Missouri · Nonprofit
FORWARD THROUGH FERGUSON
FORWARD THROUGH FERGUSON (Missouri) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,337,734 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($333,846). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $875k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $813k
What Forward Through Ferguson does
Mission
Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, Forward Through Ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. Louis region can thrive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Racial equity capacity: ftf helps people and institutions find their starting point, strategize the journey forward, create "next practices", and discover how to be a radically accountable partner in systems change and equity. We do this by conducting workshops, interventions, and assessments that support institutional transformation, creating and sharing curated toolkits to support institutions transforming towards racial equity; publicly tracking institutional and regional progress towards racial equity with accountability to the ferguson commission. Report; amplifying success stories of institutions transforming towards racial equity; and convening redi (racial equity, diversity and inclusion) and organizational development practitioners to foster synergy and measurable progress towards racial equity.
$273,699 spent$121,330 earned by the program36% of program spendingCommunications: by focusing on communications and community storytelling, ftf builds community awareness, elevates the stories of those most impacted by racial inequity, amplifies the stories of people advocating for positive changes, and connects advocates to opportunities to advance racial equity in their neighborhoods, organizations, and sphere of influence.
$160,016 spent21% of program spendingPolicy and systems change: to achieve policy and systems wins that will drive population-level outcome shifts towards racial equity, we support issue-based advocacy campaigns, engage in grass roots organizing, and build opportunities for decision making by communities most impacted by systemic racism. We particularly focus our campaigns and efforts on education, public safety transformation, and racial healing and justice.
$159,824 spent21% of program spendingData & research: the data and research initiatives use the tools of human-centered data, research, and storytelling to catalyze and measure impact, facilitate accountability, deepen understanding, and imagine what's possible on the path to racial equity. It does so through 3 primary activities: data storytelling, movement tracking, and internal support/impact measurement.
$163,066 spent22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $756,605.
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 2019 to 2020, from $116k to $1.1M (+824%).
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 2% · 2020 0% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of FORWARD THROUGH FERGUSON’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Annissa Mccaskill
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $76k → $207k.
9 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 THROUGH FERGUSON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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 THROUGH FERGUSON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
84% 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 THROUGH FERGUSON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 86% · 2019 54% · 2020 30% · 2021 44% · 2022 25% · 2023 35% — 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 THROUGH FERGUSON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
67% of FORWARD THROUGH FERGUSON'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 $438k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $900k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
FORWARD THROUGH FERGUSON is better cushioned than half of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FORWARD THROUGH FERGUSON
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORWARD THROUGH FERGUSON: 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 THROUGH FERGUSON?
- FORWARD THROUGH FERGUSON (Missouri) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,337,734 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($333,846). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FORWARD THROUGH FERGUSON have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,337,734 in grants to FORWARD THROUGH FERGUSON, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORWARD THROUGH FERGUSON?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $333,846 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORWARD THROUGH FERGUSON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 33 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