Fillmore Forward Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811321280
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Buffalo, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7164364896
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,329
- Expenses
- $11,547
- Assets
- $52,382
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RITA E GAY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RITA E GAY (PRESIDENT)
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 vision of the orgazization is to partner with local business, residents and community to produce thriving businesses, public spaces that are safe. To attract and foster community pride. To provide jobs and act as a catalyst for further commercial and mixed used development.
What it reported doing in 2025
To create a sense of place by improving quality of life, restoring economic vitality. To increase incusiveness and wealth in the community by grass roots organizing and public &private partnerships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.1%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 77.9%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.54; rating input score 82; 82nd 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: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.