Maryland · Nonprofit
VOICE FOR ADOPTION
VOICE FOR ADOPTION (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,542 to it, the largest being DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ($107,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $96k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $198k
- Net assets
- $84k
What Voice for Adoption does
Mission
Voice for Adoption exists to help promote the adoption of the estimated 113000 children in the public child welfare system who are waiting to be adopted by bringing the adoption community together to provide clear and consistent information about the adoption of children in foster care and educating the public and decision-makers about the plight of these children
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Coordinating Communication and Dissemination of Information in the Adoption Field VFA informs the public the media and decision-makers about the needs of children in the foster care system who are waiting to be adopted VFA writes and distributes an e-mail newsletter that goes out to about 1000 recipients to alert them about current issues legislative initiatives and policy and practice within both the adoption field and child welfare community as a whole especially as they relate to special needs adoption efforts VFA now has over 2500 followers on social media including families frontline workers and policy makers
$68,377 spent78% of program spendingThe State Advisory Council is a convening of state adoption and permanency directors and other public agency staff from 46 states assembled by Voice for Adoption to develop consensus-based federal recommendations on adoption and permanency issues affecting children and youth in foster care
$19,000 spentof which $19,000 as grants22% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $87,377.
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 2023 to 2024, from $82k to $147k (+78%).
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.
93% of VOICE FOR ADOPTION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Patrick Lester
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $16.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 VOICE FOR ADOPTION’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.
How concentrated its funding is
VOICE FOR ADOPTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
60% 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 VOICE FOR ADOPTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 26% · 2021 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
VOICE FOR ADOPTION draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
VOICE FOR ADOPTION's revenue fell 33% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like VOICE FOR ADOPTION
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 Maryland
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 VOICE FOR ADOPTION: 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 VOICE FOR ADOPTION?
- VOICE FOR ADOPTION (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,542 to it, the largest being DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ($107,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOICE FOR ADOPTION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $197,542 in grants to VOICE FOR ADOPTION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOICE FOR ADOPTION?
- DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION is the largest funder on record, with $107,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOICE FOR ADOPTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 5 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