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FORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP

FORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,041,415 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,101,586). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$2.2M
Revenue FY2025
26
Funders on record
$3.0M
Grants received
$3.4M
Net assets
17/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 58%

Against its field

FORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin42% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)68% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($99k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($45k)2020 Revenue 116 ($115k) Expenses 276 ($148k) Net assets 27 ($12k)2021 Revenue 520 ($515k) Expenses 687 ($369k) Net assets 393 ($178k)2022 Revenue 757 ($750k) Expenses 1091 ($587k) Net assets 752 ($341k)2023 Revenue 2062 ($2.0M) Expenses 1329 ($714k) Net assets 3683 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 1661 ($1.6M) Expenses 1666 ($895k) Net assets 5339 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 2260 ($2.2M) Expenses 2409 ($1.3M) Net assets 7447 ($3.4M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (2260)Expenses (2409)Net assets (7447)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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of FORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$45k
19
$33k
20
$146k
21
$163k
22
$1.3M
23
$751k
24
$945k
25
14
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $1k → $1.0M.

12 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)86% 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 FORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP’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

FORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

90% 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 FORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP.

36%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 72% · 2022 32% · 2023 76%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

60% of FORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

86% of FORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $424k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL
NY
PA
DE
DC

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

20
21
22
23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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 26 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 FORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP

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 Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

58% of spending goes to programs.

Program 58%Management 28%Fundraising 14%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

67%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP: 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 FORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP?
FORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,041,415 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,101,586). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $3,041,415 in grants to FORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,101,586 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 26funders 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