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FOSTERING WISHES

EIN 88-3935030 ALAMO, CA

Revenue 2024
$251,428
Expenses 2024
$231,127

Program services were 99.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P30
Classification
1000
Street
2495 ROYAL OAKS DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Fostering Wishes serves area foster children in the greater East Bay area, California through various programs.

  • Fostering Wishes partners with local foster care agencies to improve childrens quality of life and enable them to be self-sufficient as young adults.

    Expenses $229,217 · Grants $221,589 · Revenue $251,428

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Sabine Lemmo

    Board Chair & President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 40 related

  • Oliva Melaugh

    Director & VP Operations

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15 + 15 related

  • Nicolette Courteau

    Director & VP of External Relations

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15 + 15 related

  • Robert Downum

    Director & VP Finance

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $251,428
    Expenses
    $231,127
    Contributions
    $251,428
    Grants paid
    $221,589
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $260,436
    Expenses
    $185,685
    Contributions
    $260,436
    Grants paid
    $169,356
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $260,436
    Expenses
    $185,685
    Contributions
    $260,436
    Grants paid
    $169,356
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $160,807
    Expenses
    $111,274
    Contributions
    $160,807
    Grants paid
    $108,600
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $114,931
    Expenses
    $101,541
    Contributions
    $114,931
    Grants paid
    $98,867

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.