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Foster Care and Adoption Services

01 Foster Care and Adoption Services · 127 edit slice
41
orgs
127
activities
6
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 41 organizations and 127 activities — Wayfinder Family Services, CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY, CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA, AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDSARIZONA and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (78%) and California (22%). The field's most common shared approach is "Advance Payment Based on Need", run by 1 orgs.
Wayfinder Family Services and CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
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who to look at first

shortlist

Ranked by activity breadth, method diversity, and network reach across the slice. Attach a memo to this report and this list re-ranks around your intent.

where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
Arizona 78% · 32 orgs
California 22% · 9 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 41

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where the money comes from

funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS) 2
Government
Arizona Department of Economic Security 2
Government
California Department of Social Services 2
Government
ALTCS 1
Government
Area Agencies on Aging 1
Government
Arizona Community Foundation 1
Foundation
Arizona Department of Child Safety 1
Government
Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES) 1
Government
Arizona Department of Education 1
Government
Arizona Faith and Families Charities 1
Individuals
Arizona Leadership Foundation 1
Foundation
Armstrong McDonald Foundation 1
Foundation
BCBSAZ Foundation for Community and Health Advancement 1
Foundation
California Department of Public Health 1
Government
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Advance Payment Based on Need
7
Hague-Compliant International Adoption
2
Service Boundary Model
3
Standardized Operations Model
2
Structured Well-Being Framework
2
Transparent Adoption Process
3
who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks. Unlike the strategy-sharing graph below (which is inferred from shared approaches), these are relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

Arizona Department of Child Safety Partner
shared by 5 orgs
Arizona Department of Child Safety Government
shared by 3 orgs
Arizona Department of Revenue Government
shared by 3 orgs
Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Department of Child Safety Government
shared by 3 orgs
Administration for Children and Families Government
shared by 2 orgs
AmazonSmile Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Association for Foster & Adoptive Parents Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Ballet Arizona Partner
shared by 2 orgs
City of Tucson Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Council on Accreditation Network
shared by 2 orgs
DCS Government
shared by 2 orgs
DCS Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Department of Child Safety (DCS) Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health Government
shared by 2 orgs
Office of Head Start Government
shared by 2 orgs
where the field connects

strategy-sharing network

Inferred from shared theories of action: each line connects an org to a strategy it runs. Organizations that share many strategies cluster through the same nodes — funders can spot the field's structural bridges.

scale of the field

rollup metrics

Aggregated scale claims from orgs in the slice. Treat as a floor, not a ceiling — many orgs don't publish these numbers, so totals underrepresent real reach. Extreme outliers (often unit-mismatches upstream) are filtered out.

10K
Partner organizations
from 13 orgs
6K
Staff
from 5 orgs
3K
children served
from 2 orgs