California · Nonprofit
COLLEGE & CAREER MINISTRIES INC DBA THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
COLLEGE & CAREER MINISTRIES INC DBA THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,556 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($100,136). 3 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
- $465k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $176k
- Net assets
- $247k
What College & Career Ministries Inc Dba the Leadership Institute does
Mission
Religious training
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Leadership training: training christian leaders in conference settings for leadership in church, para-church, cross-cultural ministry, academic and marketplace settings. (comprising all journey retreat activities)
$345,156 spent$53,626 earned by the program90% of program spendingOrganizational transformation consulting: consulting leaders on-site, mostly in teams or classroom settings, to facilitate leadership that listens well, cultivates healthy life patterns, and leads from abundance. (comprising activities in consulting and academic instruction)
$30,680 spent8% of program spendingMentoring and speaking: providing one-time and ongoing spiritual direction and mentoring to individual leaders, and providing retreat leaders and church speakers for other organizations. (comprising all spiritual direction, mentoring and outside speaking)
$7,670 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $383,506.
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 2023 to 2024, from $145k to $233k (+61%).
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: 2023 2% · 2024 0% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of COLLEGE & CAREER MINISTRIES INC DBA THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Troy Walling
Exec director
Board chair
Mike Rundlett
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $46k → $8k.
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 COLLEGE & CAREER MINISTRIES INC DBA THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE’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
COLLEGE & CAREER MINISTRIES INC DBA THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 COLLEGE & CAREER MINISTRIES INC DBA THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 COLLEGE & CAREER MINISTRIES INC DBA THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $174k 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
COLLEGE & CAREER MINISTRIES INC DBA THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE is better cushioned than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COLLEGE & CAREER MINISTRIES INC DBA THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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 COLLEGE & CAREER MINISTRIES INC DBA THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: 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 COLLEGE & CAREER MINISTRIES INC DBA THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE?
- COLLEGE & CAREER MINISTRIES INC DBA THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,556 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($100,136). 3 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 COLLEGE & CAREER MINISTRIES INC DBA THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $175,556 in grants to COLLEGE & CAREER MINISTRIES INC DBA THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLEGE & CAREER MINISTRIES INC DBA THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,136 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLEGE & CAREER MINISTRIES INC DBA THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 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