· Public charity
Faith Forward
Faith Forward is an interfaith network of people who advocate for policy positions that reflect our belief that each individual has equal worth in the eyes of the creator and therefore should have equal dignity under the law.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $182,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $222,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k11 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Nueva Esperanza | $50,000 |
| Repairers of the Breach | $20,000 |
| Common Good Strategies | $15,000 |
| AA Interdenominational Ministries | $15,000 |
| Tyler Made Media | $12,500 |
| POWER Interfaith | $10,000 |
| Freedom Road | $10,000 |
| Forward Together | $10,000 |
| Little Rock AME Zion Church | $10,000 |
| MI Organizing Project | $10,000 |
| RENACE USA | $10,000 |
| Southern Vision Alliance | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To advance the rights of workers by engaging diverse faith communities into action, from grassroots organizing to shaping policy at the local, state and national levels. They envision a nation where all workers enjoy the rights to:…
PA United organizes and builds power across Western PA to create
To be a powerful organization committed to combating the root cause of systemic injustice in our region by uniting people of faith in transforming our communities.
Alliance for Greater Works (AGW) helps leaders and organizations build relationships, capacity, and trust in marginalized communities where they desire to serve. Alliance specializes in earning stakeholders' trust, bridging relationships,…
Faith in Indiana (formerly IndyCAN) is a catalyst for faith communities and marginalized peoples to act collectively for racial and economic justice in Indiana. FaithIN develops civic leaders directly impacted by inequality, awakens the…
Uia is a multi-faith, multi-purpose npo working collaboratively on issues to promote social, economic and racial justice. uia recruits and trains leaders and clergy to act on issues, negotiate change and commit to the community.
MFSA mobilizes, leads and sustains a progressive United Methodist movement that energizes people to be agents of God's Justice, Peace and Reconciliation.
Congregations work toward being a powerful congregation-based community organization seeking justice and fairness for the citizens of Jacksonville.
We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.
To eliminate systematic racism and build antiracist multicultural diversity within Michigan institutions by providing education, networking, technical assistance, and supportive resources to the region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Vision Alliance and the most unlike its peers is African-American Interdenominational Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Nueva Esperanza Inc ↗
- Who funds Repairers of the Breach ↗
- Who funds African-American Interdenominational Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds POWER INTERFAITH INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Forward Together Wisconsin ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Faith Forward funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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How do I get to Faith Forward?
Find your warmest path to Faith Forward through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.