88k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

NC
FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)74% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina

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In North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 16%Fundraising 2%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

61%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina?
Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,606 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($68,015). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $196,606 in grants to Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $68,015 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 8 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