Forefront Living
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261459224
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Dallas, TX, United States
- Phone
- (214) 355-3942
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,217,394
- Expenses
- $5,620,051
- Assets
- $27,303,007
- Liabilities
- $13,141,323
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIMOTHY MALLAD (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- DUSTIN ALLEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - PVN)
- KRISTEN JORDAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - OAW)
Highest reported compensation
- TIMOTHY MALLAD (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $746,485 total reported compensation
- STEVEN AILEY (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $453,831 total reported compensation
- JANELLE BERTOLINO (CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER): $357,215 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To make each moment matter for those we serve. While our roots run deep in the region, reaching back to the early 1960s, Forefront Living has enjoyed tremendous growth in recent years. But at every step along the way, our focus remains to serve seniors in a way that creates more life and joy—not just growth for growth’s sake. At every step, we are guided by our mission and vision as an organization, and we keep residents and our service to them at the center of everything we do. It is recommended that applications are completed as soon as possible as Camp Erin DFW only accepts 25 families to attend. Families are invited to attend camp only after an interview and it is determined your family’s readiness to attend. Who can volunteer? Anyone 18 years or older can apply to volunteer. If you are younger than 18, please contact us for other great ways to get involved. Past volunteers have...
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide management and support services to presbyterian village north forefront living for the direct benefit of supporting presbyterian village north in fulfilling its mission for all they serve.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.7%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.86; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $5.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $746K · 18 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $671K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.