CREATING A FAMILY

Financials

From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.

Officers, directors and key employees

As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024, highest compensation first.

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)

43 BOXWOOD LN, BREVARD, NC 28712-3537

In care of

% DAWN DAVENPORT

Mailing address (990-N for 2011)

874 Lambs Creek Road, Brevard NC 28712

Principal officer (990 for 2024)

Linda Fiore, 165 Potomac Pl, Oregon, WI 53575

Principal officer (990-N for 2011)

Dawn Davenport, 874 Lambs Creek Road, Brevard NC 28712

Signed the 990

Linda Fiore, Executive Director

Phone

(828) 862-8200

Website

www.creatingafamily.org

Mission

Foster, kinship and adoptive parents need information because our children often struggle with emotional and educational challenges that can make parenting hard. It is important that this information be expert-based and trauma-informed rather than the anecdotal sharing that often takes place. The MISSION of Creating a Family is to do just that - to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster and kinship parents and the professionals who support them by creating engaging, expert-based and trauma-informed resources and training. We create resources for families raising kids who have experienced the trauma of neglect, abuse and prenatal exposure. Our resources embrace all the current media in order to fit the learning style and time availability of busy parents. In addition to education, we know first-hand the power of support and being surrounded by others who understand your experience. As such, we run a large online support group for adoptive, foster and kinship families.

Program accomplishments

• Creating a Family's Interactive Training and Support Curriculum for Foster, Adoptive & Kinship Families was designed to make it easy for organizations to run engaging, high-quality support groups (in-person or online). Our curriculum is a turnkey resource developed to help facilitators provide support and training while building community, reducing caregiver stress, and helping caregivers feel more confident in parenting children exposed to trauma. In 2020, Creating a Family worked to create, pilot and test the new Interactive Training & Support for Foster/Adoptive/Kinship Families Subscription Service. Ten curricula were developed in 2020 and offered to the public in 2021. During 2021 an additional 10 curricula were developed. In 2022, 5 more curricula were developed. In 2023 we launched a new website to house our Curriculum, making it more accessible and user friendly to organizations running support groups for foster, adoptive and kinship families. The Interactive Training & Support Curricula provides resources and wraparound services with the goal of increasing the number of parent support groups available to families by making it easier to facilitate and maintain high-quality groups where parents develop social connections, reduce stress, and feel more confident in parenting children exposed to trauma. Each curriculum includes a video, facilitator guide, and handouts. The wraparound subscription service has initial facilitator training for online or in-person groups, access to participant evaluations, and access to a curriculum library that includes 25 topics for foster, adoptive, and kinship parents. In 2024, we began developing the Kinship Interactive Training and Support curriculum which is a 10.5 hour curriculum package designed to provide support and training for kinship caregivers raising children in their home.
  Expenses $35,109 · revenue $77,229
• In 2024, Creating a Family updated and delivered the Prenatal Exposure Workshop for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Parents over five workshops online during the year. This workshop is designed to help participants recognize children who may have been impacted by prenatal exposure to alcohol and drugs and trains them on best practices for working with these children and youth to help them thrive. The workshop was delivered over five sessions and includes a video with embedded video interviews with experts from UNC's Knowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Duke University School of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and foster parents with lived experience raising children with prenatal substance exposure. Further, the videos included animated videos that we created to help explain and animate complex concepts. Each workshop is facilitated by two staff and includes group discussion during each session. Participants have access to an online resource library to reference further materials on topics presented during the workshop, including diagnosis, strategies, and further resources.
  Expenses $68,088 · revenue $139,735
• Another invaluable program service is the Creating a Family podcast. This free, weekly, one-hour production, hosted by Executive Director, Dawn Davenport, covers topics in the fields of adoption, foster care and kinship care with guests that are specialists in their respective fields. Further, each week, Dawn answers listeners' questions during a 5-10 minute podcast that is published on the weekend. There were 169,900 listens during 2024 and 3.1 million listens since the podcast's inception. Creating a Family created a 4-hour facilitated training specific to child welfare professionals to help them better understand the impact of prenatal exposure to alcohol and drugs, recognize children who may have been exposed, and support the adoptive, foster, and kinship families who are raising them. In 2024, we piloted this training with ten public child welfare agencies and one American Indian tribe. In collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Social Work, the training was evaluated and its impact on child welfare professionals was assessed. Children and youth who were exposed during pregnancy to alcohol and drugs are significantly more likely to face placement instability. Child Welfare Professionals trained on the long-term developmental and behavioral impacts of this exposure are better prepared to train and support the families raising these kids.
  Expenses $93,045
• The Creating a Family website, www.CreatingaFamily.org is the focal point of our organization. Our mission is to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them in raising children exposed to trauma, including prenatal exposure, by creating expert-based and trauma-informed resources and training for parents and professionals. Our website is where we house the resources and trainings we create. In 2022, Creating a Family averaged 50,500+ average page views monthly. There is no charge for the vast majority of resources provided on the site.
  Expenses $45,092
• Creating a Family provides online courses for adoptive, foster, and kinship parents and continuing education courses for social workers in the child welfare field. We have 75+ parent courses for pre-adoptive, in-service foster, and post-adoption families. Each course is 1 hour and comes with a Certificate of Completion. Our courses align with the federal requirements for international adoption and various state-specific pre-adoption education requirements. Our courses address topics relevant to adoptive, foster, and kinship families. We also offer 19 courses accredited by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) to offer continuing education (CE) credit for social workers. In 2024, more than 36,252 courses were enrolled.
  Expenses $46,992 · revenue $328,183
• Creating a Family reaches out to individuals through its weekly adoption, foster care, and kinship newsletter to 6,400 subscribers and through its broad exposure to the social networks that it maintains on Facebook (9,650+ followers and over 11,300 followers of the Support Group page), Instagram (3,100+) and Pinterest (6,450+) followers. Creating a Family also reaches out to adoption and foster professionals through its weekly newsletter to 4,200 subscribers and through LinkedIn (1,576) followers.
  Expenses $33,008 · revenue $34,640
• In 2024, Creating a Family delivered both in-person and online support groups for kinship caregivers providing opportunities for peer support and learning. Further, in 2024, we launched a monthly legal clinic for kinship caregivers in North Carolina. We work with three NC family law attorneys to answer questions through an online clinic by Zoom. We continued to provide information on legal permanency options to North Carolina kinship caregivers through NCkinshipfamilies.org. This is a multimedia website that we developed featuring expert videos, kinship caregiver videos, tip sheets, and other resources to help relative caregivers consider their best options when making permanency decisions. The website offers links and information on how to find an attorney and additional legal resources. All of our programs for relative caregivers are developed with input from our Kinship Advisory Board made up of relative caregivers from across the state of North Carolina.
  Expenses $95,126 · revenue $25,551
• Creating a Family provided weekly content creation in the form of articles and corresponding images for an outside organization to publish on their website. Content covered a range of topics developed in partnership with the organization to support grandparents raising grandchildren and other relative caregivers in their target area.
  Expenses $26,297 · revenue $31,120

What it must file and when

IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.

IRS record

EIN

27-0679437

Tax-exempt status

501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization

Foundation status

Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))

Donations deductible (Pub 78)

Public charity, 50% deduction limit

Exempt since

2010

Accounting year ends

December

Files

Form 990 or 990-EZ

Category (NTEE)

Human services (P31)

Assets (IRS master file)

$965,060

Income (IRS master file)

$747,050

Filing history

990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 27-0679437).

Questions about CREATING A FAMILY

What is the EIN of CREATING A FAMILY?

The employer identification number (EIN) of CREATING A FAMILY is 27-0679437.

Is CREATING A FAMILY tax-exempt?

Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2010.

Are donations to CREATING A FAMILY tax-deductible?

Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).

Which annual return does CREATING A FAMILY file?

Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.

When is the next return of CREATING A FAMILY due?

The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending December 31, 2025) is due May 15, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.

When did CREATING A FAMILY last file with the IRS?

The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2024.

Who is the principal officer of CREATING A FAMILY?

The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 names Linda Fiore.

Who are the officers and directors of CREATING A FAMILY?

The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 lists 13 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $92,774 (Dawn Davenport, Executive Director, Board Director).

How much revenue does CREATING A FAMILY have?

On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 it reported revenue of $747,050, expenses of $596,867 and total assets of $965,060 at year end.

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