California · Nonprofit
FORGIVENESS MINISTRIES INC
FORGIVENESS MINISTRIES INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,394 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($172,280). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $110k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $172k
- Net assets
- $-3772
What Forgiveness Ministries Inc does
Mission
| Explanation:| Primary Exempt Purpose: Forgiveness Ministries is a Christian ministry whose purpose is to help: 1. Individuals to learn and practice all aspects of authentic biblical forgiveness so that God may heal their souls and restore broken relationships. This includes: How to fully receive Gods forgiveness. How to effectively forgive others. How to sincerely ask others to forgive us. How to overcome self-condemnation. How to resolve anger towards God. How to restore broken relationships. How to promote and encourage love and justice in relationships 2. Churches and Christian organizations to become better communities of forgiveness where: People are welcome and accepted as they are. People are helped into a healing loving lifestyle. Justice and fairness are promoted between genders ages races nationalities etc.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
| Explanation:| Program Services 1. Live Teaching: Two weekly small groups helping over 20 people Free individual counseling was given to over 55 estimated people throughout the year. Mentoring training sessions were given to seven church leaders. Was interviewed six times on KFAX radio in the San Francisco Bay Area. Responded to over 120 estimated phone and e-mail contacts 2. Print Teaching: Distributed over 70 estimate copies of our book Developing a Lifestyle of Forgiveness. Distributed over 50 estimate copies of our book What You Might Not Know About Forgiveness. Distributed over 300 estimate of our Focus on Forgiveness brochures. Continued writing a new book How to Become More Like Jesus. Wrote the book Why Jesus Died to be published in 2026 3. Internet Teaching: Weekly Facebook posts reaching over 1,200 followers. Regular newsletters teaching forgiveness to over 690 people. Promoted our 38 teaching videos on our YouTube channel. Training over 100 Christian leaders in Africa and Asia via the internet
$93,252 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $93,252.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $3k to $7k (+129%).
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.
99% of FORGIVENESS MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Steven S Diehl
Board Member Chairman Key Employee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $18k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FORGIVENESS MINISTRIES 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
FORGIVENESS MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 FORGIVENESS MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
100% of FORGIVENESS MINISTRIES INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $172k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
FORGIVENESS MINISTRIES INC's revenue grew 20% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FORGIVENESS MINISTRIES 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FORGIVENESS MINISTRIES INC?
- FORGIVENESS MINISTRIES INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,394 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($172,280). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FORGIVENESS MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $172,394 in grants to FORGIVENESS MINISTRIES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORGIVENESS MINISTRIES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $172,280 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORGIVENESS MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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