East Fort Worth Business Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 751583288
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8174969477
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,968
- Expenses
- $21,938
- Assets
- $102,755
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Shedd (President & CEO)
- Jason Ray (Past President)
- David Salgado (President-Elect)
People named in this filing
- Brian Builta (Director)
- Wanda Conlin (Secretary)
- Don Boren (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The association concerns itself with the supply and distribution of commerce and trade in East Fort Worth. It provides a monthly luncheon on topics related to the growth and development of East Fort Worth. It provides an atmosphere for business to interact in an attempt to develop relationships for friendships, community, and business. It intends to develop, implement and advertise the economics of East Fort Worth. It is a voice for the advancement, development, improvement of the infra-structure of East Fort Worth. It reviews and critiques issues and projects of interest to business and the community of East Fort Worth.
What it reported doing in 2025
The association provides a monthly luncheon meeting. It provides a speaker from the local community who speaks on a topic which relates to the growth and development of East Fort Worth. It provides an opportunity for people in business in our community to meet and develop business relationships. The attendence for the total of all the monthly meetings was approximately 400.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18.8%; rating input score 19
- Program expense ratio: 24.8%; rating input score 25
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.3%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.68; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 18.8% of revenue deployed · 24.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.