Colorado · Nonprofit
Kingdom Building Ministries
Kingdom Building Ministries (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,213,456 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,405,647). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Kingdom Building Ministries does
Mission
This mission of Forge is to expand Gods Kingdom by challenging people to fully devote their lives to God and equipping them to live lives of active ministry. Our goal is to set hearts on fire and lives on purpose.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Itinerant Speaking Ministry - During the year ended December 31, 2024, Forge speakers had the privilege of challenging people at 196 separate events. Forge speakers challenge individuals to spiritual decisions including first-time commitments to Jesus Christ, recommitments to Christ, and commitments to spiritual multiplication in others. Forge had 18 itinerant speakers for the year ended December 31, 2024, who partnered with local churches, denominations, universities, and ministry organizations to challenge people to become laborers. To develop future speakers in the Itinerant Speaking Ministry, Forge has launched the Firebrand program to equip future speakers to grow into the calling upon their lives. Forge had 10 Firebrand speakers during the year ended December 31, 2024.
$933,261 spentof which $82,439 as grants$235,006 earned by the program48% of program spendingEquipping - This youth and young adult training program is an intensive discipleship training that equips laborers to love God deeply, live a life of unique and distinct ministry, and leave an eternal spiritual legacy. This full-time, ranging from two-week up to two-month, program for young adults ages 18-29 includes classroom teaching, the potential of an international missions trip, and stateside service projects. Deep Camp - A multi-generational, 5-day discipleship training experience designed to take people deep in their walk with the Lord. The program includes sermons delivered by Forges Itinerant Speaking team and is focused on equipping participants to live with hearts on fire and lives on purpose. Other Forge Equipping Programs: Forge also offers various shorter programs throughout the year, including Plan A Conferences, Forge Fests, Forge Mobile-Equipping at a Distance, Life Arrow Planning, Outreach Camps, and Detour.
$672,964 spentof which $82,438 as grants34% of program spendingResources Ministry - Forge strives to put the life-changing messages of its speakers into accessible resources (print, electronic, audio, and video) which can be passed person to person. Primary resources include website content, the Forge app, the Forge Podcast called Fuel for the Harvest audio, and video messages of Forge speakers, booklets, and full-length books such as Plan A and Forged by Fire by ministry president, Dwight Robertson, as well as other books such as Mudrunner by Charlie Marq, ministry COO.
$356,180 spent$13,172 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,962,405.
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.
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 $1.4M to $1.9M (+38%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Dwight Robertson
President CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $167k → $283k.
8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 Kingdom Building Ministries’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
Kingdom Building Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 Kingdom Building Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 51% · 2019 56% · 2020 78% · 2021 43% · 2022 81% · 2023 87% — growing more concentrated.
“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
36% of Kingdom Building Ministries'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
91% of Kingdom Building Ministries'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 $197k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding Kingdom Building Ministries receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $155 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $155
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 Kingdom Building Ministries
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 Colorado
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
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 8 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Kingdom Building Ministries: 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 Kingdom Building Ministries?
- Kingdom Building Ministries (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,213,456 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,405,647). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Kingdom Building Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,213,456 in grants to Kingdom Building Ministries, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kingdom Building Ministries?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,405,647 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kingdom Building Ministries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 15 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