Forward Progress Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472302344
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Pomona, CA, USA
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Rehabilitation Services for Offenders

Reported finances

Revenue
$58,175
Expenses
$66,171
Assets
$4,073

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Phillip A Senteno (Chair and Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Phillip A Senteno (Chair and Executive Director)
  • Stacey Bergman (Treasurer)
  • Claudia Venegas (Secretary)

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

Forward Progress Inc. helps people who have been incarcerated and or are currently homeless reenter society successfully. We offer a variety of services including: housing referrals employment referrals self-help groups 12-step and others tattoo removal drive-home programs mentoring and general assistance in navigating the transition. We also work with the local homeless population providing hot meals to individuals and families giving out boxes of food clothing hygiene items etc.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025 Forward Progress served 302 members of the reentry and or homeless community primarily in Los Angeles County. Our agency provided housing placements hot meals pre-employment assistance parole and court advocacy tattoo removal group counseling and individual mentoring. In addition we provided warm handoff referrals for mental health services substance abuse counseling vision care and AA NA CGA meetings.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 89% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 94.9%; rating input score 95

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -13.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -21% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -24.6% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.