Foster Kinship
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454242425
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Phone
- 7025469988
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,149,253
- Expenses
- $3,363,574
- Assets
- $4,041,811
- Liabilities
- $935,670
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Laura Alison Caliendo (Executive Director)
- Nancy Myster (Board President)
Highest reported compensation
- Laura Alison Caliendo (Executive Director): $134,555 total reported compensation
- Leah Dods (Deputy Director): $121,042 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Foster Kinship supports all kinship families throughout Nevada. We assist grandparents, relatives, and fictive kin who are raising children through five core programs: 1- Enhanced Kinship Navigator Program - Provides intensive support to kinship families both inside and outside the formal child welfare system. Services include case management, legal and financial guidance, and access to a kinship resource center, respite/childcare services, and the Kinship Training Institute. 2- Thriving Together Academy - Delivers evidence-based education and training to kinship, adoptive, and parent-led households to improve parenting skills, trauma understanding, and child development outcomes. 3- Marcie's Heart - Offers tangible support such as clothing, beds, diapers, and other critical supplies to kinship families in need. 4- Child and Youth Interventions - Provides direct services to children, including trauma-informed respite care, behavioral support, and enrichment programming. 5- Advocacy
What it reported doing in 2025
Foster Kinship provides a comprehensive support program for relative caregivers raising children outside the formal foster care system. Services include case management, legal and financial guidance, free essential goods, trauma-informed caregiver education, respite care, behavioral consultations, youth programs, mental health navigation, and policy advocacy. All services are provided at no cost to ensure children can remain safely and stably with family.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.5%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.9%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 35.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.5% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $135K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 44 of 44 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.