Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FORWARD SERVICE CORPORATION
FORWARD SERVICE CORPORATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,734,602 to it, the largest being BAY AREA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC ($6,928,001). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Forward Service Corporation does
Mission
Forward Service Corporation's mission is to transform lives by helping individuals realize a larger sense of possibility about the person they can become.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth - Forward Service Corporation offers a wide range of services to help young people develop the skills, attitudes and commitment necessary to fulfill their educational goals and succeed in today's world of work. Employment services for youth include: career awareness, career counseling, occupational skills training, paid and unpaid work experience (such as internships, apprenticeships and job shadowing), resume and cover letter development, interview prep, job coaching, work-readiness skill development, life skills and leadership development and job placement. Educational services include: academic and cultural enrichment activities, problem-based learning, act prep, financial aid application assistance, study skills training, mentoring, tutoring, basic education instruction leading to completion of secondary school and post-secondary education prep and support.
$5,112,023 spentof which $1,108,860 as grants17% of program spendingEmployment and training - Forward Service Corporation offers a wide range of services to help adults develop the skills, attitudes and commitment necessary to fulfill their educational and employment goals and succeed in today's world of work. Employment services include: career awareness, career counseling, occupational skills training, job placement, paid and unpaid work experience (such as internships, apprenticeships and job shadowing), resume and cover letter development, interview prep, job coaching, work-readiness skill development, life skills and leadership development.
$25,809,684 spentof which $6,188,751 as grants83% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,921,707.
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 2020 to 2021, from $13M to $17M (+33%).
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 90% · 2018 85% · 2019 90% · 2020 87% · 2021 91% · 2022 91% · 2023 92% · 2024 92% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of FORWARD SERVICE CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Michelle Szabrowicz
CEO
Board chair
Rick Parks
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $867k → $2.0M.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 SERVICE CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 17 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
FORWARD SERVICE CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 SERVICE CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 77% · 2021 44% · 2022 65% · 2023 46% — 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
40% of FORWARD SERVICE CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
98% of FORWARD SERVICE CORPORATION's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FORWARD SERVICE CORPORATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 290 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FORWARD SERVICE CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.8M on record.
- Department of Education$19.5M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$269k
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 FORWARD SERVICE CORPORATION
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- American Business Resource Corporation · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORWARD SERVICE CORPORATION: 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 SERVICE CORPORATION?
- FORWARD SERVICE CORPORATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,734,602 to it, the largest being BAY AREA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC ($6,928,001). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORWARD SERVICE CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $13,734,602 in grants to FORWARD SERVICE CORPORATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORWARD SERVICE CORPORATION?
- BAY AREA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,928,001 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORWARD SERVICE CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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