Fine Dine Front Lines
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850825944
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2022
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4254992481
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4
- Expenses
- $56,368
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RYAN DWYER (CEO)
People named in this filing
- RYAN DWYER (CEO)
- JOHN STEELE (DIRECTOR)
- JAMES DWYER (CHAIR)
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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support restaurants, feed front line workers and healthcare organizations, and cover administrative fees to operate.
What it reported doing in 2022
Fdfl raised funds and purchased food from struggling wa state restaurants, then delivered those meals to frontline healthcare workers at no charge.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 1
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 35.5%; rating input score 35
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1,409,100%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 46.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -50% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -118.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -84.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 8 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 35.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2022
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Program expense ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.