Maryland · Nonprofit
JOURNEY TO LEAD INC
JOURNEY TO LEAD INC (Maryland) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,803,000 to it, the largest being JENNY JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,270,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Journey to Lead Inc does
Mission
To accelerate the trajectory of women leaders by connecting next-generation top talent with accomplished business executives, while providing coaching and leadership development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Journey's largest program service is its year-long fellowship, which includes four in-person convenings, monthly virtual sessions, and issue-area working groups. Programming supports journey's rising leaders in expanding their networks, broadening their perspectives, and scaling their leadership and organizations.
$1,266,365 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,266,365.
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 2022 to 2023, from $651k to $1.6M (+142%).
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.
97% of JOURNEY TO LEAD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (68% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Julie Scholsser
Executive director
Board chair
Nina Easton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $510k → $1.3M.
11 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 JOURNEY TO LEAD 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
JOURNEY TO LEAD INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
40% 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 JOURNEY TO LEAD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 49% · 2022 39% · 2023 19% — 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.
Where its funders are
JOURNEY TO LEAD INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
JOURNEY TO LEAD INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 234 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 234 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like JOURNEY TO LEAD 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOURNEY TO LEAD 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 JOURNEY TO LEAD INC?
- JOURNEY TO LEAD INC (Maryland) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,803,000 to it, the largest being JENNY JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,270,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOURNEY TO LEAD INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $4,803,000 in grants to JOURNEY TO LEAD INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOURNEY TO LEAD INC?
- JENNY JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,270,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOURNEY TO LEAD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 22 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