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2025 Foundation Grantees

Each of the following organizations is making a measurable impact in the lives of foster youth and kinship families. We’re proud to support their work. Over the course of the year, we’ll introduce you to each of them.

• Adoptee Mentoring Society (Seattle, WA) – Provides mentorship and community for adopted and former foster youth.
• Fostering Hope Foundation (Colorado Springs, CO) – Supports foster families and children in care with holistic, wraparound services.
• Route 21 (Seattle, WA) – Offers transitional support for young adults aging out of foster care, including housing, life skills, and mentorship.
• Project 1.27 (Aurora, CO) – Equips faith communities to recruit and support foster and adoptive families.
• Project Lemonade (Portland, OR) – Empowers youth impacted by foster care through back-to-school resources, internships, and confidence-building programs.
• Treehouse (Seattle, WA) – Promotes educational equity and graduation success for youth in foster care.
• Bridge Meadows (Portland, OR) – Builds intergenerational communities that support foster-to-adopt families and elders.
• Family Education & Support Services (Restricted for the Kinship Care Program, Tumwater, WA) – Strengthens families through kinship care resources, education, and advocacy.

The CFOS Foundation is proud to announce that nine grants have been awarded for 2024, totaling $200,000! We are deeply grateful for the opportunity to work alongside these outstanding organizations, empowering communities across the regions CFO Selections serves. Together, we are making a meaningful impact!

We are proud to announce the CFOS Foundation has awarded nine grants for 2023 totaling $205,000! This once again sets a new single-year record in the history of the Foundation. We are honored and blessed to partner together with such great organizations and do our part to give back to the communities in which CFO Selections operates. Specifically, the CFOS Foundation focuses on investing in nonprofits supporting youth and families impacted by foster and kinship care.

We're proud to announce the CFOS Foundation has awarded five grants for 2022 totaling $165,000! This is the largest single-year award in the history of the Foundation. This is a testament to the ongoing commitment from CFO Selections to give back to the communities in which it operates. Specifically, the CFOS Foundation continues to focus on investing in non-profits that support youth and families impacted by foster and kinship care.

The CFOS Foundation Board approved the grants to four non-profit organizations which are well respected in the nonprofit world for their contributions to the foster care ecosystem.

The four grantees include one repeat organization – Bridge Meadows, and three new organizations – Olympic Angels and Hope Sparks in Washington and Oregon Social Learning Center (KEEP) in Oregon.

The approved grants were to the following non-profit organizations: