Mahalo
San Francisco, CA

TRINITY FOSTER FAMILY SERVICES OF THE BAY AREA

EIN 80-0570443
Housing, Food & Basic Needs Foster Care, Adoption & Child Welfare Children & youth
Mission

To recruit, train and certify foster and resource families and place neglected, abandoned, and abused children in safe, supportive family homes, with an emphasis on serving emotionally and socially challenged youth.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity Contributions are tax-deductible

About TRINITY FOSTER FAMILY SERVICES OF THE BAY AREA

Trinity Foster Family Services of the Bay Area is a California 501(c)(3) foster family agency based in San Francisco that provides foster care placement, certification and ongoing training and support for resource families. The agency focuses on placing socially maladjusted and emotionally troubled children into licensed family homes and providing stand-by emergency placement capacity.

The organization operates as a small-to-midsize foster family agency; recent tax filings show annual program revenue in the range of roughly $480k–$504k (fiscal years 2022–2024) and program spending that represents the large majority of total expenses. Trinity is an active subcontractor/partner in San Francisco county emergency placement efforts and provides training, 24/7 placement coordination and short-term emergency foster capacity for children removed from their families.

Trinity maintains an active web presence, files annual Form 990 returns, and is listed on national nonprofit data services and charity-rating platforms. Its recent operations and county-level contracting show ongoing, donor-facing activity in the Bay Area foster care system.

Notable achievements

Partner/subcontractor in SF emergency placement program

Named as a subcontractor in San Francisco’s Emergency Placement Collaborative, Trinity supported short-term emergency placements and on-call resource families; program documents report an average daily census and rapid-response capacity during the contract period.

Program-focused financial profile

Sustained program service revenue and spending over recent years, with program services accounting for the large majority of revenue (program service revenue ~ $472k in FY2024) and program expense ratios above 77% in recent fiscal years.

Positive operating result and net assets (FY2024)

Filed a Form 990 for fiscal year ending June 2024 showing operating surplus for that year and positive net assets (net assets in the low hundreds of thousands), indicating financial continuity for ongoing program delivery.

At a glance

Total assets
$279K
Annual revenue
$504K
Tax status
501(c)(3)Public charity
EIN
80-0570443
Location
San Francisco, CA
On Mahalo since
April 2026

Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.

Recognition

Charity-rating profile showing a multi-star evaluation on a national charity rating platform (three-star/78% level), with strong program expense and liabilities-to-assets metrics noted.
Listed and current in national nonprofit data resources with publicly filed Form 990 returns (demonstrating ongoing filing compliance and transparency).
Referenced in City & County of San Francisco contracting and program documents as a named subcontractor for emergency foster placement services, demonstrating local government partnership and operational capacity.

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