Minnesota · Nonprofit
ENCOURAGING LEADERS
ENCOURAGING LEADERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,000 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($120,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $729k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $185k
- Net assets
- $128k
What Encouraging Leaders does
Mission
Our mission is to inspire underserved youth and young adults, helping them recognize their inner talents and gain confidence in their ability to shape a positive future for themselves and their community. We provide them with the necessary tools and resources to support youth and young adults experiencing poverty, trauma, or social injustice, enabling them to become thriving contributors to society through career readiness, educational programming, outreach, and awareness efforts.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
We conducted, 39 outreach events, including summer youth programs, tabling activities, awareness, concerts, and resource fairs that brought several young people and members of the local communities together. Through these events, we received drug free pledges from 1,286 individuals who documented their commitment to fostering drug-free community.
$104,498 spent17% of program spendingWe also launched a forum named "empower lunch" - a forum that is geared towards bringing victims of drug abuse, domestic violence etc. In one place with professionals and experts who will share their thoughts on the issues of domestic violence, opiods, covid 19, etc. Thirty (30) sessions were held covering the topics family violence, opiods, naloxone, covid 19 and financial literacy.
$104,498 spent17% of program spendingWe assisted 1,519 persons by linking them with crucial resources including, housing and treatment, legal services, and health related support through our regular engagement with partner organizations.
$104,498 spent17% of program spending4. During the year under review, we re-enforced our social media activities and awareness campaigns. Statistics revealed taht we have reached more than 155,000 individuals through program campaigns and activities on our different social media platforms sharing information on family violence, opiods, shelter, homeless services etc. 5. In 2023, we lauched another social media flagship service through a platform called "minnesota blessing accelerated case management service". This program has a membership of over 24,000 persons across minnesota. During 2023, it received more than 5,000 requests for emergency services from different members of communities and has fulfilled more than 3,000 of the requests received. The program was structured to assist people with some basic needs such as food, minimal financial aid, housing, mentorships, and case management. 6. Covid-19 vaccination outreach: in 2023, we provided covid 19 vaccines and other covid related information to over 50,000 people through our social media network and outreach services. These interventions helped our local communities access services that trememdously transformed a significant portion of the youthful population in…
$313,493 spent50% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $626,987.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $54k to $208k (+282%).
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: 2022 84% · 2023 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ENCOURAGING LEADERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $65k → $120k.
From the IRS filings of ENCOURAGING LEADERS’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
ENCOURAGING LEADERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
78% 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 ENCOURAGING LEADERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 62% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 ENCOURAGING LEADERS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
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.
Against its field
ENCOURAGING LEADERS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,457 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,457 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Government funding ENCOURAGING LEADERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $828k on record.
- Department of Justice$703k
- Department of Health and Human Services$125k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ENCOURAGING LEADERS
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 Minnesota
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
87%
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 ENCOURAGING LEADERS: 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 ENCOURAGING LEADERS?
- ENCOURAGING LEADERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,000 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($120,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ENCOURAGING LEADERS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $185,000 in grants to ENCOURAGING LEADERS.
- Who is the largest funder of ENCOURAGING LEADERS?
- GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENCOURAGING LEADERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 3 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