Maryland · Nonprofit
THE UNFORGOTTEN
THE UNFORGOTTEN (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,979 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($99,450). 4 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 FY2025
- $129k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $167k
- Net assets
- $197k
What The Unforgotten does
Mission
The Unforgotten has been operational since 2007, and has completed hunger relief, water, medical, and education projects around the world, and to this day remains managed by volunteers in the US, so all donations can be directed to where it is needed most - to provide humanitarian relief in the field. To this date, The Unforgotten remains one of the only charities in the world providing aid to vulnerable women and children surviving as wastepickers in developing countries.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Supporting primary schooling of child wastepickers in Zambia, Yemen, Djibouti, Nepal,Sierra Leone, Bangladesh, India. Throughout 2024, The Unforgotten provided financial support to 60 children in Lusaka, Zambia, 5 in Sanaa, Yemen, 19 in Djibouti City, Djibouti, 21 in Kathmandu, Nepal, 45 in Freetown, Sierra Leone, 20 in Dhaka, Bangladesh and 20 in Jaipur, India. Paid for school fees, supplies, transportation, meals, scholarships, lodging, tutoring, uniforms, shoes. These children were previously not attending school and instead were living in/around landfills, looking through the waste for food to eat and items to sell, earning about 50 cents per day. The Unforgotten enrolled these former wastepickers in school. As of December 2025, our aid to these children has been very successful. All of the children are progressing through school and their academic performance has been commendable. The children have not returned to wastepicking in order to eat and earn a few cents, but have instead focused on their studies. Their guardians have been very supportive of the children's education and grateful for the aid.
$88,193 spentof which $28,233 as grants78% of program spendingProviding aid to Child Bright Children's Home in Nepal. Paid for the education, health care, facilities, supplies and staff to provide care for 21 orphans.
$20,225 spentof which $20,040 as grants18% of program spendingHumanitarian relief. Early childhood development services in Shivapuri Rural Municipality, Nepal
$5,045 spent4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $113,463.
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 2020 to 2021, from $106k to $169k (+60%).
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 THE UNFORGOTTEN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Amit Kapadia
President-Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $21k.
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 UNFORGOTTEN’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 UNFORGOTTEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 UNFORGOTTEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 44% · 2022 53% · 2023 90% — 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
97% of THE UNFORGOTTEN'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $162k 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 UNFORGOTTEN holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 UNFORGOTTEN
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE UNFORGOTTEN: 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 UNFORGOTTEN?
- THE UNFORGOTTEN (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,979 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($99,450). 4 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 UNFORGOTTEN have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $166,979 in grants to THE UNFORGOTTEN, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE UNFORGOTTEN?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $99,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE UNFORGOTTEN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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