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PUSHING FORWARD INC

PUSHING FORWARD INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,018 to it, the largest being Chrysanta Foundation ($90,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$186k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$130k
Net assets
$68k
0/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Pushing Forward Inc does

Mission

Organizations primary exempt purpose to respond to the needs of individuals who have experienced traumatic spinal cord injuries (sci). Through acts of service and resource utilization, we allow individuals to be independent, empowered, engaged, and connected to their community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Supporting 12 children whose parents have experienced a traumatic spinal cord injury. Ensured these children had the Christmas they deserved.

    $801 spent
    4% of program spending

  2. Assisted with educational efforts by creating a video to educate individuals living with SCI about COVID-19 and how it can specifically impact them

    $808 spent
    4% of program spending

  3. Installed 11 wheelchair ramps for our patients in 2024

    $5,005 spent
    26% of program spending

  4. Other program services

    $12,558 spent
    66% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,172.

02The organization over time

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Kiara James

Executive director

Board chair

Briana Williams

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
2

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PUSHING 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

PUSHING FORWARD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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

31% 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 PUSHING FORWARD INC.

69%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

PUSHING FORWARD INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 2 states in all.

PA
NJ

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PUSHING FORWARD INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin33% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like PUSHING 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 Kentucky

Tip It Forward74%Gathering Strength Inc74%Watch Inc73%River Outreach Corporation72%Independence Seekers Project72%The Arc of Kentucky Inc72%River City Mission Inc72%Pathway of Hope Inc72%

Nationally

Passion for Compassion Inc80%Beyond Brain Injury80%Backbones80%Building Futures & Friends80%Tsf79%PUSH for Dreams79%Be Perfect Foundation79%Paralyzed Veterans of America Gateway Chapter79%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUSHING 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 PUSHING FORWARD INC?
PUSHING FORWARD INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,018 to it, the largest being Chrysanta Foundation ($90,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PUSHING FORWARD INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $130,018 in grants to PUSHING FORWARD INC.
Who is the largest funder of PUSHING FORWARD INC?
Chrysanta Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PUSHING FORWARD INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 3 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