Foster Village Memphis
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843594438
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Memphis, TN, USA
- Phone
- 9013677937
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $98,089
- Expenses
- $119,106
- Assets
- $19,344
- Liabilities
- $21,017
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Holly Mitchener (Board Chair)
- Matthew and Anteelah Love (Board Member)
- Grant and Casey Caldwell (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
Mission Foster Village Memphis equips, connects, and advocates for children and families in foster care, adoption, and kinship care. We walk alongside caregivers with practical resources, trauma-informed support, and a compassionate community, helping families navigate some of the most difficult seasons with a strong village around them. Vision Our vision is a Midsouth community where every child and family in the child welfare system is supported, empowered, and surrounded by more than enough-more than enough resources, more than enough families ready to welcome children, and more than enough connection to ensure lasting stability from placement to permanency and beyond.
What it reported doing in 2025
This year, we have seen God's faithfulness and guidance in profound ways across Foster Village Memphis. What Went Well: Our caregiver gatherings and TEEN Connect programs have grown, creating spaces where families and teens feel supported, valued, and empowered. Volunteers and church partners, like Christ Methodist Church, have stepped in generously with time, resources, and expertise, helping us meet the immediate needs of children entering foster care. Meal Train initiatives have provided practical, tangible support to families during times of transition, demonstrating care and fostering deeper community connections. Relationships within our village have strengthened, with caregivers investing in others and teens forming meaningful connections that reflect the love and hope of Christ. Challenges Faced: Funding remains critically low, which has limited our capacity to expand programs and sustain operations at full strength. Recruiting and onboarding the right leaders for new caregiver gatherings has been slower than anticipated, highlighting the ongoing need for committed, Spirit-led partners. Significant Achievements & Celebrations: We successfully launched additional TEEN Connect sessions, giving more teenagers opportunities to experience community, mentorship, and joy. Meal Train continues to provide crucial support, ensuring families feel cared for and less overwhelmed during critical times. Families and volunteers have begun paying it forward, mentoring others and growing the village of support organically. Through prayer, partnership, and perseverance, we continue to see children experience stability, belonging, and healing, and caregivers growing in confidence and hope-even on their most challenging days. Overall, we see God at work through relationships, generosity, and transformation. His guidance sustains our mission, allowing us to equip, connect, and advocate for families while building a stronger, faith-filled village for children in foster care, adoption, and kinship care.
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. 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: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.3%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 20.9%; rating input score 21
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21.4%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.09; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.8% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -53.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 25.3% of revenue deployed · 20.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K 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 25/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.