Rhode Island · Nonprofit
A Leadership Journey
A Leadership Journey (Rhode Island) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $616,004 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC ($252,927). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $48k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $616k
- Net assets
- $0
What A Leadership Journey does
Mission
To empower and equip youth ages 13-18 from marginalized identities to serve and see themselves as global citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Cultural Education and Exploration program is an opportunity for youth to participate in cultural learning for free in another country and or state for 2 weeks. CEEP provides equitable access to international and domestic travel where participants engage in hands on cultural exchanges led by their peers lead small large group discussions as well as cultivate relationships with their peers. Prior to departure students are asked to pick a research topic to focus on while abroad. During the stay the student will focus on gathering information pertaining to the identified topic through the mediums of discussion with locals and attending historical establishments. They are required to produce a written report discussing the research that was done during their travel upon returning to the United States before their respective school year commences. For the year of 2024 we accomplished this goal by bringing 9 individuals 6 youth 2 adult participants to Dakar Senegal. The students were from surrounding Providence Public Schools.
$34,813 spent72% of program spendingThis program is a 12 week program that takes place every Saturday over the course of 12 weeks from June to September. Our student count for the past session was 21 students residing within the Providence community. During this program we offered hands-on educational & interactive health and wellness activities promoting healthier self care habits in person as well as through Zoom learning. This helps youth participants prioritize their health by implementing healthier self care habits. By exposing youth participants to the tools resources and wellness activities throughout the program weve found that the students enhance self confidence and improve overall learning skills needed for the in school curriculum. These activities consist of but are not limited to physical fitness fishing meditation nutritious health and artistic expression.
$10,781 spent22% of program spendingThis program is a 12 week program that takes place every Saturday 3 Saturdays a month for 3 hours each. Thats a minimum of 100 educational hours invested during the year. During these educational sessions youth leaders are leading and facilitating our learning on themes that involve racial and social justice systematic racism systematic oppression and more. When youth leaders are not leading our sessions they are led by professionals who facilitate conversations that align with our curriculum and provide perspective to what students have been discussing. By exposing youth participants to the tools resources and wellness activities throughout the program. These activities consist of but are not limited to physical fitness meditation nutritious health and artistic expression. Also participants receive tuition to Brown University Pre-College Program where they can earn college credits a full semesters worth before they graduate high school.
$2,550 spent5% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $48,144.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $91k to $61k (−33%).
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: 2024 0% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of A Leadership Journey’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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.
Chief executive
Akeem Lloyd
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $22k → $141k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 A Leadership Journey’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
A Leadership Journey leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A Leadership Journey.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 45% · 2021 53% · 2022 75% · 2023 43% — 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
0% of A Leadership Journey's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 55% 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
65% of A Leadership Journey's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $216k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Rhode Island funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $400k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
A Leadership Journey is better cushioned than half of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like A Leadership Journey
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 A Leadership Journey: 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 A Leadership Journey?
- A Leadership Journey (Rhode Island) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $616,004 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC ($252,927). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does A Leadership Journey have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $616,004 in grants to A Leadership Journey, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A Leadership Journey?
- UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC is the largest funder on record, with $252,927 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A Leadership Journey find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 11 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