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Foster the Village Inc

Foster the Village Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $766,324 to it, the largest being GREEN BAY PACKERS FOUNDATION ($247,491). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$336k
Funders on record
34
Grants received
$766k
Net assets
$1.1M
18/34 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Foster the Village Inc does

Mission

Foster the village brightens the lives of children in our-of-home care by providing essential basic needs and community support to ease the foster care journey for them and their caregivers.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Foster the village brightens the lives of children in foster care by providing essential basic needs and community support to ease the transition into foster care for them and their caregivers.

    $128,075 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $128,075.

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 ($35k) Expenses 100 ($12k) Net assets 100 ($35k)2020 Revenue 155 ($55k) Expenses 182 ($21k) Net assets 194 ($69k)2021 Revenue 318 ($112k) Expenses 190 ($22k) Net assets 446 ($158k)2022 Revenue 698 ($246k) Expenses 973 ($114k) Net assets 783 ($278k)2023 Revenue 2185 ($771k) Expenses 1210 ($142k) Net assets 2728 ($968k)2024 Revenue 953 ($336k) Expenses 1553 ($182k) Net assets 3195 ($1.1M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (953)Expenses (1553)Net assets (3195)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 $278k to $1.2M (+314%).

$35k
$69k
$158k
$278k
$1.2M
$1.3M
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: 2024 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

87% of Foster the Village Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$24k
’19
$33k
’20
$90k
’21
$132k
’22
$629k
’23
$154k
’24
18
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

Cheryl Salmon

Executive director

Board chair

Kathy Hartman

Board president- officer

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed151512
Joined·+2+0
No longer listed·23
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $5k → $251k.

7 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 the Village Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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 the Village Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 56%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

37% 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 the Village Inc.

32%
largest funder
56%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2021 76% · 2022 21% · 2023 38% — 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

50% of Foster the Village Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

81% of Foster the Village Inc's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

IL
WI
IN
OH
MO
TX
FL

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

’19
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $271k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 the Village Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin46% · top quartile
Months of reserve17.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)57% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 24%Fundraising 6%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds Foster the Village Inc?
Foster the Village Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $766,324 to it, the largest being GREEN BAY PACKERS FOUNDATION ($247,491). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Foster the Village Inc have?
IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $766,324 in grants to Foster the Village Inc, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Foster the Village Inc?
GREEN BAY PACKERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $247,491 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Foster the Village Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 34 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