2025-08-08T14:02:12-04:00 2024-12-31 T BENUS ASSOCIATES LLC 3451 STATE RD J Fulton MO 65251 990EZ 2024-01-01 834331481 COLUMBIA FOSTER & ADOPTION PROJECT % Carrie Beucke COLU 4178729477 19 E Walnut Sute C Columbia MO 65203 CARRIE BEUCKE Pres 4178729477 2025-08-05 true true TAMI BENUS P00049428 5736073290 2025-08-08 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X X X 34329 X 34303 26 34329 3890 15361 164 40953 60368 -26039 271657 245618 X 227557 201518 0 0 44100 44100 271657 245618 0 0 271657 245618 Support Forster children and adults Baskets 1279 Giving Tree 12839 Smaller Events 7955 22073 Carrie Beucke Pres 5.00 0 0 0 Jackie Nichols VP 5.00 0 0 0 Lisa Crader Treas 5.00 0 0 0 Erin Strong Board Member 1.00 0 0 0 Jenn Dunlap Board Member 1.00 0 0 0 Cindy Garrett Board Member 1.00 0 0 0 false false false false false false false false false Carrie Beucke 19 E Walnut Sute C Columbia MO 65203 5737953985 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 4950 58308 31127 182203 34329 310917 4950 58308 31127 182203 34329 310917 310917 310917 1.00000 1.00000 X List of grants and similar amounts paid Part I line 10 Activity non Description of other expenses Part I line 16 Description AmountProgram Expenses 18,743Office 1,636Strategic Plan 8,877Insurance 4,805Board and Volunteer Exp 470Agency Support 979Misc 5,443 Description of other assets Part II line 24 Category Beginning of Year End of Yearfrom their return 44,100 44,100 Other program services Part III line 31 Support group events. Our Foster & Adoptive Parent Support Group is held monthly at the Columbia Boys and Girls Club. The events are open to all Boone County relative caregiver, foster and adoptive families. We regularly provide child care, and a meal is provided to everyone who attends. We work with an incredible group of volunteers that host activities for children as parents find community through shared experiences. Every quarter we host a social event, where families can gather to enjoy food, festivities, and enjoy one anothers company. I Belong Baskets. Initially entering foster care is one of the most traumatic things a child and their family can face. At a moments notice they are asked to pack what belongings they can, if any, and oftentimes dont even fully understand why they can no longer be with their family. Many of these children have been exposed to things beyond their years. An iBelong Basket is a basket with a purpose to provide comfort to children as they enter the foster care system and to provide important and necessary supplies to support the foster parent or relative caregiver who will be The Giving Tree. The Giving Tree is a program organized each year by Columbia Foster and Adoption Project in Coordination with Great Circle, Cornerstones of Care, Missouri Alliance for Children and Families and Boone and Callaway Counties Childrens Division to provide Christmas gifts for Boone County children in foster care. Foster parents assist the children in filling out Christmas wish lists, then residents of the community adopt a childs list to purchase gifts from and return the gifts to CFAP for distribution. typically between 350 - 400 kids receive gifts through