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Forward Endeavors

Forward Endeavors (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,625 to it, the largest being REDF ($40,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$603k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$57k
Net assets
$39k
0/4 repeat funders
01What it does

What Forward Endeavors does

Mission

To create trauma-informed workplaces for individuals experiencing employment barriers such as poverty, homelessness, inexperience, and limited education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To create trauma-informed workplaces for individuals experiencing employment barriers - such as poverty, homelessness, inexperience, and limited education.In 24-25, we provided workforce development training to youth who face barriers to employment. We offered paid job skills and on the job training in a trauma-informed work environment. This year we provided job training to 20 individuals for a total of 2,380 hours of job training. Three individuals were hired permanently to our coffee shop. We hosted two trauma-informed care training sessions for staff and communitymembers.

    $536,208 spent$461,117 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $536,208.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($35k) Expenses 100 ($16k) Net assets 100 ($19k)2025 Revenue 1711 ($603k) Expenses 3687 ($583k) Net assets 203 ($39k)
20242025
Revenue (1711)Expenses (3687)Net assets (203)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 2024 to 2025, from $23k to $40k (+75%).

$23k
$40k
20242025
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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

23% of Forward Endeavors’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,932 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
’24
$20k
’25
0.8
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Forward Endeavors’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

Forward Endeavors leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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 Forward Endeavors.

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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 Forward Endeavors's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Forward Endeavors's revenue grew 1611% between 2024 and 2025.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1611% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Forward Endeavors

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Forward Endeavors: 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 Forward Endeavors?
Forward Endeavors (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,625 to it, the largest being REDF ($40,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Forward Endeavors have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $56,625 in grants to Forward Endeavors.
Who is the largest funder of Forward Endeavors?
REDF is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Forward Endeavors 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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