Tennessee · Nonprofit
The Forsaken Children Inc
The Forsaken Children Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,079 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($177,365). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $299k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $339k
- Net assets
- $133k
What The Forsaken Children Inc does
Mission
The Forsaken Children works with Ethiopian partners to rescue children from the streets, restore them to family and school, and rebuild lasting hope through education and Christs love.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
During 2025 through TFCs partnership with Make Your Mark, funding was provided for two drop-in centers in Ethopia. This ministry provides a safe place to get boys & girls off the streets; get food, basic education, counseling, and play therapy; and be reunited with family when possible. Funding also supports the Keeping Kids Home outreach to families at risk of children living on the streets. They recieve food/school support and education for parents. These programs impacted approximately 175 directly and 250 indirectly (family members of kids in the program).
$106,524 spentof which $90,768 as grants48% of program spendingDuring 2025 through TFCs partnership with Global Outreach International, over 100 people were served by Joe Bridges trauma training ministry. This promotes emotional healing by training the staff to know how to help children have language and skills to talk about their deep heart wounds and trauma experiences. Approximately 4,000 girls were provided with washable, reusable, affordable pads while also being educated about their developing bodies through the WRAPS ministry. This promotes education by helping girls stay in school and not fall behind by missing school during their menstrual cycle each month.
$75,455 spentof which $65,100 as grants34% of program spendingDuring 2025 through TFCs partnership with Arise Global, funding was provided to an outreach ministry to girls ages 16-25 who have been trafficked into the underground sex trade in Ethiopia, providing job training and tools to live a full life outside of the sex industry. Arise Global served around 400 young adults in 2025.
$39,947 spentof which $35,300 as grants18% of program spendingDuring 2025 through TFCs partnership with Spring of Life Ministries, funding was provided for mission work in Ethiopia.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $221,926.
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. 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 2019 to 2020, from $60k to $94k (+57%).
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of The Forsaken Children Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Don Gilbert
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $77k.
6 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Forsaken Children 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
The Forsaken Children Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Forsaken Children Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 61% · 2023 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of The Forsaken Children Inc'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 $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $339k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 Forsaken Children Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Forsaken Children 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Forsaken Children 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 The Forsaken Children Inc?
- The Forsaken Children Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,079 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($177,365). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Forsaken Children Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $339,079 in grants to The Forsaken Children Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Forsaken Children Inc?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $177,365 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Forsaken Children Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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