California · Nonprofit
Raise A Child Incorporated
Raise A Child Incorporated (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,093,295 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($555,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $830k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $250k
What Raise A Child Incorporated does
Mission
To inspire and encourage caring people to nurture children in foster care.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Raise a child, inc. Recruits, educates, and nurtures supportive relationships equally with all prospective foster and adoptive parents while partnering with agencies to improve the process of advancing children in the foster system to safe, loving, and permanent homes. The 501(c)(3) organizations mission is building loving families for children in the foster system. Raise a childs vision is to be the nationwide leader in the recruitment and support of lgbtq and all prospective parents interested in building families through fostering and adopting to meet the needs of the over 437,000 children in the foster care system. As of this date, raiseachild is serving a database of over 23,000 current and prospective foster and adoptive individuals and families.raise a childs activities include findingand then supportingpeople who are interested in becoming foster/adoptive parents. As a result, raiseachild advances foster and adoptive parents from inquiry to finish training at a rate that is four times greater than the national average. Raise a child works with its partner agencies to design, produce and manage multimedia advertising and outreach campaigns through social media, radio,…
$757,620 spent100% of program spendingEducational programs: raise a child produces foster and adoption informational programs to support, educate, and motivate prospective parents. These events feature a diverse panel of parents who share their foster and adoption experience and advice with new prospective parents.
Parent advocate program: the raise a child parent advocate program is a unique complementary service designed to advance prospective foster and adoptive parents with their family building goals. This program includes personal mentor services, a nationwide referral network, and proprietary software case management program that enables raiseachild to follow and support parents throughout the process. From orientation to training and throughout the child matching process, raise a childs parent advocates assist with concerns and questions.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $757,620.
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 2019 to 2020, from $287k to $651k (+127%).
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: 2019 36% · 2021 32% · 2022 25% · 2023 39% · 2024 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Raise A Child Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $213k → $246k.
10 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Raise A Child Incorporated’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
Raise A Child Incorporated has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 40% · 2019 34% · 2020 17% · 2021 26% · 2022 56% · 2023 30% — 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
56% of Raise A Child Incorporated's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
78% of Raise A Child Incorporated's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $222k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Raise A Child Incorporated has grown faster than half 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
Government funding Raise A Child Incorporated receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $13
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 Raise A Child Incorporated
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 Raise A Child Incorporated: 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 Raise A Child Incorporated?
- Raise A Child Incorporated (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,093,295 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($555,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Raise A Child Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,093,295 in grants to Raise A Child Incorporated, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Raise A Child Incorporated?
- CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $555,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Raise A Child Incorporated 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.
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 31 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