Colorado · Nonprofit
GLOBAL LEADERS INC
GLOBAL LEADERS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,439 to it, the largest being Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION ($190,390). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $360k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $307k
- Net assets
- $73k
What Global Leaders Inc does
Mission
Global Leaders educates youth to promote social environmental justice through education service. GL educates youth from diverse backgrounds to become active leaders through education service in the US and abroad. GL has invested in developing extraordinary youth leaders by challenging them to collaboratively confront complex global issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
A total of 51 students spend 12 days in Guatemala over a period of 2 months as a culmination to their 9 month leadership program. They stay with host families, sharing traditions, culture and language. Students also spend time on 4 service projects that substantially benefit the community. These projects include building clean and efficient cookstoves, reforestation, assisting at a coffee cooperative, and volunteering at a local hospital and orphanage.
$274,667 spent$104,045 earned by the program86% of program spendingStudents participate in a 9 month domestic leadership program that includes weekly service-learning opportunities with other local non-profit organizations monthly leadership seminars that focus on community issues and engagement.
$26,966 spent$14,073 earned by the program8% of program spendingWork Earn program allows students and their families to subsidize their program fees. Global Leaders staff assist in developing student skills such as service learning, planning execution, grant writing, fundraising public speaking.
$17,977 spent$15,601 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $319,610.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $62k to $115k (+88%).
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.
42% of GLOBAL LEADERS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Joseph Fontana
Executive director
Board chair
Casey Burgat
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $0 → $32k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 GLOBAL LEADERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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
GLOBAL LEADERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 GLOBAL LEADERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 65% · 2022 64% · 2023 98% — 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
33% of GLOBAL LEADERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
98% of GLOBAL LEADERS INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97k 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.
Against its field
GLOBAL LEADERS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GLOBAL LEADERS 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLOBAL LEADERS 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 GLOBAL LEADERS INC?
- GLOBAL LEADERS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,439 to it, the largest being Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION ($190,390). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLOBAL LEADERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $307,439 in grants to GLOBAL LEADERS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL LEADERS INC?
- Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $190,390 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL LEADERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 13 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