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SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Policies)	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2025
SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Principles of Consolidation	First Foundation Inc. (“FFI”) is a financial services holding company whose operations are conducted through its wholly owned subsidiaries:  First Foundation Advisors (“FFA”) and First Foundation Bank (“FFB” or the “Bank”) and the wholly owned subsidiaries of FFB, First Foundation Public Finance (“FFPF”), and Blue Moon Management, LLC (collectively the “Company”).  FFI also has two inactive wholly owned subsidiaries, First Foundation Consulting and First Foundation Advisors, LLC.  FFI is incorporated in the state of Delaware.  The corporate headquarters for FFI is located in Irving, Texas.  The Company provides a comprehensive platform of financial services to individuals, businesses and other organizations and has offices in California, Nevada, Florida, Texas, and Hawaii.
Basis of presentation	The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and prevailing practices within the banking industry. In preparing the consolidated financial statements, management is required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities as of the date of the balance sheet and revenues and expenses for the period. Actual results could differ significantly from those estimates. The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, and include all information and footnotes required for interim financial reporting presentation.  All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The results for the 2025 interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results expected for the full year.  These financial statements assume that readers have read the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC which contains the latest available audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto as of and for the year ended December 31, 2024.
New Accounting Pronouncements	New Accounting Pronouncements Recent Accounting Guidance Not Yet Effective In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740 – Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures.  The FASB issued this Update to enhance the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures. The amendments to this Update address investor requests for more transparency about income tax information through improvements to income tax disclosures primarily related to the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid.  The amendments in this Update are effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024, and are not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

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Disclosure of accounting policy for basis of accounting, or basis of presentation, used to prepare the financial statements (for example, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, Other Comprehensive Basis of Accounting, IFRS).

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Disclosure of accounting policy regarding (1) the principles it follows in consolidating or combining the separate financial statements, including the principles followed in determining the inclusion or exclusion of subsidiaries or other entities in the consolidated or combined financial statements and (2) its treatment of interests (for example, common stock, a partnership interest or other means of exerting influence) in other entities, for example consolidation or use of the equity or cost methods of accounting. The accounting policy may also address the accounting treatment for intercompany accounts and transactions, noncontrolling interest, and the income statement treatment in consolidation for issuances of stock by a subsidiary.

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