Alabama · Nonprofit
ABIDE & LEAD
ABIDE & LEAD (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $428,800 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($343,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $155k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $429k
- Net assets
- $137k
What Abide & Lead does
Mission
The abide and lead's mission is to inspire, equip, and connect leaders through transformative experiences, like-minded relationships, and shared wisdom.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization's heritage forum program reached 108 individuals by hosting three faith-based leadership development programs. These events are designed to equip established and emerging leaders to live with purpose and create a lasting impact. Through retreat-based experiences, the organization offers teaching sessions, guided reflection, and peer engagement to help participants clarify their personal mission, leadership direction, and organizational priorities. One of the programs also engages spouses to strengthen marriages and develop shared family vision, values, and legacy planning. As a result, participants are better prepared to lead with intention, strengthen their families, and contribute positively to their communities and organizations.
$163,520 spent$36,692 earned by the program80% of program spendingIn 2025, heritage forum transformed into Abide & Lead. An organization that seeks to cultivate a community of business leaders who abide in christ and lead for eternal impact. We inspire, equip, and connect leaders through transformative experiences, like-minded relationships, and shared wisdom. Launching in 2025, we helped host approximately 320 participants at the factor forum and the highlands college leadership conference. These two leadership intensives focus on personal, organizational, and business leadership, helping participants lead more effectively in their families, businesses, and spheres of influence.
$16,415 spent8% of program spendingIn 2025, we launched a podcast called impact ceo. The impact ceo podcast is a key program of Abide & Lead that equips faith-driven ceos and business leaders to integrate biblical principles into their leadership and organizations. During the reporting period, the podcast produced and distributed episodes featuring conversations with experienced leaders on stewardship, culture, and kingdom-minded leadership. This program extends the organization's reach beyond in-person gatherings by providing accessible, ongoing leadership development. As a result, it has strengthened engagement with a growing audience and advanced the mission of equipping leaders to steward their influence for lasting, kingdom impact.
$23,412 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $203,347.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $133k to $191k (+44%).
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.
73% of ABIDE & LEAD’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $80k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 ABIDE & LEAD’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
ABIDE & LEAD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 ABIDE & LEAD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 87% · 2023 38% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of ABIDE & LEAD'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Alabama, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $424k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
ABIDE & LEAD is better cushioned than half of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ABIDE & LEAD
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ABIDE & LEAD: 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 ABIDE & LEAD?
- ABIDE & LEAD (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $428,800 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($343,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ABIDE & LEAD have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $428,800 in grants to ABIDE & LEAD, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABIDE & LEAD?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $343,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABIDE & LEAD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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