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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by FOSTERING FAMILY.

Totals

Total revenue
$996,600
Total expenses
$774,227
Contributions and grants received
$972,722
Grants paid
$3,945
Program service revenue
$22,038
Investment income
$1,840
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$577,218
Total liabilities, end of year
$28,547
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$548,671
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$425,352
Management and general expenses
$184,970
Fundraising expenses
$163,905
Program service expenses (Part III)
$425,352

Program services were 54.9% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $972,722

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Training registration

    total $22,038 · related or exempt $22,038

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $1,840 · excluded $1,840

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $3,945 · program services $3,945

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $91,884 · program services $43,415 · management and general $28,522 · fundraising $19,947

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $314,204 · program services $175,341 · management and general $50,727 · fundraising $88,136

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $31,952 · program services $16,481 · management and general $6,714 · fundraising $8,757

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $10,995 · management and general $10,995

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $61,888 · program services $24,309 · management and general $24,950 · fundraising $12,629

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $67,173 · program services $57,236 · management and general $3,520 · fundraising $6,417

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $58,643 · program services $33,814 · management and general $8,553 · fundraising $16,276

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $63,834 · program services $24,741 · management and general $38,585 · fundraising $508

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $10,320 · program services $4,738 · management and general $3,747 · fundraising $1,835

  • 17 · Travel

    total $4,062 · program services $1,972 · management and general $701 · fundraising $1,389

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $50,406 · program services $37,950 · management and general $4,445 · fundraising $8,011

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $2,302 · management and general $2,302

  • 24a · Other expenses: Membership dues

    total $2,619 · program services $1,410 · management and general $1,209

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $252,875 · end of year $267,452

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $87,709 · end of year $309,766

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $368 · end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $13,023 · end of year $28,547

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $1,631

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $260,550 · end of year $222,373

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $65,748 · end of year $326,298

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

Fostering Family dba The Riverside Project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that leads a collaborative network of agencies, congregations, school districts, nonprofits, and passionate individuals working together to transform the foster care system in Houston.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To strengthen Houston's foster families and their communities through training and collaboration.

  • Core initiatives of The Riverside Project include:Response Network: a program that connects the needs of vulnerable families to community partners through The Riverside Project who are willing to serve. Fostering Family utilized the CarePortal platform from June 2020 until March 2021. Beginning in April 2021, Fostering Family launched The Response Network as an alternative to using the CarePortal platform to meet the needs of our community. As a result, 1,148 individuals were served through these initiatives in FY23. See Schedule O.Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) Training: an initiative to train professionals in attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention to meet the complex needs of children from hard places. 302 professionals were trained in the TBRI for Caregivers curriculum during FY23. Church and Community Engagement: We equip and mobilize congregations and community stakeholders to 1) identify and support the needs of vulnerable children and families in their congregations, 2) mobilize their communities to serve their neighborhoods, and 3) work collaboratively to maximize impact. During FY23, 92 church leaders attended our Church Leader Training.

    Expenses $338,936 · Grants $3,945 · Revenue $22,038

  • The Babysitting Collaborative is a stream-lined, multi-agency certification course for foster care babysitters. This program provides care and support to current foster and kinship families. It also grows the network of people relationally connected to families caring for children in the foster care system. This program also provides an opportunity to facilitate collaboration between certified child placing agencies (CPAs).Since July 2020, the Babysitter Certification Training program has utilized a portal system for documentation management and virtual training. Additionally, we provide monthly in-person CPR Skills Check-Offs. In FY23, 251 babysitters were certified.

    Expenses $32,464

  • The Coalition of Child Serving Sectors (CCSS) is a Community-Based Readiness Initiative spearheaded by the Texas Alliance of Child and Family Services (TACFS) in conjunction with the DePelchin Children's Center. Our Executive Director chaired the Provider Workgroup of this initiative and helped to develop two collaborative efforts to address specific areas of concern in our local child welfare system, including 1) Keeping Families Together: A Comprehensive Framework to Address Barriers that Cause Kinship Families to Delay, Decline or Discontinue the Foster Parent Licensing Process, and 2) RTC/GRO Learning Community: Transforming Residential Interventions in Region 6.See Schedule O.Through these initiatives, we worked with other organizations to provide monthly information sessions for kinship families, provided support to meet the needs of kinship families, and hosted an 8-week book study, trauma-informed training, and collaborative calls for congregate care providers.

    Expenses $53,952

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

Listed in Part VII

  • Mark Felder

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Rachel Lake

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Megan Mark

    Secretary through 12/31/2022

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hiji Washington

    Secretary as of 1/1/2023

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Amber Robinson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jennifer Clifford

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rolando Martinez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Colleen McKnight

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chelsea Rebollar

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Amber Knowles

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $82,137
    From this org
    $82,137
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
15 March 2024
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202420759349300422

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