FosterAdopt Connect

Legal name: Fosteradopt Connect Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
431895965
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Independence, MO, US
Phone
(816) 350-0215
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Foster Care

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$23,245,987
Expenses
$26,109,208
Assets
$12,345,423
Liabilities
$3,695,552

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

26 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LORETTA ROSS (PRESIDENT AN)

Highest reported compensation

  • LORETTA ROSS (PRESIDENT AN): $257,596 total reported compensation
  • JENNIFER JOHNSON (COO): $221,489 total reported compensation
  • DAVID VEST (CFO): $188,336 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To strengthen families, support youth, and transform the child welfare system in Missouri and Kansas.

What it reported doing in 2025

Foster adopt connect works with children, youth, and families as they navigate the complexities of the child welfare system. With the help of innovative tools, a dedicated professional staff, and over 20 years of experience working in the Kansas and Missouri foster care systems, we're equipped to connect children with families that provide love, healing, and stability for a brighter future. Programs that help connect, heal, and provide stability include: 30 days to family behaviorial health membership, behaviorial interventionalists, community connection youth project, connect cafe, extreme family finding, food pantry and clothing closet, fostering prevention, kinship navigator, lawyers for kids, legal advocacy, respite care, support groups, and the youth connect center.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 66% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 18
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95.5%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 84.3%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $22.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -12.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 19% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 7 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 95.5% of revenue deployed · 84.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $258K · 26 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.