· Public charity
The Forgotten International
The Forgotten International (TFI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the welfare of impoverished and "forgotten" people in the poorest areas of the world.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Shanti Bhavan | $154,000 |
| Kiran Educational Trust | $21,000 |
| Project Pearls | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $536k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions, $439k to organizations and $97k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: General Support · Grants
Stated purpose: General Support
Stated purpose: General Support · Grants
Stated purpose: General Support · Grants
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of The Forgotten International’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 17%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PPPROJECT PEARLS USA INC4× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +72%
- TFTibet Fund Inc3× · 2018–2022 · $29k · revenue +70%
- CCCAMBODIAN COMMUNITY DREAM ORGANIZATION INC4× · 2018–2021 · $29k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- DWDIVINE WORD MISSIONARIESone grant, 2019 · $10k
- MOMargaret Okari Children's Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +74% · 28% of their budget
- AFARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR CANCERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +549%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PEARLS USA INC ↗
- Who funds Tibet Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY DREAM ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR BETTER FUTURES ↗
- Who funds Margaret Okari Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR CANCER ↗
- Who funds Positive Change Can Happen ↗
- Who funds One World Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds MEDLENDORG ↗
- Who funds International Association for Child Aid ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Forgotten International funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Forgotten International. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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