Delaware · Nonprofit
Fostering Wishes Foundation
Fostering Wishes Foundation (Delaware) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,292 to it, the largest being Maggie and Earl Russell Foundation ($6,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $154k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $100k
What Fostering Wishes Foundation does
Mission
Providing wish birthday holiday and everyday necessity items to children and youth in foster care in order to create meaningful childhood moments and improve their mental and physical health and well-being.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
During the fiscal year ending September 30 2025 Fostering Wishes Foundation provided wish birthday holiday clothing hygiene gift card and everyday necessity items to or for the benefit of children and youth in foster care. Based on the organizations annual impact tracking approximately 831 Wishes items of support were allocated to this reporting period with an estimated value of approximately 50,100. These services helped create meaningful childhood moments and supported the mental and physical health and well-being of youth in foster care.
$74,603 spentof which $74,603 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $74,603.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Donna Storan
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $8k → $1k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Wishes Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
Fostering Wishes Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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: 2022 80% · 2023 97% — growing more concentrated.
“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
Fostering Wishes Foundation draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51 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 Wishes Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 Wishes Foundation: 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 Wishes Foundation?
- Fostering Wishes Foundation (Delaware) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,292 to it, the largest being Maggie and Earl Russell Foundation ($6,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fostering Wishes Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $12,292 in grants to Fostering Wishes Foundation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fostering Wishes Foundation?
- Maggie and Earl Russell Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fostering Wishes Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2025–2025), 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