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Educators Leading The Profession

Educators Leading The Profession (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $360,469 to it, the largest being IOWA STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ($360,469). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$246k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$360k
Net assets
$141k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Educators Leading The Profession does

Mission

Educators Leading The Professions mission is to benefit the community served and to promote education, activities, and advancement of education. This is achieved by supporting teachers and public education, enhancing and improving quality of public education, creating and test piloting teaching processes to assist teachers and staff, and to organize and create teaching programs to provide assistance to educators.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Supporting teachers and public education, enhancing and improving quality of public education, creating and test piloting teaching processes to assist teachers and staff, and to organize and create teaching programs to provide assistance to educators with credentialed expertise in the field of teaching practices.

    $275,119 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $275,119.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($478k) Expenses 100 ($101k) Net assets 100 ($376k)2021 Revenue 97 ($462k) Expenses 430 ($435k) Net assets 110 ($413k)2022 Revenue 256 ($1.2M) Expenses 902 ($913k) Net assets 192 ($723k)2023 Revenue 210 ($1.0M) Expenses 855 ($865k) Net assets 229 ($864k)2024 Revenue 57 ($271k) Expenses 901 ($912k) Net assets 50 ($188k)2025 Revenue 51 ($246k) Expenses 289 ($292k) Net assets 38 ($141k)
201920212022202320242025
Revenue (51)Expenses (289)Net assets (38)Peer revenue range

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 $889k to $213k (−76%).

$393k
$447k
$738k
$889k
$213k
$141k
201920212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 33% · 2023 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Educators Leading The Profession’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$376k
’19
$27k
’21
$311k
’22
$140k
’23
−$641k
’24
−$47k
’25
5.4
months of
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

Dan Burkhalter

Executive Director

Board chair

Mike Shoudy

Chair, Illinois Education Association

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

201920212022202320242025
Listed8871065
Joined··+0+4+3+0
No longer listed··1171
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $54k → $140k.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $324k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Education Minnesota). These are real filings, and they are not money Educators Leading The Profession raised.

From the IRS filings of Educators Leading The Profession’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.

Where its funders are

Educators Leading The Profession draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 1 state in all.

IA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Educators Leading The Profession's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Educators Leading The Profession

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 Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 2 states

IL
MI

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Educators Leading The Profession: 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 Educators Leading The Profession?
Educators Leading The Profession (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $360,469 to it, the largest being IOWA STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ($360,469). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Educators Leading The Profession have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $360,469 in grants to Educators Leading The Profession, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Educators Leading The Profession?
IOWA STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $360,469 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Educators Leading The Profession find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 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