Foster Care Technologies, LLC

What Foster Care Technologies, LLC does

Foster Care Technologies, LLC (FCT) is a privately held software company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Lawrence, Kansas, that develops and licenses ECAP (Every Child A Priority), a cloud-based foster care placement matching system. ECAP applies predictive algorithms developed and continuously refined in collaboration with the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare using over 22,000 historical placement records; the platform is hosted on Microsoft Azure and integrates with Microsoft Dynamics 365-based child welfare case management systems. Outcome research from the University of Kansas reports a 22.5% improvement in placement stability and more than 50 days faster time to permanency for children matched through ECAP compared with non-ECAP placements. A complementary Foster Family Portal mobile application (iOS and Android) provides real-time match notifications for foster families and uses AI-powered OCR to convert referral documents into secure summaries. The company is a certified B Corporation and positions ECAP as a clinically-informed decision-support tool for social workers rather than an automated placement engine.

FCT's revenue model combines multi-year subscription and licensing fees for the ECAP platform with placement process consulting engagements. The company targets state and county government child welfare agencies as its primary segment, augmented by private nonprofit agency customers in Kansas, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. Distribution is achieved through direct enterprise sales, channel partnerships with implementation consultants such as Deloitte Consulting LLP and Spurwink, and the Microsoft Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner Program. Flagship end customers include the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (statewide foster care, adoption, and service matching through the CCWIS solution, contracted via Deloitte, February 2023) and the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (statewide adoption matching via Spurwink, August 2019). No external institutional funding rounds have been disclosed, and the company operates with a headcount of 1–10 employees.

Name

Foster Care Technologies, LLC

Legal name

Foster Care Technologies, LLC

Website

https://fostercaretech.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Foster Care Technologies is a Lawrence, Kansas-based software vendor selling ECAP, a cloud-based predictive placement matching system for state and county child welfare agencies, validated by University of Kansas research and integrated with Microsoft Dynamics 365.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Foster Care Placement Matching Software

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411), Individual and Family Services (6241)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Child Welfare, Foster Care & Adoption Services (BPAGAEAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Family & Parenting Support Services (BPAGAEAC)

Keywords

• Foster care placement
• Child welfare software
• Predictive matching
• Adoption matching
• Case management systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Lawrence

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. ECAP Software Licensing/Subscription: Government agencies and child welfare organizations contract for access to the ECAP platform. Contracts are typically multi-year agreements with state or county governments (e.g., Illinois DCFS, Maine DHHS). Revenue is generated through licensing fees for the placement matching software platform.
2. Placement Process Consulting Services: FCT offers consulting services to help agencies optimize their placement processes, including comprehensive process reviews, role and responsibility analysis, and tailored technology integration strategy recommendations. Provided by a team of social workers, software developers, and business professionals.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Foster Care Technologies sells ECAP (Every Child A Priority), a cloud-based, predictive placement matching platform that helps child welfare agencies match foster children with optimal foster families. The company also distributes the Foster Family Portal mobile application that connects agencies with foster families in real time, and provides placement process consulting services to help agencies optimize placement workflows.

Product overview

Foster Care Technologies offers a unified product ecosystem centered on ECAP (Every Child A Priority), their core placement matching platform. ECAP is a research-backed algorithmic system that matches foster children with optimal families based on compatibility factors. Complementing ECAP is the Foster Family Portal mobile application, which provides real-time notifications and communication between agencies and foster families, featuring AI-powered document processing. The company also offers Placement Process Consulting services to help agencies optimize their overall placement workflows. The products work together as an integrated system: ECAP generates matching recommendations which flow to the Foster Family Portal for family notification and response, creating a seamless placement workflow from matching through placement.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ECAP (Every Child A Priority): The company's flagship foster care placement matching system that uses cutting-edge algorithms and research-backed algorithms to match children with optimal foster families, improving placement stability and permanency outcomes.
• Foster Family Portal
• Placement Process Consulting

Products and services

• ECAP (Every Child A Priority) ECAP is a research-backed foster care placement matching system that uses predictive algorithms to rank available foster families for each child based on compatibility factors. It improves placement stability by 22.5%, reduces time to permanency by over 50 days, and integrates with Microsoft Dynamics 365-based child welfare case management systems. ECAP is sold as a subscription/licensed platform to state and county government child welfare agencies and private nonprofit providers.
• Foster Family Portal

Quantifiable outcome

• 22.5% improvement in placement stability for children placed with ECAP Best Match system vs. non-ECAP placements
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability5 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• Deloitte Consulting LLPflagshipImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 15 February 2023FCT signed a contract with Deloitte Consulting LLP to provide ECAP for foster care, adoption, and service matching placements for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services' CCWIS Solution. Deloitte serves as the prime contractor while FCT provides the ECAP software platform. This is FCT's most significant government contract.
• SpurwinkcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 31 July 2019Spurwink, a behavioral health and education services organization, contracted with FCT to implement ECAP as the statewide adoption matching system for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Starting August 1, 2019, Spurwink uses ECAP to guide all adoptive placements within Maine's statewide adoption program.
• Microsoft CorporationcoreTechnology or Integration · 19 March 2017Foster Care Technologies joined Microsoft's Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner Program. FCT continues to utilize Microsoft Azure as its data hosting service. ECAP's predictive placement recommendation engine is available through Microsoft's child welfare case management system built on Microsoft Dynamics 365. Microsoft provides go-to-market support to help FCT expand among public government foster care agencies.
• Illinois Department of Children and Family ServicesflagshipTechnology or IntegrationIllinois DCFS is the end-customer receiving ECAP services under the Deloitte contract. ECAP is being deployed statewide for the Illinois CCWIS solution to guide foster care, adoption, and service matching placements.
• Maine Department of Health and Human ServicescoreTechnology or IntegrationMaine DHHS is the end-customer using ECAP for statewide adoption matching, implemented through partner Spurwink. ECAP has been configured to guide all adoptive placements within Maine's statewide network.
• University of Kansas School of Social WelfarecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe University of Kansas School of Social Welfare conducted the research validating ECAP's effectiveness, analyzing over 22,000 placement records. FCT maintains an ongoing collaboration with researchers and data scientists from KU to continuously refine ECAP's predictive algorithms based on the latest placement outcome data.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Kelloo: Provides child welfare and human services case management software used by state and county agencies. Comparable to FCT because both target the same child welfare buyer with technology that supports placement and case workflows, though Kelloo is broader and Kelloo is positioned as a full case management platform versus FCT's placement-matching module.
• Core Solutions (Cx360): Behavioral health and human services platform whose Cx360 product is used by state agencies for child welfare and behavioral health case management. Comparable to FCT because both sell modular software to government human services agencies, with overlapping buyers in child welfare and similar AI/data-driven workflow positioning.
• Eccovia (ClientTrack): Case management platform focused on homeless services, foster care, and human services programs for government and nonprofit agencies. Comparable to FCT because ClientTrack covers foster care and child welfare case management workflows for state and county buyers, directly overlapping on placement-related and child welfare use cases.

Broad incumbents

• Tyler Technologies (Northwoods): Large public-sector software vendor that acquired Northwoods, a long-standing child welfare case management provider. Comparable to FCT because Tyler/Northwoods sells into the same state and county child welfare agencies and competes for the same CCWIS modernization budgets, but at much greater scale and with a full case management suite.
• WellSky: Large healthcare and human services software platform covering home health, hospice, and social services. Comparable to FCT because WellSky serves human services agencies with workflow and matching software and competes for the same state technology modernization dollars, but across a much broader portfolio of human services use cases.
• Netsmart Technologies: Behavioral health and human services EHR/case management vendor used by state agencies, child welfare organizations, and community providers. Comparable to FCT because Netsmart targets the same public-sector human services market and overlaps on child welfare technology procurement, though as a much larger, multi-vertical incumbent.
• Qualifacts: Behavioral health EHR vendor (Credible, Insight, CareLogic) serving community mental health and human services providers. Comparable to FCT because Qualifacts sells to many of the same nonprofit and county behavioral health providers involved in foster care delivery, and competes for adjacent human services technology budgets.

Emerging players

• Bonterra (Social Solutions): Provider of Efforts to Outcomes (ETO) and other social services software used by human services agencies and nonprofits. Comparable to FCT because Bonterra's ETO software is used in child and family services programs, including by some foster care and adoption agencies, though its scope is broader outcome tracking rather than placement matching.

Others

• MAXIMUS: Large government services contractor that operates human services programs and IT modernization engagements for state agencies, including child welfare. Comparable to FCT because MAXIMUS both competes for and partners on CCWIS-style procurements; FCT's Illinois deal sits inside a MAXIMUS-style integrator ecosystem.
• Casey Family Programs: National child welfare foundation that funds, evaluates, and publicly endorses foster care innovations. Comparable to FCT because Casey has publicly endorsed ECAP and shapes the buyer landscape FCT sells into; not a competitor but a high-influence ecosystem participant whose continued endorsement materially affects FCT's positioning.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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