Alabama · Nonprofit
FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST
FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,426 to it, the largest being JOE AND MARY ANN CROMEANS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $237k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $207k
What Fostering Together Gulf Coast does
Mission
The purpose of Fostering Together Gulf Coast is to provide resources and support to foster and adoptive families and children in foster care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Foster care resource center: provided clothing, shoes, toiletries, baby equipment, diapers, toys, books, luggage, and birthday gifts to 935 children from 428 families. Over 30,000 items were distributed to these children and families throughout the year.
$112,436 spent65% of program spendingFamily events: hosted events to support families and help build healthy attachments. These included an end of school pool party, easter basket give away, a back to school bash, thanksgiving food baskets, and a christmas giveaway event. 500+ children received easter baskets. 396 backpacks with school supplies were distributed. 101 families received thanksgiving food baskets. 660 children received christmas gifts.
$33,613 spent19% of program spendingParent trainings:helped to recruit and train new foster families. Hosted monthly support group meetings with a monthly training on foster care and adoption related topics. Awarded the tory toomey legacy award to an outstanding foster family in recognition for their years of service to the community.
$26,439 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $172,488.
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 $30k to $108k (+260%).
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: 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST’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. 1 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.
Board chair
Kimberly Richardson
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $5k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 TOGETHER GULF COAST’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 TOGETHER GULF COAST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $426 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 TOGETHER GULF COAST 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 TOGETHER GULF COAST
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST?
- FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,426 to it, the largest being JOE AND MARY ANN CROMEANS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $54,426 in grants to FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST?
- JOE AND MARY ANN CROMEANS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 6 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