Redeemer ForgeGive

For funders

Information for grant makers.

How support for Redeemer Forge is structured, and exactly where the organization stands today. Giving opens once the corporation’s bank account and its Florida charitable-solicitation filing are in place; until then nothing is charged.

One-page fact sheetDue-diligence questions

In brief

What a grant maker asks first.

Grantee
Redeemer Forge, Inc., a Florida corporation not for profit. One legal entity for all three divisions.
Restricted grants
Accepted for one division or purpose, recorded in the funder’s own words and spent only on it.
Where it works
Jacksonville and Duval County, Florida, in person. Bible Guide online, anywhere.
Fields of work
Scripture publishing; youth mentoring; young people in and leaving foster care; congregational care.
Paid staff
None. Directors serve without pay.
Reporting
Money in and out, by division, published every quarter from the first dollar.

Structure

One grantee, three divisions.

Every grant is made to Redeemer Forge, Inc., the single legal entity. A grant may be restricted to one division, and restricted funds are used only for that division.

The three divisions

The need, the work, and how we will know.

Each division read the same way: the public figure behind it, what it does, what already exists, and what it will be measured against.

Bible Guide

Live

The need

28 of 32

mental-health and prayer apps reviewed by Mozilla earned its privacy warning label, and 25 failed its minimum security standards.

Mozilla Foundation, *Privacy Not Included (2022)

What it does

Bible Guide loads nothing from advertisers or trackers, asks for no account, and does not know who is reading.

The website is live with substantial published content. A free phone app is planned and not yet built.

In place today

  • 5,607 topics drawn from three public-domain topical works
  • Biographical pages for 112 rulers, 26 apostles and early-church figures, and 61 prophets
  • An atlas of biblical places
  • Search that runs entirely in the reader’s own browser
  • Every source text published with its licence and checksum; the site’s code is public under the MIT licence

How we will know

  • The material is read
  • It stays free of ads, trackers and sign-in walls
  • The library grows
  • Every text is properly licensed

Redeemer Pathways

Planned — not yet operating

The need

1,416

children in foster care in Duval County in 2024 — 597.9 per 100,000, against 464.9 for Florida as a whole.

Florida Department of Health, FLHealthCharts (2024)

What it does

Redeemer Pathways is planned as a free, supervised place after school, with a mentor paying attention, and Grow puts the tools young people leaving foster care need in one place.

The program and its website are designed. No sessions are running: the safeguarding policy is drafted but not yet adopted, and no volunteer screening has taken place.

In place today

  • Three tracks defined: Fellowship Gaming (kindergarten–5th grade), Genesis Labs (5th–12th grade) and Grow (foster youth)
  • A public website describing the program and its curriculum
  • A drafted safeguarding policy, including Level 2 background screening for every adult volunteer

How we will know

  • Young people come consistently
  • Participants finish what they make
  • Participants gain a practical skill
  • Every adult with a young person is screened

Church Family

In development

The need

About half

of American adults report experiencing loneliness.

U.S. Surgeon General, Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation (2023)

What it does

Church Family makes it easy to ask the people sitting three rows away for a ride, a meal or a hand, and easy for them to say yes.

The site is built and being redesigned. No congregation is using it yet.

In place today

  • Needs, offers and acceptance tracked from posting to “met”
  • Church administrators approve their own members; new churches are verified
  • Item giveaways, events and ministries alongside needs

How we will know

  • Needs posted get met
  • Help arrives quickly
  • Help is shared, not carried by a few
  • Congregations keep using it

Current status

What is in place, and what is not.

We would rather you read it here than discover it in due diligence.

  1. Done

    Articles of Incorporation filed

    With the Florida Department of State, 21 October 2026.

  2. In progress

    State approval

    Pending. The state document number is published here once issued.

  3. To come

    Federal employer identification number

    Applied for once the state approves the Articles.

  4. To come

    Full board seated

    Three directors. One is seated; two are to be named.

  5. To come

    Bylaws and conflict-of-interest policy adopted

    At the first meeting of the full board.

  6. To come

    Bank account in the corporation’s name

    Opened once the board has met.

  7. To come

    Application for federal tax-exempt status

    Not yet filed.

  8. To come

    Florida charitable-solicitation filing

    Required before the organization asks the public for gifts. Not yet filed.

Documents

The papers, as each one exists.

Each becomes a download on the day it exists. Drafts are never posted.

  • Articles of Incorporation

    The filing that created the corporation, filed 21 October 2026; state approval pending.

    Read it

  • Bylaws

    How the board governs: directors, officers, meetings, programs and restricted gifts.

    Posted once the board adopts them at its first meeting

  • Conflict-of-interest policy

    Based on the IRS sample policy, with each director’s and officer’s yearly statement.

    Posted once the board adopts it at its first meeting

  • Safeguarding policy

    How Redeemer Pathways keeps children safe: screening, the two-adult rule and reporting.

    Posted once the board adopts it, before any session runs

  • Employer identification number letter

    The federal tax identification number issued to the corporation.

    Posted once the IRS issues it

  • IRS determination letter

    The IRS’s decision on the federal application (Form 1023-EZ).

    Posted once the IRS issues it

  • Florida charitable-solicitation filing

    The state filing required before the corporation asks the public for gifts.

    Posted once filed

  • Annual financial report

    Income, spending and balances for the year, by division, as presented to the board.

    Posted after the first full year

Due diligence

The questions we expect, answered.

If yours is not here, write to us and the answer will be added.

Who would receive the grant, and can it be restricted?

Every grant is made to Redeemer Forge, Inc. It may be restricted to one division or to one purpose within a division, and restricted money is spent only on what it was given for.

How is a restricted grant tracked?

Each restricted gift is recorded with the giver, the date, the amount and the restriction in the giver’s own words, and its balance is followed until it is spent. Each division’s income, spending and balance are kept separately in one set of books.

Open books
Who checks the spending?

Two signatures for any payment over $1,000, and the board’s approval for any spending over $2,500 or any contract longer than a year. A majority of the board must be unpaid and unrelated to anyone the corporation pays.

The board and the founder
Is anyone paid?

No one. The corporation has no paid staff and its directors serve without pay. If that ever changes, pay may be approved only by directors with no conflict, after comparing what at least three similar organizations pay.

Do participants have to share your faith?

No. The work is openly Christian and says so. Bible Guide asks nothing of its readers. Redeemer Pathways opens and closes each session with prayer and tells parents so before a child joins; no child has to pray, profess faith or belong to a church to take part, and none is treated differently for it.

Policies
How will you report on results?

Each division page lists the outcomes it will be measured against and how each is counted. Targets are set once there is a first year of results to set them against, and are published beside the measures.

Year-one budget

What the organization costs to run.

Known costs are stated; anything not yet priced says so. Draft, for the board to adopt.

ItemCostBasis
Articles of Incorporation (Florida)$70Paid on filing, 21 October 2026
Federal application to the IRS (Form 1023-EZ)$275Once
Florida annual report$61.25Every year, from 2027
Registration of the three division names (Florida)$150$50 each, renewed every five years
Florida charitable-solicitation filing$0Free while gifts stay under $50,000 a year
Directors’ and general liability insuranceTo be pricedYearly

2027 roadmap

What comes next, in order.

The board sets each target date at its first meeting.

  1. Date to be set

    State approval of the Articles

  2. Date to be set

    Federal employer identification number

  3. Date to be set

    First meeting of the full board: bylaws and policies adopted

  4. Date to be set

    Bank account in the corporation’s name

  5. Date to be set

    Federal application to the IRS (Form 1023-EZ) filed

  6. Date to be set

    Florida charitable-solicitation filing; giving opens

  7. Date to be set

    First quarterly Open Books report

At a glance

The organization, in facts.

Legal name
Redeemer Forge, Inc.
Form
Florida corporation not for profit (Chapter 617, Florida Statutes)
Articles of Incorporation
Filed 21 October 2026 · state approval pending
Headquarters
Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida
Governance
Board of directors; no voting members
Federal tax status
Not yet applied for
Fiscal year
Calendar year
Paid staff
None

Last reviewed October 2026. These facts are updated as each filing is completed.

Contact

Questions about the organization or a division.

Write to us for program descriptions, the formation documents or a conversation.

amen@bibleguide.io