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SYNERGY FAMILY FOSTER CARE INC

SYNERGY FAMILY FOSTER CARE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $180 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($180). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$957k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$180
Net assets
$76k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Synergy Family Foster Care Inc does

Mission

To train and license foster and adoptive parents. Provide case management for children.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To train and license foster and adoptive parents (approximately 15 parents per year). To place and provide case management to children in the licensed homes (approximately 60 children per year). Provide on-going training to support the foster or adoptive parents.

    $996,475 spent$948,643 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $996,475.

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 ($942k) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($219k)2018 Revenue 112 ($1.1M) Expenses 106 ($1.2M) Net assets 51 ($111k)2019 Revenue 121 ($1.1M) Expenses 107 ($1.2M) Net assets 29 ($63k)2020 Revenue 141 ($1.3M) Expenses 112 ($1.2M) Net assets 68 ($149k)2021 Revenue 122 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 89 ($194k)2022 Revenue 126 ($1.2M) Expenses 110 ($1.2M) Net assets 75 ($165k)2023 Revenue 130 ($1.2M) Expenses 108 ($1.2M) Net assets 90 ($197k)2024 Revenue 105 ($987k) Expenses 94 ($1.0M) Net assets 66 ($143k)2025 Revenue 102 ($957k) Expenses 93 ($1.0M) Net assets 35 ($76k)
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Revenue (102)Expenses (93)Net assets (35)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 2017 to 2018, from $363k to $252k (−31%).

$363k
$252k
$217k
$303k
$302k
$271k
$301k
$248k
$206k
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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: 2020 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of SYNERGY FAMILY FOSTER CARE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$164k
’17
−$108k
’18
−$48k
’19
$86k
’20
$45k
’21
−$29k
’22
$32k
’23
−$54k
’24
−$68k
’25
0.3
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.

Board chair

Marvin Shaw

Board president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed777778666
Joined·+2+1+0+1+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·21010200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $41 → $38.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SYNERGY FAMILY FOSTER CARE INC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of SYNERGY FAMILY FOSTER CARE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SYNERGY FAMILY FOSTER CARE INC receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $180 to it.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

OH

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Questions and answers

Who funds SYNERGY FAMILY FOSTER CARE INC?
SYNERGY FAMILY FOSTER CARE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $180 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($180). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SYNERGY FAMILY FOSTER CARE INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $180 in grants to SYNERGY FAMILY FOSTER CARE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SYNERGY FAMILY FOSTER CARE INC?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $180 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SYNERGY FAMILY FOSTER CARE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 1 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