North Carolina · Nonprofit
Foster Village Charlotte
Foster Village Charlotte (North Carolina) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $679,702 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($122,050). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $933k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $680k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Foster Village Charlotte does
Mission
Foster Village Charlotte creates connection with dignity for children and families experiencing foster care by meeting urgent needs, providing educational and emotional support, and advocating as a collective community voice for children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
CONNECT-Ensuring families caring for children in foster care are connected to each other and to ongoing, holistic support through therapist-led and peer driven support groups, educational trainings, family connection events, and one-on-one support. FVC operates the Connection Cottage, a home-like environment for family visitations including a sensory play studio.
$290,152 spent$24,796 earned by the program50% of program spendingEQUIP-Ensuring children in foster care in the Charlotte, NC metro area have their needs met with dignity through tangible support including, but not limited to, brand new clothing and other essentials, car seats, beds, equipment, etc. as they enter care. FVC provides free sensory tools to children in the child welfare system to promote regulation and attachment.
$172,754 spent$20,416 earned by the program30% of program spendingADVOCATE-Ensuring advocacy for children in foster care through community education classes and awareness events as well as being providers of third-party feedback to child welfare related agencies.
$117,387 spent$750 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $580,293.
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.
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 $492k to $898k (+83%).
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: 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Foster Village Charlotte’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $92k → $119k.
9 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 Village Charlotte’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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 Village Charlotte 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
77% 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 Village Charlotte.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 53% · 2020 46% · 2021 28% · 2022 20% · 2023 21% — 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
45% of Foster Village Charlotte's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
54% of Foster Village Charlotte'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 $309k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $370k 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 Village Charlotte holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Foster Village Charlotte
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Village Charlotte?
- Foster Village Charlotte (North Carolina) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $679,702 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($122,050). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Foster Village Charlotte have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $679,702 in grants to Foster Village Charlotte, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Foster Village Charlotte?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $122,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Foster Village Charlotte 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.
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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 2019–2025), and the filings of 33 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