North Carolina · Nonprofit
FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD
FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD (North Carolina) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,514,163 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC ($662,009). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Families Moving Forward does
Mission
Families Moving Forward helps families in the crisis of homelessness find their way home. We provide temporary housing, case management, skills education, and connection to community resources to help parents and children thrive in stable homes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The nest emergency shelter program: the nest emergency shelter has the capacity to serve 20 families at a time. The majority of nest families also participate in programming, including behavioral health support, workforce development, children's services, family engagement activities, and case management.
$908,972 spentof which $185,864 as grants72% of program spendingThe branching out aftercare program:families can opt into aftercare services once they are placed into housing from the shelter. Services include ongoing case management, access to onsite programming, and connection to additional community resources.
$20,978 spentof which $594 as grants$3,115 earned by the program2% of program spendingThe rapid rehousing program:the rapid rehousing program places families into stable housing. The program provides ongoing case management before and after placement, as well as financial support to help secure and maintain housing for up to six months after placement.
$338,442 spentof which $257,015 as grants27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,268,392.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $3.3M to $3.8M (+14%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 24% · 2019 7% · 2020 6% · 2021 10% · 2022 28% · 2023 14% · 2024 25% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Tasha Melvin
Executive director
Board chair
Carol Mansfield
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $117k → $310k.
13 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 funders by total. 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
FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
68% 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 FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 35% · 2019 41% · 2020 17% · 2021 28% · 2022 24% · 2023 32% — diversifying over time.
“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
43% of FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
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
88% of FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Government funding FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $734k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$734k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD: 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 FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD?
- FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD (North Carolina) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,514,163 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC ($662,009). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $3,514,163 in grants to FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD?
- UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC is the largest funder on record, with $662,009 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 60 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing