Ferguson Road Initiative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752797489
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2143245116
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $400,287
- Expenses
- $325,746
- Assets
- $436,781
- Liabilities
- $1,723
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Vikki Martin (Executive Director)
- Jared Greco (President)
- Christopher Jackson (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Vikki Martin (Executive Director): $56,410 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Engage and empower a community of advocates to advance a safe, beautiful, prosperous and proud community in Far East Dallas.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community-Building: FRI serves as a backbone organization in Far East Dallas, operating as a grassroots, participatory organization whose key program is community-building. Its approach is intentional and strategic, beginning with the identification of service gaps and the formation of project coalitions to address community needs. By mobilizing local leadership and fostering collaboration, FRI works to improve the overall quality of life in Far East Dallas. The organization provides continuous support by guiding vision and strategy, securing funding, convening stakeholders, aligning activities, and establishing shared measurements. It also plays a key role in building public trust, communicating progress, advancing policy, and mobilizing resources. These efforts contribute to a strong collective impact among area nonprofit partners, enabling them to not only meet but exceed their missions. FRI operates behind the scenes to ensure their success, with its greatest strength lying in the development of civic leadership. Through identification, training, and coaching, FRI empowers leaders to work collaboratively and solve problems within their own communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.4%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.3%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.4% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $277K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $56K · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.