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FOREST FORWARD

EIN 85-1581238 DALLAS, TX

Revenue 2024
$14,793,991
Expenses 2024
$3,414,034

Program services were 45.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S20
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 152929

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).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • ELIZABETH WATTLEY

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $248,846
    From this org
    $248,846
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $223,846
    Bonus
    $25,000
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $248,846

  • SHARON CARSON

    CHIEF ADV. OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $173,077
    From this org
    $173,077
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $173,077
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $173,077

  • CHRIS DOWDY

    VP OF STRATEGY

    Total calculated
    $163,269
    From this org
    $163,269
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $163,269
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $163,269

  • ASHLEY WILSON

    EXECUTIVE VP

    Total calculated
    $125,115
    From this org
    $125,115
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • CECILYN BRYAN

    DIR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $101,731
    From this org
    $101,731
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • LARRY JAMES

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • MATRICE ELLIS-KIRK

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • JON HALBERT

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • LINDA HALBERT

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • GILBERT GERST

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • REV MATTHEW RUFFNER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • FROSWA BOOKER-DREW

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • DIANE RAGSDALE

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • RABBI DAVID STERN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • THOMAS FOLEY

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • CEDRIC CORDELL ADAMS MD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • JAMILA THOMAS

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • PETER BRODSKY

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • MICHAEL HINOJOSA

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • TERRY LOFTIS

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • DAVID HUNTLEY

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • CELIA WALKER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • JESSICA WASHINGTON

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • NOELLE LEVEAUX

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • RICK HIGHTOWER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

The first 25 listed. 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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $14,793,991
    Expenses
    $3,414,034
    Contributions
    $14,725,607
    Grants paid
    $62,886
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,856,409
    Expenses
    $2,288,987
    Contributions
    $7,851,097
    Grants paid
    $30,442
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,958,247
    Expenses
    $1,541,870
    Contributions
    $2,954,047
    Grants paid
    $0

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.

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

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 10 September 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.