Ohio · Nonprofit
Citizens Leadership Academy
Citizens Leadership Academy (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,000 to it, the largest being Project Lead the Way Inc ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Citizens Leadership Academy runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,920 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,920 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2022
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- University of Indianapolisshared funders
- Whirlpool Collective Impact Fundportfolio match
- Ohio Council of Community Schoolsportfolio match
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.
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 87% · 2018 86% · 2019 77% · 2020 83% · 2021 92% · 2022 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of Citizens Leadership Academy’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. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $12k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.7M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Friends of Breakthrough Schools). These are real filings, and they are not money Citizens Leadership Academy raised.
From the IRS filings of Citizens 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
Citizens Leadership Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 Citizens Leadership Academy.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% — 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
Citizens Leadership Academy draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- University of Indianapolisshared fundersIN · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- Whirlpool Collective Impact Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Council of Community Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Lead the Way Incshared fundersIN · backs 142 organizations that share your funders
- Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Center for Education Reformportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Schools Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prairiecare Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington State Charter Schools Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Schools for New Orleans Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Institute for Excellence in Teachingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Charter Schools Foundation of Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Citizens Leadership Academy
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Citizens Leadership Academy East · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Citizens Leadership Academy: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Citizens Leadership Academy?
- Citizens Leadership Academy (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,000 to it, the largest being Project Lead the Way Inc ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Citizens Leadership Academy have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $14,000 in grants to Citizens Leadership Academy, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Citizens Leadership Academy?
- Project Lead the Way Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Citizens Leadership Academy find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing