Kentucky · Nonprofit
GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC
GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,407,120 to it, the largest being LAWRENCE & AUGUSTA HAGER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($1,274,087). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $291k
What Greater Owensboro Leadership Institute Inc does
Mission
Equipping people, organizations, communities, and networks with the tools to bridge divides, build capacity, and tackle shared challenges to become a collective force for change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Greater Owensboro Leadership Institute, in partnership with The Harwood Institute and local organizations, engaged residents and community leaders throughout Greater Owensboro Daviess County to strengthen civic capacity, leadership development, and community engagement. During 2025 these efforts included community conversations, public knowledge sharing sessions, collaborative planning forums, and leadership trainings facilitated by trained residents and volunteers. The Institute also hosted public presentations and educational workshops reaching hundreds of residents and partner organizations.
$323,319 spent80% of program spendingThe Institute supported community driven action through four community action teams focused on arts and culture, health, housing and homelessness, and youth engagement. These teams remained active throughout the year, helping residents identify community priorities and pursue collaborative responses to local challenges. Additional programming included civic engagement workshops, community leadership and public conversation trainings, webinars, orientation sessions, and presentations on adaptive leadership and community problem solving approaches designed to strengthen local civic capacity. These programs advanced the Institutes mission to equip individuals, organizations, and communities with the tools, relationships, and civic practices necessary to strengthen local leadership, foster collaboration, and address shared community challenges.
$79,758 spent20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $403,077.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $24k to $706k (+2831%).
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.
84% of GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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
Stacy Edds-Ellis
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE 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
GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
“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 GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
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
GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC's revenue fell 70% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,277 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC
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In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE 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 GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC?
- GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,407,120 to it, the largest being LAWRENCE & AUGUSTA HAGER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($1,274,087). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,407,120 in grants to GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC?
- LAWRENCE & AUGUSTA HAGER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,274,087 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2023–2025), 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