Foster Care Agency
2,210 active US providers register Foster Care Agency as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.02% of every provider in the registry, and the 280th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 253J00000X
- Grouping
- Agencies
- Classification
- Foster Care Agency
- Active providers
- 2,210
- States covered
- 48 of 51
What the code means
A Foster Care Agency is an agency that provides foster care as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) as "24-hour substitute care for children outside their own homes." Foster care settings include, but are not limited to, nonrelative foster family homes, relative foster homes (whether payments are being made or not), group homes, emergency shelters, residential facilities, and pre-adoptive homes.
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Utah | 259 | |
| Massachusetts | 204 | |
| Nevada | 198 | |
| Michigan | 188 | |
| Minnesota | 142 | |
| Texas | 141 | |
| California | 140 | |
| Florida | 131 | |
| Arizona | 107 | |
| North Carolina | 79 | |
| Illinois | 69 | |
| Ohio | 58 | |
| New York | 52 | |
| Hawaii | 51 | |
| Virginia | 38 |
Showing the 15 largest of 48 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
793 of these are people and 1,417 are organisations, so 64% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2016, and 617 registered in the last five years, 28% of the current population.
That is close to the pace of the registry as a whole.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- LAS VEGAS, NV156
- BRIGHAM CITY, UT149
- WORCESTER, MA30
- WAIPAHU, HI27
- HOUSTON, TX23
- MERCED, CA23
- EL PASO, TX21
- TUCSON, AZ17
- SALT LAKE CITY, UT16
- CHICAGO, IL16
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Foster Care Agency most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
| Also listed | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Community/Behavioral Health Agency | 153 | 6.9% |
| Case Management Agency | 93 | 4.2% |
| Child Mental Illness Respite Care | 69 | 3.1% |
| In Home Supportive Care Agency | 56 | 2.5% |
| Home Health Agency | 43 | 1.9% |
| Emotionally Disturbed Childrens' Residential Treatment Facility | 29 | 1.3% |
| Respite Care | 28 | 1.3% |
| Developmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency | 25 | 1.1% |
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.