California · Nonprofit
LONG BEACH FORWARD INC
LONG BEACH FORWARD INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,963,046 to it, the largest being The Nonprofit Partnership ($6,760,205). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $163k
What Long Beach Forward Inc does
Mission
To create a healthy long beach with low-income communities of color by building community knowledge, leadership, and power.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Best start central long beach: best start central long beach is a network that brings parents, caregivers, organizations, and policymakers together to change policies and systems that improve the lives of children 0-5 and their families. The network focuses on improving childcare access, housing and economic security, healthy parenting, and child abuse prevention.
$451,115 spent46% of program spendingThe social housing for long beach project aims to expand the supply of quality, permanently affordable housing in low-income neighborhoods within the city of long beach to improve housing stability, economic security, and community wellbeing among children and families. The project was funded by all children thrive and the first 5 early childhood advocacy community opportunities flexible fund. Over the first year, the project has focused on building the leadership skills of community members and gathering the research and data needed to build a case for social housing production.
$166,911 spent17% of program spendingThe best start community projects are community-led projects that are designed by and carried out by members of the best start central long beach network through participatory budgeting and the best start central long beach leadership team. All the projects advance one of four goals in the collective community change agenda through policy and systems change. Projects included the leaders for change learning academy for housing and economic security, the childcare licensing incubator project for affordable and accessible childcare, and the home visitation collaborative for strengthening parenting knowledge and skills for low-income families.
$64,445 spentof which $38,626 as grants7% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$291,322 spentof which $8,000 as grants$37,316 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $973,793.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $296k (−81%).
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.
98% of LONG BEACH FORWARD INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
James Suazo
Executive director
Board chair
Cesar Armendariz
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $3k → $1.0M.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 LONG BEACH FORWARD INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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
LONG BEACH FORWARD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 LONG BEACH FORWARD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 65% · 2023 50% — 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
44% of LONG BEACH FORWARD INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of LONG BEACH FORWARD INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $535k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
LONG BEACH FORWARD INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,206 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LONG BEACH 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LONG BEACH 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 LONG BEACH FORWARD INC?
- LONG BEACH FORWARD INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,963,046 to it, the largest being The Nonprofit Partnership ($6,760,205). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LONG BEACH FORWARD INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $8,963,046 in grants to LONG BEACH FORWARD INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LONG BEACH FORWARD INC?
- The Nonprofit Partnership is the largest funder on record, with $6,760,205 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LONG BEACH FORWARD INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 20 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