Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$3,327,432

Total expenses

$7,286,162

Contributions and grants received

$2,223,029

Grants paid

$1,535,058

Program service revenue

$986,377

Investment income

$118,026

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$7,998,381

Total liabilities, end of year

$438,124

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$7,560,257

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$5,783,601

Management and general expenses

$975,798

Fundraising expenses

$526,763

Program service expenses (Part III)

$5,783,601

Program services were 79.4% 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 · 2025

• Foster America advanced work across the child and family well-being field by partnering with communities, public agencies, lived experts, and cross-sector leaders to strengthen how families are supported before unnecessary child welfare involvement occurs.In Colorado, Foster America supported partners in launching the 211 Warmline pilot, a voluntary pathway that gives mandated reporters an alternative to making a child protection report when a family's needs do not require investigation. Through the Warmline, callers can speak with a trained community navigator who connects families to local resources such as housing assistance, food support, mental health care, financial help, and parenting support. The pilot serves Boulder, Gilpin, and Pueblo counties and was designed with community partners, parents with lived experience, and government leaders to help families access support earlier, with dignity and trust.Foster America also supported OPT-In for Families, a multi-site initiative in Kentucky, Oregon, South Carolina, and Washington, D.C., focused on creating new voluntary pathways for families with early signals of need. Across sites, partners are designing community-rooted models that make it easier for families to access practical support, navigation, and trusted relationships before challenges deepen or formal systems become involved. Foster America helps coordinate partners, facilitate cross-site learning, support advisory members with lived experience, and strengthen implementation across the initiative.Foster America continued to invest in leadership development and capacity building through its Leadership Circles. The Fiscal Leadership Circle equipped public-sector finance leaders with tools, strategies, and peer learning to better align funding with prevention and family-centered practice. The National Leadership Circle supported leaders with lived expertise in child welfare and adjacent family-serving systems to advance transformation projects, elevate lived experience, and champion more just and equitable approaches for children, youth, and families.Across these efforts, Foster America shared learning, convened leaders, and elevated lived and professional expertise to build momentum for a more just and equitable child and family well-being field.

  Expenses $5,783,601 · Grants $1,535,058 · Revenue $986,377

As filed on the 2025 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

• Children's Trust of South Carolina

  $500,000

  OPT-In

• President and fellows of Harvard College

  $383,877

  OPT-In

• Chapin Hall Center for Children

  $267,022

  OPT-In

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2025

Filed

3 August 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.2

Source object

202612159349300176

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