Forefront Living Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
751910084
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Dallas, TX, USA
Phone
2144131577
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Supportive Housing for Older Adults

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$46,093,147
Expenses
$4,542,103
Assets
$77,828,486
Liabilities
$1,459,313

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TIMOTHY MALLAD (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
  • KRISTEN JORDAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - OAW)
  • DUSTIN ALLEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - PVN)

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

Forefront living foundation (flf) raises and manages charitable funds to assist the mission. Flf relies on philanthropy and fundraising to fund projects and services to make each moment matter for those it serves.

What it reported doing in 2025

The foundation raises and transfers charitable support to forefront living and affiliated organizations to provide benevolent assistance to patients, development of new services, programs, projects, events and capital improvements.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 43
  • Transparency & Controls: 69
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 89
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 11.5%; rating input score 11
  • Program expense ratio: 79%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: $1,169.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 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: 90.1%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 17.13; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 11.5% of revenue deployed · 79% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $746K · 19 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, 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: 11 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 11/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.