Washington · Nonprofit
FOSTERFUL
FOSTERFUL (Washington) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $617,078 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($105,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $617k
- Net assets
- $165k
What Fosterful does
Mission
Fosterful, a nonprofit organization, is a community of qualified volunteers partnering with social workers and foster caregivers to provide a nurturing environment and a caring companion to children experiencing foster care. Our volunteers keep children occupied and safe, acting as companions when it's needed most through quality childcare both in the foster home and in the child-welfare office.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Caregiver support project: provides comprehensive wraparound support to foster and kinship caregivers. Services include case management and resource concierge for caregivers; a 24/7 crisis hotline with in-person response capability; respite care sourcing; and behavioral case aides who deliver trauma-informed, in-home support for foster children, including positive behavior strategies, crisis intervention, and transportation assistance.heart and home services: strengthens foster and kinship families through skillbuilding, community, and tangible support. Programming includes caregiver and youth workshops (such as textured hair care and teen career development), caregiver collective support groups and appreciation events, seasonal item distributions (halloween costumes, holiday gifts, and school supplies), and hands-on home clean-up projects.
$1,970,167 spent$2,256,403 earned by the program90% of program spendingSidekicks volunteer program: pairs trained volunteers with children in foster care for consistent monthly engagement. Volunteers provide after-school care, transportation assistance, mentoring, and general companionship, offering children a reliable and supportive adult presence.caring companions volunteer program: mobilizes on-call volunteers to support children at critical moments in the child welfare process. Volunteers sit with children during placement and service transitions, provide age appropriate go bags filled with essentials and comfort items, assist caseworkers by engaging with children to facilitate placement, and offer on-site childcare at a partner mental health agency so family members can receive counseling services.
$218,907 spent$250,712 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,189,074.
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 $324k to $504k (+56%).
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: 2021 2% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of FOSTERFUL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 1 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.
Chief executive
Sarah Desjarlais
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $1k → $209k.
10 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 FOSTERFUL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
FOSTERFUL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
36% 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 FOSTERFUL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 28% · 2021 39% · 2022 32% · 2023 37% — 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
29% of FOSTERFUL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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
53% of FOSTERFUL's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $143k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
FOSTERFUL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FOSTERFUL
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 FOSTERFUL: 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 FOSTERFUL?
- FOSTERFUL (Washington) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $617,078 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($105,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOSTERFUL have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $617,078 in grants to FOSTERFUL, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOSTERFUL?
- M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOSTERFUL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 39 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