Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL
FORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,413,277 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($551,224). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $0
What Forgotten Voices International does
Mission
Closed as of 8/31/24 - for nearly 20 years our mission was: Forgotten Voices International's (fvi) mission is to demonstrate the love of jesus by partnering with local churches in southern africa to empower families and caregivers to meet the spiritual, emotional, and physical needs of orphaned and vulnerable children in their communities. Our hope is to see every child experience the love of god and the security of a family, church, and community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization ceased operations on 8/31/24.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Following the formal closure of Forgotten Voices International on 8/31/2024, the board dispersed the remaining funds raised to accomplish the following activities: supply all forgotten voices zambia, zimbabwe, malawi and us staff members with 3 months' severance - (funds were sent in late august to our africa staff; us staff received their severance over the subsequent months). Fund our remaining operational bills to close down the organization properly including our final review & 990 filing with our accounting & audit firm for 2023/2024 as well as 990 filing for 2024/2025 fiscal year. All three local forgotten voices offices closed their organizations tied to Forgotten Voices International and subsequently forgotten voices zambia and forgotten voices zimbabwe restarted their work as independent entities. Forgotten Voices International was able to send our remaining funds after expenses listed previously to both organizations to support their efforts to continue the mission.
$70,040 spentof which $41,026 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $70,040.
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 2017 to 2018, from $519k to $274k (−47%).
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: 2020 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Board chair
Stephen Proctor
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $202k → $198k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 FORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL’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
FORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 FORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 62% · 2019 56% · 2020 43% · 2021 44% · 2022 45% · 2023 75% — 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
23% of FORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
51% of FORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL'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 $693k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $720k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like FORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 FORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL: 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 FORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL?
- FORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,413,277 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($551,224). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,413,277 in grants to FORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $551,224 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORGOTTEN VOICES INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 15 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