Moving Forward Advisory Council Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272612676
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2013, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Lenexa, KS, USA
- Phone
- 9136435039
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Agricultural Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $241,007
- Expenses
- $274,094
- Assets
- $105,216
- Liabilities
- $10,512
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LANCE WOODBURY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DOUG KIRK (CHAIR)
- LORI FREY (BOARD TREASURER)
- DOUG MILLER (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The moving forward advisory council is a diverse community of thriving agriculture businesses who are shaping legacies for future generations by fostering relationships, sharing experiences, challenging one another, creating business opportunities, and strengthening the industry with its actions.
What it reported doing in 2025
Promoting networking and information sharing within the group and across multiple generations.providing joint and unique educational opportunities.members applying educational opportunities by joining together to leverage buying power and relationships with inputs, equipment, technology, and finance providers.members learning and applying the knowledge on how to reduce common overhead, production, and risk management expenses.developing common formats for discussion of financial and production information.education from exploring both active and passive revenue generation and "talent leverage" opportunities.providing an annual local grants program award that impacts the communities where the operations are located. The recipients include agriculture scholarships at local schools, school supplies for low income students, 4-h clubs, ffa chapters, food banks, senior centers, and volunteer fire departments. The operation was started in 2010 with 6 operations as participants. Currently, there are 24 operations as participants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 67.2%; rating input score 67; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.7%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $127K reported
- Consistency: 9 of 10 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.