· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Forsberg Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Forsberg Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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