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Forward Current Foundation Inc at a glance

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Forward Current Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Environment$165kCivil Rights$50kHealth$45kCrime & Legal$30kHousing & Shelter$20kInternational$10kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$125k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$20,000
PECONIC LAND TRUST$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION$20,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PECONIC LAND TRUST: $20k → 7%RIVERKEEPER INC: $25k → 9%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNSEL: $75k → 17%MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK: $25k → 20%BRONX FREEDOM FUND: $10k → 28%REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 14%NYNJ BAYKEEPER: $35k → 6%ORLEANS PUBLIC DEFENDERS: $40k → 23%PECONIC LAND TRUST: $5k → 7%RIVERKEEPER INC: $5k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AM: $25k → 17%COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $20k → 17%LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $20k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION: $20k → 17%SURFRIDER FOUNDATION NEW YORK: $5k → 17%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $25k → 17%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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$100k · 3 repeat orgs$265k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$100k
$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’23
EnvironmentCrime & LegalHealthArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +12%
  • RI
    RIVERKEEPER INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +34%
  • PL
    PECONIC LAND TRUST INC
    2× · 2019–2023 · $25k · revenue +301%

Funded once

  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +41%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
  • RB
    RARITAN BAYKEEPER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +7%
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
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
2
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
Community Development Project Inc

Takeroot justice provides legal, participatory research and policy support to strengthen the work of grassroots and community-based groups in new york city to dismantle racial, economic and social oppression.

Community Improvement
5
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment
6
Food and Environment Reporting Network Inc

Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.

Food & Nutrition
7
Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International
8
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
9
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment
10
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
11
For the Fishes

To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…

Animals
12
Rights and Resources Institute Inc

Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make the Road New York; the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $75,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCRARITAN BAYKEEPER INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentRARITAN BAYKEEPER INCRIVERKEEPER INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentRIVERKEEPER INCPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentPECONIC LAND TRUST INCIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UN…COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $20,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS …SURFRIDER FOUNDATION NEW YORK: $5,000 · OtherSURFRIDER FOUNDATION NEW YO…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $45,000 · HealthPLANNED PAREN…Make the Road New York: $25,000 · Crime & LegalMake the Road…THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $20,000 · Crime & LegalTHE LEGAL AID…THE BRONX FREEDOM FUND INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · International
Environment$165,000Other$90,000Health$45,000Crime & Legal$45,000Arts & Culture$10,000International$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 budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRARITAN BAYKEEPER INC: $35,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetRIVERKEEPER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMake the Road New York: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRONX FREEDOM FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 13 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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