Foster Care Essentials Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 880984827
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Franklin, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7742484139
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,892
- Expenses
- $58,423
- Assets
- $27,759
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sharon Bryant (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Sharon Bryant (CEO)
- Melissa Mercon Smith (Secretary)
- Joyce Bardol (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide essentials, free of charge, to families that care for foster/kinship children.
What it reported doing in 2025
Fill-a-backpack event. We provided backpacks to all registered children and they filled them with school supplies. We served 70 children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 14
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 12.4%; rating input score 12
- Program expense ratio: 16.1%; rating input score 16
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 86.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 76.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 80% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 12.4% of revenue deployed · 16.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.