Ohio · Nonprofit
FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES INC
FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES INC (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $777,167 to it, the largest being UPWARD BOUND YOUTH ($337,250). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $305k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $777k
- Net assets
- $740k
What Fostering Family Ministries Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is to mobilize, organize, educate, and equip local churches and families to compassionately provide faith-based foster services in ashland county, ohio.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Connecting children and families in foster care to care teams through local churches. Providing trauma informed training and tools to support caring for children from hard places. Coordinating the provision of appreciation events, material needs, assistance and scholarships for recreational and enriching activities. Supporting children services with trauma informed training and encouragement through appreciation.
$101,635 spent$81,160 earned by the program41% of program spendingDelivering training and coaching to assist churches launch and lead foster care ministries which meet the needs in their communities. Equipping churches with the tools to create awareness, recruit supported foster parents, provide material support, and volunteer care teams to serve the needs of children and families in foster care. Increasing church ministries understanding and ability to provide trauma informed care while serving vulnerable children and families in foster care with the love and hope of jesus.
$96,798 spent$81,204 earned by the program39% of program spendingProviding trust based relational intervention training, tools and coaching to all those engaged in the foster care system from children services, court, families, schools, mental health professionals and churches. Ensuring the system is trauma competent and more effective in serving vulnerable children and families in foster care; understanding when everyone is using shared language and shared tools, we will see a greater impact on those whose lives are distrupted due to trauma.
$51,892 spent$50,066 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $250,325.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $302k to $604k (+100%).
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.
7% of FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $245k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 MINISTRIES INC’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 MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 62% · 2019 80% · 2020 71% · 2021 34% · 2022 29% · 2023 63% — 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
75% of FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
86% of FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 MINISTRIES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES INC
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: 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 MINISTRIES INC?
- FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES INC (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $777,167 to it, the largest being UPWARD BOUND YOUTH ($337,250). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $777,167 in grants to FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES INC?
- UPWARD BOUND YOUTH is the largest funder on record, with $337,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 11 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