Georgia · Nonprofit
GREAT LEADERS STRONG SCHOOLS
GREAT LEADERS STRONG SCHOOLS (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,125 to it, the largest being READY COLORADO ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $141k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $263k
- Net assets
- $0
What Great Leaders Strong Schools does
Mission
Great leaders, strong school's (glss) primary purpose is to promote social welfare by conducting research, education and advocacy focused on ensuring a strong and equitable public education system in arizona.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization ceased operations at the end of june 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Public education and outreach: glss was founded on the premise that the public education system in arizona must be reoriented toward a focus on the practical needs of students and families. While arizona has instituted a robust basic infrastructure of school choice, glss believes that it must be fortified by strong mechanisms of accountability and equitable access to quality schools for all students. To this end, the organization developed an internet and social media presence to broadly disseminate information and mobilized parents and educators to support public policies that enhance school choice and access, empower individual schools to develop programs and initiatives tailored to their unique student populations, and strengthen accountability to taxpayers.
$105,270 spentof which $30,369 as grants100% of program spendingGrassroots and direct lobbying: glss directed a substantial proportion of its time and resources to the advocacy of legislative and regulatory solutions in arizona that (1) protect and expand parental choice; (2) encourage school autonomy and classroom innovation by administrators and teachers; (3) enhance students' ability to access quality schools; and (4) fortify accountability measures to ensure that tax dollars are used efficiently, effectively, and transparently connects funding levels to student achievement.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $105,270.
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.
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 $144k to $46k (−68%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $11k.
From the IRS filings of GREAT LEADERS STRONG SCHOOLS’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
GREAT LEADERS STRONG SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 GREAT LEADERS STRONG SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 56% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
GREAT LEADERS STRONG SCHOOLS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 4 states in all.
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.
Organizations like GREAT LEADERS STRONG SCHOOLS
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT LEADERS STRONG SCHOOLS: 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 GREAT LEADERS STRONG SCHOOLS?
- GREAT LEADERS STRONG SCHOOLS (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,125 to it, the largest being READY COLORADO ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT LEADERS STRONG SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $263,125 in grants to GREAT LEADERS STRONG SCHOOLS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT LEADERS STRONG SCHOOLS?
- READY COLORADO is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT LEADERS STRONG SCHOOLS 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 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