Foster Grants and Giving Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Foster Grants and Giving supports literacy and remediation programs throughout our community for underserved and underrepresented students while providing evidence-based intensive outside-the-school-day learning opportunities and summer enrichment for our students by providing tutoring services books STEM kits high-quality materials college prep services financial literacy student business student nonprofit management on-campus field trips to after-school and summer programs high-impact reading interventions and targeted supports targeted mathematics and expansion experiential activities and feeding programs Our mission is Helping the Helpers which means providing support and resources to organizations and individuals who educate and assist students directly engaging the community and providing direct programming to foster hope and guidance
- Income
- $102,169
- Spending
- $101,250
- Reserves
- 9.7 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 63%
- Highest pay
- $1,391, presidentfounder
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Good: 86 out of 100. Higher than 65% of charities in its peer group (education, under $250k).
Reserves
28 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 9.7 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 0% of what it owns.
Living within its means
12 of 15Income exceeded spending by 1% of income.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $60 spent. Provided every 11th and 12th grader with over 800 SAT Practice Questions and Practice Test Workbooks along with ACT English Reading and Writing Test Prep and ACT Math Test Prep Quick Study Laminated Reference Guides to enhance our High School College Prep Programs Partnered with the Celebration Restaurant Group to distribute over 600 Free One-Topping Personal Pan Pizza Certificates from Pizza Hut to individual families and five schools celebrating their hard work and achievements for the current school year Sponsored the Fourth Annual College Career Day Fair at North Kissimmee School to connect 150 high school students and share the educational and career options available to them in our community Provided 310 Literacy Books to Kingdom Kids Christian Academy for a Back-to-School Class Library Project to support 250 students Executed our Quarter 4 College Test Prep Programming and provided 500 Books College Prep Planning Kits College Prep Planning Guides and ACT Flashcards which were distributed to high school students at three schools to prepare them for college entrance exams These exceptional students received PERT Study Guides PERT Test Prep Review with Practice Exam Questions for Florida Colleges Princeton Review Digital SAT Premium Prep Guides 6 Full-Length Practice Tests 3 in Book 3 Adaptive Tests Online Online Flashcards Review Tools CLT Study Guides 6 Full Length Practice Tests and 720 Questions for the Classic Learning Test Prep SAT Vocabulary Workbooks Over 700 High-Frequency Words to Master College Preparation Planning Kit with Checklists and Guides to help prepare for and apply to the right college and ACT Flashcards
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 30, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 10, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since September 2018.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 7, 2026.
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