Business Forward Inc
Revenue
$3.3m
year to 31 December 2024
Expenses
$3.4m
year to 31 December 2024
Total assets
$4.1m
$2k liabilities
Net assets
$4.1m
assets less liabilities
Directors and trustees
5
6.6y av
Staff
6
employees, year to 31 December 2024
Left since last filing
0
no seats appear to have opened
Officers and senior staff
2
named in Part VII
Business Forward Inc's network
5 people3 organisationsi5 people and 3 organisations on this map.The large node is the subject of this page. Solid lines are what the register itself records (5). Violet dotted lines (3) are likely: the same full name sits on the current board of another organisation in the same register and region. Form 990 filings give names without a person identifier; SEC insider filings carry a CIK. It may be a different person.The board
5 listediTime on the board is observed from the annual filings: the IRS files no appointment date, so the bar counts years from the first filing the person appears on - a lower bound, not a filed start date. Names are exactly as filed. The IRS publishes no person identifier, so this edition does not yet link a person across organisations in the tables. The network map shows same-name matches as likely links only, never as confirmed.Tenure and departures are observed across annual filings. Observed tenure is a lower bound - a member may have joined before the first year on record. The organisation reported 5 voting members of its governing body on its latest Form 990 Part VI, which matches the board listed here.| Name | Role as filed | Since | On the board |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Hitchcock | Director | 2022 | 4 yrs |
| Amy Dacey | Director | 2023 | 3 yrs |
| Erik Smith | Director | 2018 | 8 yrs |
| Jackson Dunn | Director | 2018 | 8 yrs |
| James Doyle | Officer-Director | 2018 | 8 yrs |
Under 5 years5 to 6 years6 years or more
Officers and senior leadership
2 listediNamed in Part VII as officers, key employees or highest-compensated staff - not board members, shown for completeness.| Name | Title as filed | On the filings |
|---|---|---|
| Carrie GAY | Employee | 2022 |
| Elizabeth Fairchild | Employee | since 2022 |
Pay and hours
year to 31 December 2024iFrom Part VII of the Form 990: compensation reported for each officer, director, trustee, key employee and highest-paid staff member, and the average hours a week they report. Most board members are unpaid; a blank means nothing was reported. Pay from related organisations is shown separately.| Name | Title as filed | Hours a week | Pay from the organisation | Related organisations | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Doyle | Officer-Director | 20 | $950k | $21k | |
| Elizabeth Fairchild | Executive Director | 20 | $146k | $157k | $688 |
| Carrie Gay | Employee | 20 | $132k | ||
| Erik Smith | Director | 1 | $0 | ||
| Jackson Dunn | Director | 1 | $0 | ||
| Adam Hitchcock | Director | 1 | $0 | ||
| Amy Dacey | Director | 1 | $0 |
About
- Legal name
- Business Forward Inc
- EIN
- 264336291
- Address
- 601 13th St Nw 12th Floor, Washington, DC, 20005-3819
- State
- District of Columbia
- Mission
- Business forward builds support for policies that promote america's economic competitiveness. Together with many of the world's largest companies, we recruit, brief and assist fortune 1000 executives, small business owners, investors and entrepreneurs looking for a meaningful way to participate in policy debates. (as filed on the Form 990)
- Activity (NTEE)
- S41 Community improvement and capacity building
- IRS classification
- 501(c)06 (tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) where shown)
- Classified purpose
- Community Improvement & Capacity Building
- Size band
- 6 (IRS master file code)
- Formed
- 2009
- Principal officer
- James Doyle (as named on the Form 990)
- IRS ruling date
- 1 August 2010
- Status
- Code 01 (unconditional exemption)
- Form 990 filings on record
- 4, latest 2023
Most connected
Related organisations (Schedule R)
Longest observed on the filings
≥8years on the filingsErik Smith
≥8years on the filingsJackson Dunn
≥8years on the filingsJames Doyle
≥4years on the filingsAdam Hitchcock
Latest return
year to 31 December 2024iFigures from the newest Form 990 or 990-EZ in the IRS e-file releases of 2025 and 2026, for the year ending 31 December 2024. US dollars, as filed.- Total assets
- $4.1m
- Total liabilities
- $2k
- Net assets or fund balances
- $4.1m
- Contributions and grants received
- $3.2m
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Employees
- 6
State registration
1 entityiBusiness-entity registers published by US states. These records are matched to this organisation by name and state, not by EIN, and are labelled as likely matches. Street addresses are not shown.Business Forward Inc. likely matchiMatched by exact name and state (and ZIP where shown). State registers do not publish EINs, so this is not a confirmed match. Source: DC Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection (DLCP), corporate registrations (opendata.dc.gov). Licence: CC BY 4.0. Attribution: DC DLCP. Data last fetched 18 October 2026.
- State
- District of Columbia
- Entity type
- Domestic Nonprofit Corporation
- Status
- Active - In Good Standing
- Formed
- 24 February 2009
- Registered agent
- James Doyle (city and state not held)