North Carolina · Nonprofit
ZAM FORWARD
ZAM FORWARD (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 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
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $28k
What Zam Forward does
Mission
Zam Forward supports agricultural development and community-based assistance initiatives in rural Zambia, focused on improving food security, income generation, and sustainable local economic development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The organization supported rural farming communities through oversight and support of shared agriculturalprocessing equipment, including milling and oil pressing operations, as well as community-based beekeeping initiatives. These efforts increase local crop value, promote income generation, and support sustainable agricultrual practices.
$14,670 spent52% of program spendingThe organization provided seeds and fertilizer assistance to rural farmers to promote impoved crop yields, food security,and sustainable agricultural practices.
$4,790 spent17% of program spendingProgram implementation costs directly supporting agricultural initiatives, including local worker compensation,transportation, tools, and other operational expenses necessary to execute agricultural developmentactivies in rural Zambia. Limited educational support expenditures during 2025 were included within this category.
$8,698 spent31% of program spendingAgricultural development. Coordinated a honey project with 350 small scale village farmers for a total of 3500 hives. Provided seeds and fertilizer for 120 Zambian Farmers. Worked with farmers to promote sustainable farming techniques and assisted them to find appropriate markets for their crops.Educational development. Provided hygiene supplies to 3 rural primary schools (grade 1-7) with a total of 1271 students. Provided notebooks and pens/pencils to 1271 students. Provided backpacks and school shoes to 139 vulnerable (orphans or otherwise disadvantaged) students.Zambian general support. Provided support for 2 workers including transportation, food, and lodging. Purchased general tools and equipment for the workers to use as well as rental of storage facilities for the equipment.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,158.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $43k to $31k (−27%).
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.
99% of ZAM FORWARD’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Stephen Kines
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 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 ZAM FORWARD’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.
Where its funders are
100% of ZAM FORWARD'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Against its field
ZAM FORWARD has grown faster than half of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ZAM FORWARD
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 ZAM FORWARD: 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 ZAM FORWARD?
- ZAM FORWARD (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 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 ZAM FORWARD have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to ZAM FORWARD.
- Who is the largest funder of ZAM FORWARD?
- BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ZAM FORWARD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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