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Forward Advantage Foundation Inc

Forward Advantage Foundation Inc's mission is to help improve poverty rates and living conditions within our local communities and Kenya through fundraising and outreach efforts.

$495k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$391k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

International$1.4MHealth$435kEducation$370kFood & Nutrition$183kReligion$79k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
  • $250k+1 grant · $391k
$72,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$706k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST STREET CHURCH$391,286
FEED MY SHEEP MINISTRY$72,250
THE BULLDOG FOUNDATION$12,169
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FEED MY SHEEP MINISTRY: $72k → 19%FEED MY SHEEP MINISTRY: $65k → 19%FEED MY SHEEP MINISTRY: $45k → 19%FEED MY SHEEP MINISTRY: $250 → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 9 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$2.4M
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
-4%

Still filing today

89%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $231k · revenue +65%
  • COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $170k · revenue +90%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2021 · $115k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue -9%
  • PM
    PACIFIC MISSION AVIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -4%
  • HO
    HARVEST OF HARMONY COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
California State University Foundation

Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…

Philanthropy
2
California Healthcare Foundation

Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…

—
3
California Health Foundation and Trust

Support access, research, and education in the fields of healthcare delivery, financing, and patient care.

Philanthropy
4
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
5
Central Valley Health Foundation

The Central Valley Health Foundation (CVHF) is a California not-for-profit corporation. The Foundation was organized to coordinate the solicitation of contributions through its operations and to disburse such contributions, earnings, and…

Philanthropy
6
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
7
Cal Med Foundation
Education
8
Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc

Csu east bay foundation is an auxiliary organization of california state university east bay and the california state university system. the organization's mission is to provide services that aid, supplement, and advance the educational…

Education
9
Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation

To actively promote, pursue and steward private support for the advancement of california state university, fullerton.

Philanthropy
10
California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn
Philanthropy
11
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
12
California State University Los Angeles Foundation

To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Hospitals of Central California Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Feed My Sheep Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FORWARD ADVANTAGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,214,835 · InternationalFORWARD ADVANTAGE FOUNDATION INCHope Matters International: $194,500 · InternationalHope Matters International+1 more: $8,450 · InternationalVALLEY HEALTHCARE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $199,049 · OtherVALLEY HEALTHCARE ED…COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $170,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALTH SYS…HOLYSMOKE USA: $75,000 · OtherHOLYSMOKE USA+1 more: $3,500 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $230,500 · EducationCALIFORNIA S…THE BULLDOG FOUNDATION: $30,169 · EducationTHE BULLDOG …UCLA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationFeed My Sheep Ministries: $182,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION: $115,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $40,255 · HealthCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $10,000 · Philanthropy
International$1,417,785Other$447,549Education$270,669Human Services$182,500Health$155,255Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFORWARD ADVANTAGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,214,835 over 3y, 84% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $230,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY HEALTHCARE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $199,049 over 3y, 88% of budgetHope Matters International: $194,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetFeed My Sheep Ministries: $182,500 over 5y, 47% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $170,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $40,255 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BULLDOG FOUNDATION: $30,169 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Forward Advantage Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Forward Advantage Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Forward Advantage Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Forward Advantage Foundation Inc 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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