Kansas · Nonprofit
The Forge Initiative
The Forge Initiative (Kansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $321,027 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($150,027). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $633k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $321k
- Net assets
- $213k
What The Forge Initiative does
Mission
The Forge Initiative Inc. intends to create a social support structure for men by providing counseling and life coaching services and facilitating character- and relationship-building from a Christian-theistic perspective.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Counseling: Counseled 96 men for over 1000 hours. Helped these men overcome anxiety, depression, addiction, and other ailments that necessarily limit their ability to be leaders in their homes. Developed 6 month biblical counseling program to train staff, volunteers, and members how to care for one another.
$145,488 spent$20,770 earned by the program70% of program spendingLeader Equipping, Training, and Mentoring: Utilized 100-page leadership training manual to train men in biblical counseling principles and group facilitation techniques. Trained 70 men upon completion over the course of 8 sessions in order to help them hone their leadership skills. Mentored 15 leaders on a weekly basis to help them improve their counseling skills, listening to the difficulties they face and encouraging them as they put biblical counseling skills into practice.
$47,557 spent23% of program spendingGroups and Events: Hosted weekly meetups for 8 groups as well as 4 major events helping over 400 men make friendships and connections with other men in the community. Events were led by trained individuals or counselors helping men meet face-to-face to work through their problems and concerns. Such groups and events provided support and perspective to individuals struggling on their own.
$16,010 spent$571 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $209,055.
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 2023 to 2024, from $54k to $225k (+314%).
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.
96% of The Forge Initiative’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% 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.
Board chair
Jonathan Crabtree
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 The Forge Initiative’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
The Forge Initiative leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 The Forge Initiative.
“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
97% of The Forge Initiative'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Kansas, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $311k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
The Forge Initiative runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Forge Initiative
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
45% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 The Forge Initiative: 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 The Forge Initiative?
- The Forge Initiative (Kansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $321,027 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($150,027). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Forge Initiative have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $321,027 in grants to The Forge Initiative, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Forge Initiative?
- Servant Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $150,027 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Forge Initiative find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 5 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