· Private foundation
The Forsberg Charitable Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $212k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $503k
- $250k+4 grants · $5.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHOENIX SEMINARY | $2,232,000 |
| ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $2,215,000 |
| GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK | $291,000 |
| MINISTRY TRANSITIONS | $261,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $149,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE LUTHERAN BRETHREN | $116,000 |
| GOLF FORE AFRICA | $108,000 |
| ARIZONA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $79,889 |
| CAMPUS CHRISTIAN CENTER | $50,000 |
| TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH | $46,000 |
| INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $40,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST | $37,500 |
| RAINBOW ACRES | $36,000 |
| MISSIONS DOOR | $26,000 |
| SUNSHINE ACRES | $26,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ACARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY2× · 2019–2020 · $2.3M · revenue +17%
GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INC2× · 2019–2020 · $311k · revenue +71%- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE2× · 2019–2020 · $182k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- SASUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INCone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
To deliver biblically-based education and ministry mentoring through graduate-level degree programs.
Training pastors and leaders in christian faith
Offers counsel, formal & informal teaching served in a pastoral role, mentored groups,filled numerous speaking invitations, conducted discipling groups & provided spiritual, emotional and
Faith services
To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…
Pastor training
Ibc exists to empower indigenous christ-followers for ministry to the nations. in order to accomplish this purpose, the goals of indigenous bible college are: 1) to provide the necessary training for accurate interpretation of gods word so…
Church
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
To train pastors/leaders in africa who have little or no formal training and resources. teach them how to study and prepare bible-based messages using the thompson chain reference study bible and to provide bible to trained pastors/leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Seminary Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds GOLF FORE AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW ACRES ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Dallas Seminary Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 The Forsberg Charitable Foundation 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.