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Black Mothers Forum Inc

Black Mothers Forum Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,084,664 to it, the largest being THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM ($250,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.2M
Revenue FY2024
17
Funders on record
$1.1M
Grants received
$-90418
Net assets
7/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 51%

Against its field

Black Mothers Forum Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)94% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($23k) Expenses 100 ($12k) Net assets 100 ($11k)2020 Revenue 536 ($123k) Expenses 415 ($50k) Net assets 763 ($85k)2021 Revenue 4004 ($921k) Expenses 4122 ($492k) Net assets 4598 ($515k)2022 Revenue 4170 ($960k) Expenses 11108 ($1.3M) Net assets 1329 ($149k)2023 Revenue 6651 ($1.5M) Expenses 13759 ($1.6M) Net assets 314 ($35k)2024 Revenue 5400 ($1.2M) Expenses 11465 ($1.4M) Net assets -808 ($-90418)
201820202021202220232024
Revenue (5400)Expenses (11465)Net assets (-808)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

88% of Black Mothers Forum Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,013 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
18
$74k
20
$429k
21
$366k
22
$112k
23
$126k
24
0.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $62k → $115k.

5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Black Mothers Forum Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Black Mothers Forum Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

87% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Black Mothers Forum Inc.

23%
largest funder
60%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 61% · 2021 57% · 2022 59% · 2023 87%growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

17% of Black Mothers Forum Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

Black Mothers Forum Inc draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 8 states in all.

WA
IN
PA
CA
AZ
DC
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

20
21
22
23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 17 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Black Mothers Forum Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Arizona

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Black Mothers Forum Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Black Mothers Forum Inc?
Black Mothers Forum Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,084,664 to it, the largest being THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM ($250,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Black Mothers Forum Inc have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,084,664 in grants to Black Mothers Forum Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Black Mothers Forum Inc?
THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Black Mothers Forum Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 17funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing