Nebraska · Nonprofit
BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY (Nebraska) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,070,964 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($1,628,063). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $269k
What Banister's Leadership Academy does
Mission
BLA is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that strengthens youth and their families with empowerment, enrichment, and extended academic success. Through leadership training using the 12 pillars of leadership and the level of leadership support program, we provide youth and their families with a safe and positive environment for youth to become leaders
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
BLAs primary goals are to strengthen and empower yourth through leadership development programs. Banisters works with families, providing parenting classes for financial literacy, goal setting, free parent child engagement activities, and resources referrals to help with unmet needs Blas youth and family program include Leadership in Action, Night Life Leadership in a Fun Environment, Goal Setters, Mentoring, Middle School Preparedness Leadership Circle, Juvenile Justice Family Navigator Program, Health Kids Movement, Sister Circles and Family University.
$978,174 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $978,174.
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 2024 to 2025, from $779k to $524k (−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: 2017 60% · 2018 16% · 2019 18% · 2020 48% · 2021 3% · 2022 24% · 2023 39% · 2024 33% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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.
Chief executive
Akile Banister
President/CEO
Board chair
Zachary Petersen
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $20k → $679k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY’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
BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 44% · 2019 47% · 2020 27% · 2021 77% · 2022 44% · 2023 44% — 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
50% of BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
94% of BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $112k 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
BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY?
- BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY (Nebraska) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,070,964 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($1,628,063). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $3,070,964 in grants to BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,628,063 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 25 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