Colorado · Nonprofit
FOSTER SOURCE
FOSTER SOURCE (Colorado) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,061,805 to it, the largest being ALLEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($190,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $252k
What Foster Source does
Mission
Our mission is to promote healing for children and families impacted by child welfare through meaningful, transformational resources, community and support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Foster Source rebranded to Foster Source dba be the source in 2025. The agency served well over 4000 foster and kinship caregivers and children, as well as natural parents working to reunify with holistic, wrap-around services that promote healing. In the learning source, 3127 class surveys were received from 1438 caregivers that were active in 2025. 636 unique families submitted 1119 requests for hard good items to make placement possible or to maintain placements. Items provided most were diapers, mattresses and car seats. In therapeutic services, 124 new caregivers began receiving therapy, making the total of all time caregivers referred to therapy to 868. Be the source sponsored 1406 therapy sessions in 2025. Eight equine therapy labs were hosted and included a total of 57 participants. 113 unique users registered in the respite source and 316 possible respite matches were made. 53 families with 64 children in care used the agency's family advocacy services. 14 lived expert ambassadors hosted 100 monthly peer to peer support events for over 1000 caregivers and over 2000 children.
$1,206,799 spent$11,580 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,206,799.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $136k to $318k (+134%).
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: 2020 32% · 2021 2% · 2022 41% · 2023 46% · 2024 39% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FOSTER SOURCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $43k → $133k.
13 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 SOURCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 SOURCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
66% 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 SOURCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 58% · 2019 78% · 2020 33% · 2021 46% · 2022 31% · 2023 26% — 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
46% of FOSTER SOURCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
FOSTER SOURCE draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $488k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
FOSTER SOURCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FOSTER SOURCE
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOSTER SOURCE: 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 SOURCE?
- FOSTER SOURCE (Colorado) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,061,805 to it, the largest being ALLEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($190,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOSTER SOURCE have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,061,805 in grants to FOSTER SOURCE, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOSTER SOURCE?
- ALLEN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOSTER SOURCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 38 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing