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iFoster Inc

iFoster Inc (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,836,181 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$8.0M
Funders on record
44
Grants received
$15M
Net assets
$2.4M
14/44 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%
01What it does

What iFoster Inc does

Mission

iFoster's mission is to ensure that every child growing up outside of their biological home has the resources and opportunities they need to become successful, independent adults. We provide a free platform of resources for foster care youth, caregivers, and organizations.We create solutions driving collaboration and efficiencies across the child welfare system, and engage the community outside of child welfare to support our nation's most vulnerable children.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. iFoster Success: Scaffolding to self-sufficiency. These include online resources such as self-directed training, employee placements and internships to ensure youth aging out of the foster care system can successfully transition to independence when they leave care.

    $7,032,169 spentof which $2,786,250 as grants$688,352 earned by the program
    84% of program spending
  2. iFoster Resources: Provides equitable access to resources to all children and youth in the foster care system. These include the iFoster Portal of hundreds of resources and services, access to technology such as computers and cell phones, and peer resource navigation.

    $1,010,073 spent
    12% of program spending
  3. iFoster Hope: Closing the resource gap between children in foster care and their peers being raised in biological families. These include cause awareness, funds to meet child and caregiver needs, and the iFoster Well-Being Index.

    $280,576 spent
    3% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,322,818.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($267k)2018 Revenue 148 ($1.9M) Expenses 152 ($1.8M) Net assets 163 ($435k)2019 Revenue 150 ($2.0M) Expenses 178 ($2.1M) Net assets 53 ($142k)2020 Revenue 285 ($3.7M) Expenses 303 ($3.5M) Net assets 133 ($355k)2021 Revenue 326 ($4.3M) Expenses 327 ($3.8M) Net assets 291 ($778k)2022 Revenue 780 ($10M) Expenses 376 ($4.4M) Net assets 2474 ($6.6M)2023 Revenue 307 ($4.0M) Expenses 481 ($5.6M) Net assets 1835 ($4.9M)2024 Revenue 763 ($10.0M) Expenses 928 ($11M) Net assets 1542 ($4.1M)2025 Revenue 611 ($8.0M) Expenses 842 ($9.7M) Net assets 915 ($2.4M)
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Revenue (611)Expenses (842)Net assets (915)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $7.3M (+452%).

$336k
$553k
$435k
$2.0M
$1.3M
$7.3M
$5.6M
$6.3M
$2.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 26% · 2020 44% · 2021 52% · 2022 17% · 2023 40% · 2024 72% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

90% of iFoster Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$148k
’17
$168k
’18
−$97k
’19
$213k
’20
$475k
’21
$5.8M
’22
−$1.6M
’23
−$781k
’24
−$1.8M
’25
2.4
months of
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

Serita Cox

CEO

Board chair

Robert Beaudry

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1110101111781012
Joined·+1+4+1+0+1+1+3+2
No longer listed·24005010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $170k → $1.2M.

11 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 iFoster Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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

iFoster Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

58% 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 iFoster Inc.

34%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 45% · 2019 44% · 2020 22% · 2021 82% · 2022 88% · 2023 43% — 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

33% of iFoster Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

91% of iFoster Inc's grant income comes from California funders.

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.7M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

iFoster Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−22% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding iFoster Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.2M on record.

Federal$4.2M
grants $4.2Mcontracts $0
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23
Top agencies
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$4.0M
  • Department of Labor$150k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like iFoster 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds iFoster Inc?
iFoster Inc (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,836,181 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does iFoster Inc have?
IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $14,836,181 in grants to iFoster Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of iFoster Inc?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like iFoster Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 44 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