EIN 91-0577487

Amara

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
59
Year formed
1921
Most recent tax filings
2022-12-01
NTEE code, primary
Description
Amara works to ensure that every child in foster care has the love, support and comfort of a committed family as quickly as possible, and for as long as each child needs.
Total revenues
$3,966,386
2022
Total expenses
$4,834,381
2022
Total assets
$9,941,816
2022
Num. employees
59
2022

Program areas at Amara

Resource care program: our resource care programs consist of 3 programmatic areas designed to provide services to children and families impacted by the foster care system. Amara's foster care services, kinship care support, and family connections programs use a reunification-focused approach and recruit, prepare, and/or provide support to adults as they care for children who have been removed from their parents' care. Program staff support caregivers in navigating the foster care system, build relationships with a child's family and community, and obtain the resources and training necessary to ensure the wellbeing of the children in their care. Amara works with families from a broad range of ethnicities, belief systems, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and economic circumstances as they support children throughout their foster care journey. Amara is committed to addressing racial disproportionality within foster care and to maintaining birth family ties whenever possible.
Family preservation programs: our family preservation programs focus on preventative measures to reduce the factors that lead to the separation of children and parents through child welfare system involvement. Amara addresses root causes of child welfare system involvement through our family resource center, which helps families access resources, financial assistance, and concrete goods so that poverty and lack of support do not push families further into crisis. Family preservation programs also provide support to parents who are at a high risk for having their child(ren) removed from their care, parent focus program, as well as to parents who may be fast-tracked towards reunification, early childhood court program. Furthermore, we support parents who have successfully reunified with their children to advocate for system reform and inform parent supportive programming. Family preservation programs also seek to foment and steward the connection between children and their families of origin through supporting post-adoptive families in maintaining openness with children's extended families and supporting biological parents through some of the nuances of open adoption agreements. Lastly, we provide education and peer support groups both virtually and in person to help improve parent and caregiver wellbeing and skill-building, while also supporting people to build supportive peer networks.

Who funds Amara

Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
GrantmakerDescriptionAmount
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund (GSPF)Community & Human Services$500,000
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundFor Grant Recipient's Exempt Purposes$146,750
Satterberg FoundationGeneral Operating Support$125,000
...and 43 more grants received totalling $1,533,497

Personnel at Amara

NameTitleCompensation
Scarlett Aldebot-GreenChief Executive Officer$170,000
Dong NamChief Financial Officer | 206.260.1704$107,603
Maureen SorensonChief Commun / Director$9,292
Ruth TollefsonChief Philanthropy Officer | 206.438.3938$108,244
Amie NewmanDirector of Communications and Outreach | 206.260.1718
...and 19 more key personnel

Financials for Amara

RevenuesFYE 12/2022
Total grants, contributions, etc.$1,502,665
Program services$2,446,466
Investment income and dividends$25,837
Tax-exempt bond proceeds$0
Royalty revenue$0
Net rental income$-10,888
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$18,807
Net income from fundraising events$-38,553
Net income from gaming activities$0
Net income from sales of inventory$0
Miscellaneous revenues$22,052
Total revenues$3,966,386

Form 990s for Amara

Fiscal year endingDate received by IRSFormPDF link
2022-122023-11-13990View PDF
2021-122022-11-14990View PDF
2020-122021-10-11990View PDF
2019-122021-02-17990View PDF
2018-122020-01-13990View PDF
...and 9 more Form 990s

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Data update history
January 4, 2024
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2022
January 3, 2024
Updated personnel
Identified 4 new personnel
December 28, 2023
Received grants
Identified 20 new grant, including a grant for $69,000 from Perigee Fund
December 25, 2023
Used new vendors
Identified 1 new vendor, including
September 27, 2023
Received grants
Identified 2 new grant, including a grant for $40,000 from Medina Foundation
Nonprofit Types
Human service organizationsYouth service charitiesCharities
Issues
Human servicesChildren
Characteristics
Fundraising eventsEndowed supportTax deductible donations
General information
Address
5907 Martin Luther King Way S
Seattle, WA 98118
Metro area
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
County
King County, WA
Website URL
amarafamily.org/ 
Phone
(206) 260-1700
Facebook page
amaraparenting 
IRS details
EIN
91-0577487
Fiscal year end
December
Taxreturn type
Form 990
Year formed
1921
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
P32: Foster Care
NAICS code, primary
623990: Other Residential Care Facilities
Parent/child status
Independent
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