Virginia · Nonprofit
FORE CHILDREN INC
FORE CHILDREN INC (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $626,500 to it, the largest being ROBINS FOUNDATION ($512,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $167k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $627k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Fore Children Inc does
Mission
Teach critical life skills necessary for underserved children to be better prepared to navigate the minefields of their formative years so they can enter adulthood armed with the tools for success. These skills will be the framework for the next generation to rethink solutions to perpetual problems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Fore children, inc. Provided scholarships and covered expenses for the robins junior golf program. Through the robins junior golf program, more than 16,000 youths have been exposed to golf since 2001. The costs for all programs at independence golf club are nominal and scholarships are available to assist those that require financial support. The scholarship program enables children of organizations like the police athletic league of richmond, chesterfield and henrico, ymca, challenge discovery projects, city department of parks and recreation, virginia home for boys and girls, elk hill high school, and the boys home to attend camp. The junior program uses the nine hole short course and clubhouse amphitheater in teaching children to golf. Facilities also include a junior clubhouse with a dining hall and four dormitories. Participants leave the robins junior golf program with improved skills and technical knowledge of the rules of golf, an appreciation of its history, traditions, and etiquette and, most importantly, an ability to transfer those behaviors practiced on the course to their daily lives. Honesty, integrity, and respect as they relate to the rules of life are the…
$8,004 spentof which $8,004 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,004.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $47k to $94k (+102%).
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.
100% of FORE CHILDREN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $150k → $8k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 FORE CHILDREN 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
FORE CHILDREN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 70% · 2023 67% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
92% of FORE CHILDREN INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
FORE CHILDREN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FORE CHILDREN INC
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
6% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 FORE CHILDREN 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 FORE CHILDREN INC?
- FORE CHILDREN INC (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $626,500 to it, the largest being ROBINS FOUNDATION ($512,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORE CHILDREN INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $626,500 in grants to FORE CHILDREN INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORE CHILDREN INC?
- ROBINS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $512,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORE CHILDREN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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