New Mexico · Nonprofit
Golden Forward Inc
Golden Forward Inc (New Mexico) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,000 to it, the largest being FUTURE FOCUSED EDUCATION ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $4k
What Golden Forward Inc does
Mission
We offer incarcerated individuals tools mentorship needed to develop artistic voices build career skills and envision futures focused on recovery and reintegration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Creating art and mental health activities for high school students at community and jail facilities while building expanded services to include transitional housing. Project served 360 people
$75,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $75,000.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sheri Crider
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Golden Forward Inc’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
Golden Forward Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
94% 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 Golden Forward Inc.
“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 Golden Forward Inc's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Golden Forward Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Golden Forward Inc
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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Golden Forward Inc: 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 Golden Forward Inc?
- Golden Forward Inc (New Mexico) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,000 to it, the largest being FUTURE FOCUSED EDUCATION ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Golden Forward Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $80,000 in grants to Golden Forward Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Golden Forward Inc?
- FUTURE FOCUSED EDUCATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Golden Forward Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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