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EQUIPMENT LEASING & FINANCE FOUNDATION INC

EQUIPMENT LEASING & FINANCE FOUNDATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,890 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($27,890). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.0M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$46k
Net assets
$819k
1/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation Inc does

Mission

To provide future-oriented, in-depth, independent research and resources for the equipment finance industry.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Research studies - the foundation develops and publishes future focused research to identify trends and techniques forthcoming to the industry.

    $428,529 spentof which $50,000 as grants$15,000 earned by the program
    49% of program spending
  2. Special projects includes limited or one-time expenses for sharing and promoting our research and resources with our donor community through digital communications.

    $291,981 spent
    33% of program spending
  3. Economic outlook - the economic outlook report series analyzes global and domestic trends impacting capital spending and economic growth in the coming year. It identifies key signposts specific to the equipment finance industry and features momentum monitors that identify turning points for 12 verticals in their respective investment cycles. The outlooks are updated quarterly.

    $153,056 spent
    18% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $873,566.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($802k) Expenses 100 ($856k) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 98 ($785k) Expenses 129 ($1.1M) Net assets 72 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 102 ($819k) Expenses 106 ($911k) Net assets 77 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 86 ($689k) Expenses 84 ($720k) Net assets 78 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 97 ($775k) Expenses 98 ($839k) Net assets 82 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 111 ($889k) Expenses 125 ($1.1M) Net assets 55 ($853k)2023 Revenue 105 ($844k) Expenses 108 ($923k) Net assets 59 ($921k)2024 Revenue 129 ($1.0M) Expenses 132 ($1.1M) Net assets 52 ($819k)
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Revenue (129)Expenses (132)Net assets (52)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 2017 to 2018, from $1.9M to $1.5M (−20%).

$1.9M
$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.2M
$1.3M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

87% of EQUIPMENT LEASING & FINANCE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$54k
’17
−$318k
’18
−$92k
’19
−$31k
’20
−$64k
’21
−$178k
’22
−$78k
’23
−$97k
’24
0.7
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

Kelli Nienaber

Executive director

Board chair

Zack Marsh

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2325232220242424
Joined·+8+3+3+0+8+4+4
No longer listed·6542444
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $11k → $8k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $373k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Equipment Leasing and Finance Association). These are real filings, and they are not money EQUIPMENT LEASING & FINANCE FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of EQUIPMENT LEASING & FINANCE FOUNDATION 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

EQUIPMENT LEASING & FINANCE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

93% 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 EQUIPMENT LEASING & FINANCE FOUNDATION INC.

61%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 100% · 2021 55% · 2022 100% · 2023 94% — 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

93% of EQUIPMENT LEASING & FINANCE FOUNDATION 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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states.

CA
DE
NC

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

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’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EQUIPMENT LEASING & FINANCE FOUNDATION INC's revenue grew 29% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 7%Fundraising 15%

Governance

19
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 27 states

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Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Equipment Leasing and Finance Association Inc · exempt
  • Equipment Leasing and Finance Association PAC (Leasepac) · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds EQUIPMENT LEASING & FINANCE FOUNDATION INC?
EQUIPMENT LEASING & FINANCE FOUNDATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,890 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($27,890). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does EQUIPMENT LEASING & FINANCE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $45,890 in grants to EQUIPMENT LEASING & FINANCE FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EQUIPMENT LEASING & FINANCE FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $27,890 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EQUIPMENT LEASING & FINANCE FOUNDATION 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.

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 6 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