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EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS INC

EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,577,832 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD FOUNDATION ($8,562,832). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$2.6M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$3.3M
6/10 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Emerging Public Leaders Inc does

Mission

At emerging public leaders, our strategic vision over the next 10 years is to build a pipeline of a new cadre of public servants that thinks critically, works competently, and will really drive change in africa.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. Emerging public leaders (epl) is a public service leadership development organization partnering with governments in africa to drive stronger citizen outcomes by co-creating a new generation of young civil service leaders committed to achieving extraordinary social impact and service delivery. Epl helps strengthen capacities in african governments through an innovative model involving meritocratic selection and placement of highly motivated and high-achieving young africans into government through our flagship program--the public service fellowship. Epl is a non-profit organization incorporated in the unied states with a us-based board of directors and country offices in liberia, ghana and more recently, in kenya.

    $2,547,537 spentof which $1,706,926 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,547,537.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($200k) Expenses 100 ($124k) Net assets 100 ($76k)2019 Revenue 214 ($428k) Expenses 395 ($489k) Net assets 19 ($14k)2020 Revenue 296 ($593k) Expenses 376 ($466k) Net assets 185 ($141k)2021 Revenue 2902 ($5.8M) Expenses 1098 ($1.4M) Net assets 6027 ($4.6M)2022 Revenue 1009 ($2.0M) Expenses 2085 ($2.6M) Net assets 5283 ($4.0M)2023 Revenue 1276 ($2.6M) Expenses 2609 ($3.2M) Net assets 4385 ($3.3M)
201820192020202120222023
Revenue (1276)Expenses (2609)Net assets (4385)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 2020 to 2021, from $144k to $4.6M (+3110%).

$102k
$263k
$144k
$4.6M
$4.1M
$3.3M
201820192020202120222023
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,679 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$76k
’18
−$62k
’19
$126k
’20
$4.4M
’21
−$566k
’22
−$683k
’23
7.5
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.

Board chair

Betsy Williams

Chair

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.

201820192020202120222023
Listed89991011
Joined·+4+1+0+2+6
No longer listed·31015
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $150k → $2.3M.

1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 PUBLIC LEADERS INC’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 PUBLIC LEADERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

82% 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 PUBLIC LEADERS INC.

81%
largest funder
94%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 32% · 2021 63% · 2022 74% · 2023 94% — 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

40% of EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states in all.

WA
NY
PA
NJ
CA

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,538 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−27% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)66% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,538 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 20%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

24%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS INC?
EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,577,832 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD FOUNDATION ($8,562,832). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $10,577,832 in grants to EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS INC?
MASTERCARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,562,832 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 10 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