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FORWARD LEAP FOUNDATION

FORWARD LEAP FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,000 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$192k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$270k
Net assets
$206k
4/11 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Forward Leap Foundation does

Mission

Our mission is to facilitate effective social and environmental issues messaging for distribution to a broad audience.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. FoodSort Heroes is an initiative to educate consumers about the environmental impact of food waste, and the importance of separating food waste from trash to facilitate curbside collection. The project is developing an app that will use gamification techniques to promote food waste separation behavior.

    $101,250 spent
    99% of program spending
  2. Project Forty-Eight (P48) educates students, stakeholder groups and arts/culture audiences across the US about the Nakba, i.e. the mass expulsion of the Palestinian people from their ancestral homes and lands during the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. Created curriculums for use in secondary schools and universities.

    $1,113 spentof which $101,250 as grants
    1% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $102,363.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($108k) Expenses 100 ($20k) Net assets 100 ($88k)2021 Revenue 58 ($62k) Expenses 460 ($91k) Net assets 67 ($59k)2022 Revenue 43 ($46k) Expenses 407 ($81k) Net assets 28 ($24k)2023 Revenue 141 ($151k) Expenses 247 ($49k) Net assets 145 ($127k)2024 Revenue 179 ($192k) Expenses 570 ($113k) Net assets 235 ($206k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (179)Expenses (570)Net assets (235)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 2022 to 2023, from $24k to $127k (+418%).

$88k
$59k
$24k
$127k
$206k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of FORWARD LEAP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$88k
’20
−$29k
’21
−$34k
’22
$102k
’23
$79k
’24

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Eric Urbani

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $35k → $115k.

7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 LEAP FOUNDATION’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 LEAP FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

56% 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 LEAP FOUNDATION.

19%
largest funder
50%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 71% · 2021 100% · 2022 42% · 2023 43% — 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

29% of FORWARD LEAP FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

56% of FORWARD LEAP FOUNDATION'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 $120k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.

NY
PA
DC

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

’20
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FORWARD LEAP FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin41% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like FORWARD LEAP FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

37%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FORWARD LEAP FOUNDATION?
FORWARD LEAP FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,000 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FORWARD LEAP FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $270,000 in grants to FORWARD LEAP FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FORWARD LEAP FOUNDATION?
FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FORWARD LEAP FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 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