- Revenue 2025
- $6,368,048
- Expenses 2025
- $5,156,626
Program services were 98.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- P20
- Classification
- 7000
- Street
- 2875 MERRELL RD
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
NOW-FORWARD IS THE TRUSTED AND COMPASSIONATE RESOURCE HELPING INDIVIDUALS THROUGH UNEXPECTED LIFE CHALLENGES.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Dallas-area residents turn to Now-Forward for food, clothing, financial, medical, dental and mental health services.
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NDSM is the trusted and compassionate resource helping individuals through unexpected life challenges. NDSM provides temporary emergency assistance for basic needs and offers services promoting health, education, and financial independence to help low-income individuals and families achieve long-term stability and assume responsibility for their lives as they are able. NDSM partners with other organizations to provide services that it alone cannot offer. NDSM provides the following services at no cost to its clients: . Food . Rent and Utility Assistance . Medical Care . Dental Care . Mental Health Counseling . Vision/Glasses . Clothing . School Supplies . School Uniforms . English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) Classes . Tax Preparation Assistance . Rent Advances for Disabled Dallas County Welfare Clients without Household Income.
Expenses $5,091,785 · Grants $4,671,131
As filed on the 2025 return.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Leonard M Riggs Jr MDLEONARD M RIGGS JR MD
PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Dane HardyDANE HARDY
VICE PRESIDNT/DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
-
Colin C Rorrie Jr PhDCOLIN C RORRIE JR PHD
SECRETARY/DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Nelson S Jaeggli MDNELSON S JAEGGLI MD
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tauane Araujo CruzTAUANE ARAUJO CRUZ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Eric JansonERIC JANSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ganesh ShivaramaiyerGANESH SHIVARAMAIYER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mary Waller
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Patrick JohnsonPATRICK JOHNSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Karen SmithKAREN SMITH
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Judy RorrieJUDY RORRIE
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 60
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2025
- Revenue
- $6,368,048
- Expenses
- $5,156,626
- Contributions
- $5,403,908
- Grants paid
- $4,671,131
-
2023
- Revenue
- $7,159,492
- Expenses
- $5,455,809
- Contributions
- $6,568,373
- Grants paid
- $4,973,897
-
2022
- Revenue
- $3,525,263
- Expenses
- $3,525,411
- Contributions
- $3,009,907
- Grants paid
- $3,095,850
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,063,721
- Expenses
- $3,541,857
- Assets (EOY)
- $11,866,848
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,960,527
- Expenses
- $4,858,831
- Assets (EOY)
- $10,553,268
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,676,184
- Expenses
- $3,636,173
- Assets (EOY)
- $8,621,770
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,315,467
- Expenses
- $3,328,251
- Assets (EOY)
- $7,584,089
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,315,467
- Expenses
- $3,328,251
- Assets (EOY)
- $7,584,089
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,944,885
- Expenses
- $3,348,615
- Assets (EOY)
- $7,994,982
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,697,064
- Expenses
- $2,934,581
- Assets (EOY)
- $6,505,233
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,697,064
- Expenses
- $2,934,581
- Assets (EOY)
- $6,505,233
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,697,064
- Expenses
- $2,934,581
- Assets (EOY)
- $6,505,233
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.
Grants made
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$1,107,000
2023 HUMAN SERVICES
-
$135,500
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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NORTH TEXAS HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
$117,010
2024 General Support
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$107,100
2024 HUMAN SERVICES
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2023 PROGRAM OPS COST
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2022 PROGRAM OPS COST
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS
$67,008
2023 THIS GRANT IS DESIGNATED FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.
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2024 Program Support
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.