Ohio · Nonprofit
FOSTERING FURTHER
FOSTERING FURTHER (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,653 to it, the largest being LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ($150,252). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $283k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $254k
- Net assets
- $416k
What Fostering Further does
Mission
Fostering Further's mission is to support foster families, appreciate foster caseworkers, encourage emancipating youth, and show foster kids they're loved and not forgotten. Our goal is to create a healthy, supportive relationship between community members and those involved in foster care in central ohio.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Foster support/grant a wish - provide financial support for foster children to be able to participate in educational, recreational, and other social or support activities. Conduct activities to promote relief of children in foster care, foster care workers, families participating in foster care, and adults that have aged out of the foster care system.
$24,573 spent18% of program spendingHope landing - provide short-term housing for youth emancipating from foster care.
$55,885 spent$26,338 earned by the program40% of program spendingStarting strong - provide life skill training and support for youth emancipating from foster care.
$57,676 spent42% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $138,134.
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 2020 to 2021, from $195k to $314k (+61%).
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.
90% of FOSTERING FURTHER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 5 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
Yvonne Williams
Executive director
Board chair
Marcee Richardson
President/chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $11k → $49k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 FURTHER’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 FURTHER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 FURTHER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 64% · 2022 41% · 2023 62% — 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 FURTHER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
74% of FOSTERING FURTHER'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 $66k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $188k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 FURTHER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FOSTERING FURTHER
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Starting Strong LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOSTERING FURTHER: 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 FURTHER?
- FOSTERING FURTHER (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,653 to it, the largest being LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ($150,252). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOSTERING FURTHER have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $253,653 in grants to FOSTERING FURTHER, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOSTERING FURTHER?
- LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,252 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOSTERING FURTHER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 12 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