Georgia · Nonprofit
21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC
21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,635,257 to it, the largest being GEORGIA POWER FOUNDATION INC ($548,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $490k
What 21st Century Leaders Inc does
Mission
21st century leaders connects, transforms, and inspires high school students across georgia to become leaders in their school, community, and ultimately the workforce.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Summer residential leadership institutes 21st century leaders' summer leadership institutes are one-week residential institutes on college and corporate campuses focused on leadership development and career exploration across industry sectors. Our four summer institutes impacted 286 high school students from 163 high schools and 45 counties across the state in 2025. 94% of students reported that they are more likely to seek out or continue seeking out leadership roles, 56% of students said they discovered a new career field of interest as a result of the program, and 43% of students said it was their first time seeing someone who looks like them in a career or position they want to be in.
$1,135,770 spentof which $78,935 as grants75% of program spendingSchool-year programs 2024-2025 school year we served over 3,000 students with 730 live training events, programs, and experiences for the year with 96% of students say their confidence as a leader increased through 21st century leaders. Our online learning platform, leadership connect saw a record enrollment of over 3,100 students with 96% enrolled receiving free access. 28 students and 14 mba coaches participated in the inaugural cohort of our leadership connect social enterprise and entrepreneurship capstone in partnership with emory's goizueta business school where students can earn a leadership certificate from goizueta, the first of its kind. Our school and community based 21 clubs supported over 1,000 students across 31 clubs and we provided over 50,000 in post-secondary scholarships.
$168,460 spent11% of program spendingHomework centers the homework center program, managed by 21st century leaders through scana energy, established after-school tutoring and academic enrichment programs in georgia title 1 elementary schools for up to four years at each school. In the 2024-2025 school year an average of 292 students were enrolled and attended for 476 days across the ten homework centers. 93% of students agree that they get to learn more things at the homework center and that they do better in school, and 86% of parents agree that since attending the scana energy homework center, their child is doing better on schoolwork. Participating schools reported improved grades and gains in test scores among homework center students, especially in math and reading.
$204,110 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,508,340.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $495k to $742k (+50%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of 21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $88k → $239k.
9 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 55% · 2019 48% · 2020 46% · 2021 35% · 2022 29% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
58% of 21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of 21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $189k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC?
- 21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,635,257 to it, the largest being GEORGIA POWER FOUNDATION INC ($548,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,635,257 in grants to 21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC?
- GEORGIA POWER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $548,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing