Past Forward Previously Known as Heritage Future

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
474550601
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Orange, CA, USA
Phone
5626536835
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue
$60,355
Expenses
$68,619
Assets
$28,408
Liabilities
$60,422

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Janet Kim (President & CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Kevin Staniec (Director)
  • Katie Amstadt (Secretary)
  • Janet Kim (President & CEO)

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

The organization serves as a regional catalyst for the preservation, presentation, and promotion of cultural heritage and literacy arts. It purposes to inspire a cultural legacy for the community.

What it reported doing in 2025

Dedicated to the creative traditions of the local history, it develops educational programs, produces collaborative projects, and publishes relevant literature from around the world to enrich the diverse neighborhoods and engages the national community.With access to archived materials and exclusive historic locations, it uses the literary arts as a foundation for increasing education and literacy with meaningful opportunities - both online and offline - that will engage readers, support writers, and inspire a cultural legacy for future generations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

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

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -13.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.13; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $69K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.