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Miracle Foundation

A family for every child in our lifetime


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Mission

Our Mission: To empower vulnerable children to reach their full potential. Our Vision: A family for every child in our lifetime.

Notes from the nonprofit

Miracle Foundation is an international nonprofit that helps orphans and foster children find a safe, stable, and permanent family. Whether in an orphanage or in the Foster Care System, our vision is a family for every child in our lifetime. Since 2000, Miracle Foundation has been dedicated to improving the lives of children. In 2022 alone, we supported more than 170,000 children—and this is just the beginning. Today, we are a world leader in ending the need for orphanages and ensuring children grow up in safe, stable families. To achieve this, we are actively uniting children with families, partnering with frontline workers, preventing children from entering the system whenever possible, and stabilizing placements for children until they find a forever family. Founded in 2000, Miracle Foundation has consistently received the highest ratings from Charity Navigator and other watchdog organizations that assess charities' effectiveness and financial transparency.

Ruling year info

2001

CEO

Leslie Beasley

Founder

Caroline Boudreaux

Main address

1506 West Sixth Street

Austin, TX 78703 USA

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EIN

74-2989580

NTEE code info

Children's and Youth Services (P30)

Youth Development Programs (O50)

International Relief (Q33)

IRS filing requirement

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Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

THE PROBLEM: ● There are 150 million orphans worldwide. ● Currently, 5.4 million children are living in orphanages worldwide. ● 80% of children in institutions have a living parent they could live with if given support. ● 391,000 children currently live in the US Foster Care System. ● Children in foster care are moved an average of 7 times once they are removed from their family. ● 60% of foster families quit within the 1st year ● Case manager turnover rate is 40%.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

We Unite Children With Families

We know children do not belong in orphanages; they belong in families. We also know that each child’s journey home is unique. This isn’t just about sending children home from orphanages. As we lead the transition of children away from institutions, our job is to ensure the home that is waiting for them is safe, stable, and permanent.

Population(s) Served

Separation should be the last resort. Our work always strives to lift families up and keep them together. We prevent children from entering the foster care system in the first place – by training the social workforce to understand that separation should be the last resort and by partnering with on-the-ground organizations.

Every day around the world, social workers, caregivers, and government officials make decisions that impact millions of vulnerable children. We provide these “front line” workers with highly specialized training and educational resources, highlighting alternatives to orphanage care and allowing them to identify and support at-risk children long before separation is ever necessary.

Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Families

Miracle Foundation is working tirelessly to help stabilize children in families within the foster system. One of the ways we stabilize the foster care system is by creating a scalable, intuitive app, that accelerates every aspect of our work and makes “A Family For Every Child” possible in our lifetime. With FosterShare™, we help stabilize placements for children until they have a forever home.

Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Families
Children and youth
Families

Where we work

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Number of children in orphanages resettled to live with parents or relatives

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

We Unite Children With Families

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of people trained

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

We Unite Children With Families

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of families served

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Our Sustainable Development Goals

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.


1. We unite children with families – always preferring kinship care over
institutions.

2. We prevent children from entering the foster care and orphanage systems in
the first place – by training the social workforce to understand that separation
should be the last resort.

3. We stabilize placements for children until they have a forever home.

Children want to grow up in a family, and each of them have the right to a safe, stable, and permanent home. And yet millions of children remain in orphanages, are removed from their birth family, or are moved too often between foster homes. It’s time to change this. Here’s how we’re doing it.

We are working to eliminate the need for orphanages globally. Miracle Foundation is part of a movement to reunite orphaned children with their families. Collectively, with partners all over the world, we believe we can end the need for orphanages in our lifetime.

We are working to ensure children grow up in a safe, stable samily. In the United States, Miracle Foundation is working tirelessly to help stabilize children in families within the foster system and also working to prevent at-risk children from ever entering the system in the first place.

1.Prevent children from entering the system in the first place.

Every day around the world, social workers, caregivers and government officials make decisions that impact millions of vulnerable children. Partnering with UNICEF, we provide highly specialized training and educational resources for these “boots on the ground” workers in the childcare ecosystem.

Through this collaboration, Miracle Foundation has trained 2300+ government officials and caregivers and partnered with community programs that identify and support at-risk children and vulnerable families long before child placement in an orphanage becomes a necessity.


2. Ensure that every child thrives.

All children are entitled to an education, nutrition, health and protection. Over the past twenty years, we have developed the proprietary Thrive Scale™ methodology, based on the UN Rights of the Child and using this we are currently working with close to 300 orphanages to improve the lives of more than 15,000 children.

The orphanages we directly support see a 47% increase in Thrive Scale™ scores and a 20% reunification of children with their families.

3. Connect the US Foster Care System.

Miracle Foundation is applying our expertise in data collection and ground-breaking technology to the US foster care system. With the introduction of our FosterShare™ app, we are simplifying reporting and connecting community services to foster families. By linking agencies, experts and education to an easy-t0-use app, we are creating greater stability and preventing the traumatic negative impacts on children when they are moved from foster home to foster home.

OUR 2022 IMPACT
● 171,896 children’s lives improved.
● 8,812 children directly supported by our programs.
● 3,578 social workforce and government officials trained on prevention,
reunification, FosterShare, and our Thrive ScaleTM Methodology.
● 5,682 families supported by our programs.
● 443 children reunited with their families.
● 1,753 children prevented from entering the system.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We shared information about our current feedback practices.
  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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Miracle Foundation

Board of directors
as of 09/22/2023
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Krishna Srinivasan

LiveOak Venture Partners

Krishna Srinivasan

LiveOak Venture Partners

Caroline Boudreaux

Miracle Foundation

Rajeev Kathuria

GLOBALFOUNDRIES

John Messer

Grant Thornton, LLP

Leslie Beasley

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Daniel Marsili

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Nabeela Ixtabalan

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Trisa Thompson

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Karen Starns

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Caroline Boudreaux

Miracle Foundation

Board leadership practices

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 9/8/2023

Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.

Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Gender identity
Female

The organization's co-leader identifies as:

No data

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

 

Sexual orientation

Disability

Equity strategies

Last updated: 09/08/2023

GuideStar partnered with Equity in the Center - an organization that works to shift mindsets, practices, and systems to increase racial equity - to create this section. Learn more

Data
  • We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
  • We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
  • We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
  • We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
  • We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
  • We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
Policies and processes
  • We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
  • We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
  • We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
  • We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.