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FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC
FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC (Florida) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,680,018 to it, the largest being NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ($3,396,896). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Friends of Foster Children Forever Inc Dba Fostering Success Inc does
Mission
To provide educational and enrichment opportunities that allow each foster child to fulfill their potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Education: -ready for kindergarden - helps our youngest foster children, from infancy to 5 years old, attend quality early learning centers and be prepared to enter kindergarten. Foster children are connected to early learning childcare programs, and many received referrals for developmental assessments. -academic mentoring - provide one-to-one tutoring and guidance to foster children. Academic mentors provide much-needed stability by staying with the child wherever they are placed. The goal is for foster children to do well at school and develop a belief in themselves and their ability to succeed. -scholarships - were established to assist foster children in achieving their educational goals. The scholarship assists those who are or were in foster care to obtain a four-year or two-year degree or a certificate at a technical school anywhere in the country. -thriving after care - fostering success provides classes and assistance for young adults transitioning out of foster care such as cooking, banking, interviewing for a job, housing, transportation, college, and career readiness. Project enrichment: -sports & after school activities - (includes onsite afterschool programs) give…
$1,410,193 spentof which $806,833 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,410,193.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.6M to $2.7M (+62%).
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.
109% of FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Ann Hughes
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Janet Gable
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $410k → $738k.
10 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 80% · 2019 71% · 2020 57% · 2021 59% · 2022 48% · 2023 53% — 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
61% of FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
96% of FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC?
- FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC (Florida) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,680,018 to it, the largest being NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ($3,396,896). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $5,680,018 in grants to FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC?
- NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,396,896 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 33 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