Illinois · Nonprofit
EMERGING LEADERS INITIATIVE NFP
EMERGING LEADERS INITIATIVE NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,530 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($337,647). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $67k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $364k
- Net assets
- $0
What Emerging Leaders Initiative Nfp does
Mission
To help emerging leaders to discover and pursue their God-given purpose to serve the world.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Discover Program (55%) -Discover is ELI's introductory program designed to help leaders discover God's design and purpose for their lives. Though the reach and depth of Discover has continued to expand, it is primarily executed and sustained by one full-time employee, the Community Director, along with support from the Executive Director and the collaborative and substantial support of a wider ecosystem of volunteers and the Board of Directors. In this key phase, staff and others collaborated on a comprehensive revision and refinement of the Discover process. As a part of this effort, resources and materials were developed for the first time so that Discover could be utilized in a variety of contexts and circumstances for years to come.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $90k to $38k (−58%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $35k → $54k.
4 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 EMERGING LEADERS INITIATIVE NFP’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
EMERGING LEADERS INITIATIVE NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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
100% 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 EMERGING LEADERS INITIATIVE NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 79% · 2019 88% · 2020 100% · 2021 89% — 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
100% of EMERGING LEADERS INITIATIVE NFP'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $364k 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.
Organizations like EMERGING LEADERS INITIATIVE NFP
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 EMERGING LEADERS INITIATIVE NFP: 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 EMERGING LEADERS INITIATIVE NFP?
- EMERGING LEADERS INITIATIVE NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,530 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($337,647). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EMERGING LEADERS INITIATIVE NFP have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $363,530 in grants to EMERGING LEADERS INITIATIVE NFP, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMERGING LEADERS INITIATIVE NFP?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $337,647 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMERGING LEADERS INITIATIVE NFP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 4 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