Georgia · Nonprofit
EQUIP Leadership Inc
EQUIP Leadership Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,625,556 to it, the largest being Williams Family Foundation Inc ($2,075,020). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What EQUIP Leadership Inc does
Mission
Our vision is to bring about worldwide transformation through empowered believers sharing their faith. To do this we develop and mobilize Christian leaders within their circles of influence by developing and disseminating world-class, values-based, relationship-driven programs and content to believers in every nation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Leadership Innovation: Our Leadership Innovation program is for those who have a heart to help others grow in their personal and leadership growth journey by becoming a Beyond Success Facilitator. The journey starts with taking part in the Beyond Success Tables. After the 7-session training, the attendees are able to be part of the facilitator training and have access to all of the materials need to begin their own Beyond Success tables.
$6,317,832 spentof which $5,050,334 as grants73% of program spendingBeyond Success: Our Beyond Success program is an outreach from believers to those within their circles of influence, often within the business community. We train local influencers to conduct Beyond Success tables with other leaders and acquaintances. Beyond Success tables offer a highly accessible pathway to personal improvement as well as an opportunity to hear John C. Maxwell share his faith. We have seen the effectiveness of this strategy throughout the world. People's lives are improving as they apply the personal growth and leadership development principles and many thousands have come to Christ.
$2,363,080 spent27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,680,912.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.1M to $5.7M (+84%).
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%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
111% of EQUIP Leadership Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
John Maxwell
Board Chair/Founder
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $383k → $1.9M.
19 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 EQUIP Leadership Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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
EQUIP Leadership Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
67% 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 EQUIP Leadership Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 34% · 2019 29% · 2020 37% · 2021 45% · 2022 35% · 2023 26% — 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
48% of EQUIP Leadership Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.
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
53% of EQUIP Leadership Inc'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 $6.0M that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
EQUIP Leadership Inc is better cushioned than half of the 249 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 249 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like EQUIP Leadership Inc
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Maxwell Leadership Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EQUIP Leadership Inc: 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 EQUIP Leadership Inc?
- EQUIP Leadership Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,625,556 to it, the largest being Williams Family Foundation Inc ($2,075,020). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EQUIP Leadership Inc have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $12,625,556 in grants to EQUIP Leadership Inc, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EQUIP Leadership Inc?
- Williams Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,075,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EQUIP Leadership Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 39 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing