Texas · Nonprofit
FOSTERING FAMILY
FOSTERING FAMILY (Texas) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $866,205 to it, the largest being THE CHILDREN'S FUND INC ($235,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $823k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $866k
- Net assets
- $202k
What Fostering Family does
Mission
Fostering Family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2022 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The Riverside Project has discontinued the Children Without Placement Program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Core initiatives of The Riverside Project include:Response Network: a program that connects the needs of vulnerable families to community partners through The Riverside Project who are willing to serve. Fostering Family utilized the CarePortal platform from June 2020 until March 2021. Beginning in April 2021, Fostering Family launched The Response Network as an alternative to using the CarePortal platform to meet the needs of our community. As a result, 1,148 individuals were served through these initiatives in FY23. See Schedule O.Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) Training: an initiative to train professionals in attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention to meet the complex needs of children from hard places. 302 professionals were trained in the TBRI for Caregivers curriculum during FY23. Church and Community Engagement: We equip and mobilize congregations and community stakeholders to 1) identify and support the needs of vulnerable children and families in their congregations, 2) mobilize their communities to serve their neighborhoods, and 3) work collaboratively to maximize impact. During FY23, 92 church leaders attended our Church Leader Training.
$338,936 spentof which $3,945 as grants$22,038 earned by the program80% of program spendingThe Babysitting Collaborative is a stream-lined, multi-agency certification course for foster care babysitters. This program provides care and support to current foster and kinship families. It also grows the network of people relationally connected to families caring for children in the foster care system. This program also provides an opportunity to facilitate collaboration between certified child placing agencies (CPAs).Since July 2020, the Babysitter Certification Training program has utilized a portal system for documentation management and virtual training. Additionally, we provide monthly in-person CPR Skills Check-Offs. In FY23, 251 babysitters were certified.
$32,464 spent8% of program spendingThe Coalition of Child Serving Sectors (CCSS) is a Community-Based Readiness Initiative spearheaded by the Texas Alliance of Child and Family Services (TACFS) in conjunction with the DePelchin Children's Center. Our Executive Director chaired the Provider Workgroup of this initiative and helped to develop two collaborative efforts to address specific areas of concern in our local child welfare system, including 1) Keeping Families Together: A Comprehensive Framework to Address Barriers that Cause Kinship Families to Delay, Decline or Discontinue the Foster Parent Licensing Process, and 2) RTC/GRO Learning Community: Transforming Residential Interventions in Region 6.See Schedule O.Through these initiatives, we worked with other organizations to provide monthly information sessions for kinship families, provided support to meet the needs of kinship families, and hosted an 8-week book study, trauma-informed training, and collaborative calls for congregate care providers.
$53,952 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $425,352.
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 2023 to 2024, from $577k to $151k (−74%).
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 3% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FOSTERING FAMILY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% 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
Amber Knowles
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $10k → $221k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 FOSTERING FAMILY’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
FOSTERING FAMILY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
71% 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 FOSTERING FAMILY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 98% · 2020 56% · 2021 34% · 2022 35% · 2023 68% — 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
100% of FOSTERING FAMILY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
88% of FOSTERING FAMILY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $268k 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
FOSTERING FAMILY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,668 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FOSTERING FAMILY
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOSTERING FAMILY: 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 FOSTERING FAMILY?
- FOSTERING FAMILY (Texas) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $866,205 to it, the largest being THE CHILDREN'S FUND INC ($235,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOSTERING FAMILY have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $866,205 in grants to FOSTERING FAMILY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOSTERING FAMILY?
- THE CHILDREN'S FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOSTERING FAMILY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 26 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