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FORKIDS INC

FORKIDS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 129 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,708,315 to it, the largest being THE LANDMARK FOUNDATION ($5,150,000). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$13M
Funders on record
129
Grants received
$27M
Net assets
$28M
74/129 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Forkids Inc does

Mission

With a mission of breaking the cycle of homelessness and poverty for families and children, forkids (forkids.org) provides comprehensive crisis response, shelter, housing, economic mobility and education programs across hampton roads.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Forkids provides a continuum of shelter, housing and economic mobility services that support families in obtaining and maintaining affordable housing, establishing family stability and establishing a living wage for long-term sustainability. For the year ended june 30, 2025, 885 households with 1,769 received housing and coaching services.

    $9,550,941 spent$46,110 earned by the program
    76% of program spending
  2. The education team at forkids ensures every student has the best chance to not just succeed in school, but to excel. Academic programs measurably close achievement gaps while enrichment activities and summer program reinforce learning, teach life skills and enhance social-emotional competencies. For the year ended june 30, 2025, 489 children received education services.

    $2,075,557 spent
    16% of program spending
  3. The housing crisis hotline, operated by forkids, serves as the central point of intake for households experiencing a housing crisis, answering 77,309 calls in fy25. Intake specialists connect callers to any one of hundreds of public and private resources throughout southeastern virginia. Forkids' extended services, spanning 14 localities and over 3,000 square miles, impacted nearly 75,000 people in fy25.

    $964,431 spent
    8% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,590,929.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8.6M) Expenses 100 ($6.7M) Net assets 100 ($9.7M)2018 Revenue 135 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($6.7M) Net assets 152 ($15M)2019 Revenue 180 ($16M) Expenses 110 ($7.4M) Net assets 236 ($23M)2020 Revenue 140 ($12M) Expenses 112 ($7.5M) Net assets 284 ($27M)2021 Revenue 180 ($16M) Expenses 208 ($14M) Net assets 301 ($29M)2022 Revenue 123 ($11M) Expenses 151 ($10M) Net assets 302 ($29M)2023 Revenue 137 ($12M) Expenses 174 ($12M) Net assets 305 ($30M)2024 Revenue 146 ($13M) Expenses 199 ($13M) Net assets 301 ($29M)2025 Revenue 148 ($13M) Expenses 219 ($15M) Net assets 285 ($28M)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (219)Net assets (285)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $15M to $23M (+53%).

$9.9M
$15M
$23M
$30M
$30M
$30M
$30M
$30M
$28M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 37% · 2018 26% · 2019 21% · 2020 36% · 2021 63% · 2022 43% · 2023 41% · 2024 43% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of FORKIDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 888 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.9M
’17
$5.0M
’18
$8.2M
’19
$4.6M
’20
$1.6M
’21
$499k
’22
$153k
’23
−$706k
’24
−$1.9M
’25
3.1
months of
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

Thaler Mccormick

Corporate secretary/CEO

Board chair

Blythe Ann Scott

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed333232282930302830
Joined·+4+7+4+8+8+2+7+5
No longer listed·57877293
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $2.8M.

16 of 129 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 FORKIDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 129 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

FORKIDS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

41% 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 FORKIDS INC.

19%
largest funder
45%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 47% · 2019 51% · 2020 17% · 2021 32% · 2022 15% · 2023 18% — 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

52% of FORKIDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

89% of FORKIDS INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

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

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Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.8M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FORKIDS INC is better cushioned than half of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding FORKIDS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.5M on record.

Federal$14.5M
grants $14.5Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$14.5M
  • National Endowment for the Arts$20k

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 FORKIDS 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 10%Fundraising 5%

Governance

27
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

Part of a family of 21 related entities

  • Forkids Foundation LLC · disregarded
  • Forkids Investments LLC · disregarded
  • Forkids Properties LLC · disregarded
  • 288 Lofts Gp LLC · partnership
  • 288 Lofts Phase II Gp LLC · partnership

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORKIDS 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 FORKIDS INC?
FORKIDS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 129 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,708,315 to it, the largest being THE LANDMARK FOUNDATION ($5,150,000). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FORKIDS INC have?
IRS filings report 129 organizations giving $26,708,315 in grants to FORKIDS INC, 74 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FORKIDS INC?
THE LANDMARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FORKIDS 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.

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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 129 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing