Georgia · Nonprofit
Growing Leaders Inc
Growing Leaders Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $511,396 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($170,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $0
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $511k
- Net assets
- $0
What Growing Leaders Inc does
Mission
The Mission of Growing Leaders is to inspire ordinary students to grow into values-oriented leaders
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Growing Leaders provided 66 training events for approximately 23,394 people across the United States during fiscal year 2024. Most of the events were for adults who teach, coach, or mentor young people and to equip them to better connect with the emerging generation. These training events prepared adults to teach social emotional learning, leadership, and character development: the soft skills needed for student to lead in real life. Some events were offered directly to students to inspire and motivate them to fulfill their potential and take on real life opportunities and challenge. It is estimated that the material and content of these events reached over 5,570 students in fiscal year 2024.
$1,593,983 spent$1,649,313 earned by the program100% of program spendingGrowing Leaders provided digital character, leadership, and soft skills training resources for students from 548 schools, sports teams, and other organizations working with young people. The primary curriculum is called "Habitudes: Images that Form Leadership Habits and Attitudes and it uses the power of images, conversations, experiences to teach important life skills in a way that students today want to learn. The resources are provided in both digital and print formats. It is estimated that the resources were shared with 169,832 students in fiscal year 2024 and taught by 16,223 facilitators. Growing Leaders also released fully updated content for its high school curriculum via our Habitudes Online platform in in effort to stay relevant to today's students.
In addition, Dr. Tim Elmore, The Founder of Growing Leaders, wrote a weekly blog, co-hosted weekly podcasts with Andrew McPeak, Vice President of Content, and wrote three e-books to better engage with and help others engage with the emerging generations. These efforts reached over 105,000 people who subscribe to Growing Leaders' social media and content channels.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,593,983.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.2M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Mark Cole
CEO/Non-voting
Board chair
James Blanchard
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $16k → $232k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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: $261k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Growing Leaders Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Growing Leaders 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
Growing Leaders Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 Growing Leaders Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 97% · 2019 90% · 2020 37% · 2021 39% · 2022 30% · 2023 67% — 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
50% of Growing Leaders Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
59% of Growing Leaders 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 $212k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $299k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like Growing 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 2 related entities
- Maxwell Leadership Foundation · exempt
- Equip · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Growing 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 Growing Leaders Inc?
- Growing Leaders Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $511,396 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($170,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Growing Leaders Inc have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $511,396 in grants to Growing Leaders Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Growing Leaders Inc?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Growing Leaders 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 10 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