Grants for foster care systems

Name: Top 25 grants made to foster care organizations
Creator: Cause IQ
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735 foster care organizations received at least $112.7 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 1,530 grants made from 1,055 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,550. Of these 1,055 foundations, 85% made just a single grant to foster care systems, and 3% made grants to four or more foster care systems. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$112,730,169

Total grant dollars given to foster care systems

1,530

Number of grants made annually to foster care systems

1,055

Number of grantmakers funding foster care systems

$1,550

Median grant size to foster care systems

Foundations that support foster care organizations

Out of all grants made to foster care systems, 79% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 97% of the dollar-value of grants to foster care systems. Foundations funding foster care systems also made grants to homeless shelters, youth development programs, food banks, multiservice human service organizations, and youth service organizations.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	836
Medium	95
Large	123

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	42
Private	854
Corporate	55
Other	104

Grants made

Grants made to foster care systems	Number of grantmakers
1	897
2-3	124
4-10	24
11+	10

Top 10 foundations supporting foster care organizations

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to foster care systems	Number of grants made to foster care systems	Median grant size
Ticket to Dream Foundation	CA	National	12.6%	43	$1,697
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.1%	33	$1,725
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.1%	27	$200
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	24	$200
Westrock Foundation	GA	National	0.0%	21	$33
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	0.1%	20	$1,958
Synchrony Foundation	CT	National	0.1%	17	$500
Carmax Foundation	VA	National	0.2%	15	$1,000
Community Foundation of North Texas (NTXCF)	TX	State	0.2%	14	$1,750
Arkansas Community Foundation	AR	State	0.0%	14	$1,125

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Foster care organizations grantees

Foster care systems with more than $5 million in total revenues received 96% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 57% of all foster care systems.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	1,516
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	14

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,000
$100k-$500k	$2,500
$500k-$1M	$2,500
$1M-$5M	$1,802
>$5M	$1,500

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
California	260
Florida	189
Texas	122
Washington	112
Other	847

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
Los Angeles	150
Seattle	105
New York City	88
Miami	77
Other	1,061

Top 25 grants made to foster care systems

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Youth Villages	$14,000,000	To Support Scaling Plan	Blue Meridian Partners
Buckner International	$13,268,992	Cash	Buckner Foundation
Buckner International	$13,268,992	General Support	Buckner Foundation
Buckner International	$12,428,000	Cash	Buckner Foundation
Buckner International	$12,428,000	General Support	Buckner Foundation
The Children's Home Society of Florida	$9,359,853	Dependency Case Management	ChildNet
D.A. Blodgett - St John's	$6,009,615	Payment for Program Service Expenses	West Michigan Partnership for Children
Wellspring Lutheran Services / Lutheran Child & Family Service of Michigan Inc	$5,327,904	Payment for Program Service Expenses	West Michigan Partnership for Children
Camelot Community Care	$4,681,163	Dependency Case Management	Partnership for Strong Families
Progressive Life Center (PLC)	$4,458,126	Program Support	DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation
Eckerd Connects	$4,124,553	Job-Training	Philadelphia Works
Children's Wisconsin (CHW)	$3,644,664	Cash Paid/received	Children's Wisconsin / Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc (CHW)
Children's Wisconsin (CHW)	$3,644,664	Grants To Affiliate	Children's Wisconsin / Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc (CHW)
Youth Crisis Center	$2,739,189	Youth and Family Services	Florida Network of Youth and Family Services
Buckner International	$5,000	Food & Clothing for Dallas	Carrie S Orleans Trust
Wellspring Lutheran Services / Lutheran Child & Family Service of Michigan Inc	$5,000	Community Fund	Otsego Community Foundation
Olive Crest	$5,000	To Support "a Night in Tuscany - Inland & Desert Communities	Inland Empire Community Foundation (TCF)
Texas Center for Child and Family Studies	$5,000	To Support the 2019 Texas Child Care Administrators Conference, Which Is Scheduled To Take Place on September 30 - October 2, 2019 in Austin Texas.	Casey Family Programs
Bethany for Children and Families	$5,000	General Support	Alfaretta Young Tua
Thornwell	$5,000	Unrestricted	Irvin and Connie Pund Foundation
New Alternatives for Children	$5,000	For Donee's Exempt Purpose	The Wahrsager Foundation
Marin Foster Care Association	$5,000	General & Unrestricted	The Upjohn Fund of San Francisco
Apache County Friends of Casa	$5,000	Grant Given in Memory of Peggy Kimball	Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation
The Children's Home Society of Florida	$5,000	General Purpose	The John and Judi O'Steen Family Foundation
Angels Foster Care of Santa Barbara	$5,000	General	The Greene Family Foundation

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Foster care systems" category for this page is determined by the "P32: Foster Care" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.