In 2003 Foster contracted a supplier, DRC, to manufacture UlvaShield exclusively.
During January 2010, manager Chris Wilder revealed that Oxford would not be extending Foster's contract in the summer, stating "we were not going to extend Luke's contract after the summer.
From 1999 to 2002, the city awarded his agency more than $100 million in additional foster care contracts.
For St. Christopher's, though, the end came in 2005, when the city canceled its foster care contracts.
New York City's child welfare agency said Monday that it would sever its foster care contracts with Little Flower Children and Family Services of New York, an 80-year-old Roman Catholic agency that has been troubled in recent years.
In Illinois, Catholic Charities in five of the six state dioceses had grown dependent on foster care contracts, receiving 60 percent to 92 percent of their revenues from the state, according to affidavits by the charities' directors.
But there has never been a full public accounting of what went wrong at Miracle Makers, or how it spent millions of dollars in government funds and private donations before child welfare officials lost patience with its performance and canceled its foster care contract in 2005.
Catholic Charities originally filed suit against the state of Illinois over the foster care contracts in June.
Catholic Charities has lost another round in the ongoing battle over adoption and foster care contracts being granted to same-sex couples in civil unions, a Sangamon County judge ruled Monday.
