Virginia · Nonprofit
FORMED FAMILIES FORWARD
FORMED FAMILIES FORWARD (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,150 to it, the largest being The Human Services Alliance of Greater Prince William Inc ($180,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $414k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $239k
- Net assets
- $430k
What Formed Families Forward does
Mission
Formed Families Forward's mission is to improve development, educational, social, emotional, and post-secondary outcomes for children and youth with disabilities and other special needs. This is accomplished through providing information, training, and support to adoptive and foster parents, and kinship caregivers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
More than three dozen trainings were provided for adoptive and foster care parents, kinship caregivers, and education and social service professionals. Over 1400 individuals participated in training and events. Topics included: understanding trauma impact building resilience advocating for special educational needs of children in care making special education work for children in adoptive, foster, and kinship families educational impact of prenatal alcohol and drug exposure consultations: over 90 parents, caregivers, and professionals received direct consultations. Support provided: responded to requests for information, systems navigation, and resource linkages. Resource directory: hosts an online directory with descriptions and hotlinks to local, regional, state, and national organizations, groups, and businesses supporting needs such as educational, disability, independent living, mental and physical health, accessed by over 30,000 users with over 4,000 newsletter subscribers. Peer support groups: several groups are hosted for young adults, parents, and kinship caregivers. All services are provided free of charge.
$303,117 spent$41,740 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $303,117.
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 2022 to 2023, from $265k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2017 91% · 2018 88% · 2019 91% · 2020 69% · 2021 44% · 2022 72% · 2024 79% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of FORMED FAMILIES FORWARD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Kelly Henderson
Executive director
Board chair
Nancy J Thompson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $35 → $24k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 FORMED FAMILIES FORWARD’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
FORMED FAMILIES FORWARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 FORMED FAMILIES FORWARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 88% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of FORMED FAMILIES FORWARD's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
FORMED FAMILIES FORWARD runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding FORMED FAMILIES FORWARD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Education$1.1M
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 FORMED FAMILIES FORWARD
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORMED FAMILIES FORWARD: 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 FORMED FAMILIES FORWARD?
- FORMED FAMILIES FORWARD (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,150 to it, the largest being The Human Services Alliance of Greater Prince William Inc ($180,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORMED FAMILIES FORWARD have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $239,150 in grants to FORMED FAMILIES FORWARD, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORMED FAMILIES FORWARD?
- The Human Services Alliance of Greater Prince William Inc is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORMED FAMILIES FORWARD 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 6 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