Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$9,480,767

Total expenses

$9,092,843

Contributions and grants received

$9,245,192

Grants paid

$220,000

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$9,056

Other revenue

$226,519

Total assets, end of year

$16,175,469

Total liabilities, end of year

$3,536,289

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$12,639,180

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$8,284,202

Management and general expenses

$414,606

Fundraising expenses

$394,035

Program service expenses (Part III)

$8,284,202

Program services were 91.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• COMMUNITY SUPPORT - TOGETHER WE RISE HAS MANY PROGRAMS THAT BENEFIT CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE AROUND THE UNITED STATES. OUR GOAL IS TO MAKE THE TRANSITION IN FOSTER CARE EASIER FOR THE CHILDREN WHO ARE IN THE SYSTEM. SINCE CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE ARE TYPICALLY GIVEN 2 TRASH BAGS TO TRANSPORT THEIR BELONGINGS, WE TRY TO GIVE THEM OUR SWEET CASES INSTEAD. A TOGETHER WE RISE SWEET CASE IS A BRIGHT BLUE DUFFEL BAG STUFFED WITH A TEDDY BEAR, A BLANKET, A HYGIENE KIT, A COLORING BOOK, AND CRAYONS, PARTICIPANTS AROUND THE UNITED STATES WILL DECORATE THE SWEET CASES, STUFF THEM, AND THEN DONATE IT BACK INTO THEIR COMMUNITIES TO BENEFIT CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE IN THEIR AREAS. THIS IS OUR BIGGEST PROGRAM, AND IT IS GROWING EVERY YEAR!

  Expenses $1,345,541 · Grants $220,000

• FOSTER CARE SUPPORT: OUR MISSION NECESSITATES THAT WE INVEST MUCH OF OUR TIME AND LIMITED RESOURCES IN COLLABORATION WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS. THIS BRINGS RESOURCES TO AND IMPROVES THE LIVES OF AMERICA'S FOSTER CHILDREN IN ALL 50 STATES. OUR CHALLENGING BUT REWARDING TASK INVOLVES THE TWR TEAM WORKING WITH HUNDREDS OF FOSTER AGENCIES, SOCIAL WORKERS, COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASAS), AND OTHER PARTNERS AS WE USE OUR LIMITED RESOURCES TO BENEFIT FOSTER YOUTH ACROSS THE NATION.WE COORDINATE THE DELIVERY OF GOODS AND SERVICES TO FOSTER KIDS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. WE ALSO SPONSOR FOSTER/ADOPTION FESTIVALS, LEARNING ACTIVITIES TO EDUCATE VOLUNTEERS ON ISSUES, AND ANY AWARENESS ACTIVITY FOCUSED ON YOUTH IN FOSTER CARE.

  Expenses $6,377,892

• TRANSITION SUPPORT - WHEN CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE AGE OUT OF THE SYSTEM, SOME OF THEM DON'T HAVE THE RESOURCES TO TRAVEL TO SCHOOL, WORK, OR THEIR HOMES, MOST YOUTHS THAT HAVE AGED OUT OF THE SYSTEM ARE LEFT WITHOUT ANY MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION, SO TO FIX THIS, TOGETHER WE RISE DONATES BIKES TO CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE. WE HAVE PARTICIPANTS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES HOST BUILD A BIKE EVENTS WHERE TEAMS USE TOOLS TO BUILD BIKES AND THEN DONATE THEM BACK INTO THEIR COMMUNITY. PARTICIPANTS CAN CHOOSE BETWEEN 3 SIZES OF BIKES SO CHILDREN OF ALL AGES CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM. TOGETHER WE RISE WANTS TO ENSURE THAT CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE CHILDHOOD BY GETTING TO OWN SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS A BIKE. WE PARTICULARLY WANT TO HELP OLDER CHILDREN WHO ARE CLOSE TO THE AGING OUT AGE SO THEY ARE ABLE TO ATTEND SCHOOL, GET TO THE GROCERY STORE, AND FIND EMPLOYMENT WITH A RELIABLE TRANSPORTATION METHOD.

  Expenses $560,769

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

16 November 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202333209349303913

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