Frontier Project Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300336805
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2010, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9094837484
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,924
- Expenses
- $27,924
- Assets
- $61,958
- Liabilities
- $61,014
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Bosler (President)
- Jesus Espinoza (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Randall Reed (Chairman)
- Mark Gibboney (Vice Chairman)
- James Moffatt (Director)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Frontier Project Foundation's mission is to show how sustainable design can be economical, efficient, and inviting by demonstrating innovations for Southern California living and working environments.
What it reported doing in 2024
ELC Field Trips: First through sixth grade students visit the ELC to elarn about water and environmental issues through hands-on activities and teaching. This is a much needed and highly valued service that the District provides to the community.
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
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: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.9%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.22; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.98; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4,808.6%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.5% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -31.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.9% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.