Texas · Nonprofit
LEAD FIRST FOUNDATION OF CORPUS CHRISTI
LEAD FIRST FOUNDATION OF CORPUS CHRISTI (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $356,106 to it, the largest being COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($356,106). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $137k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $356k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Lead First Foundation of Corpus Christi does
Mission
To teach democratic values, life skills, leadership skills, educational skills and career development skills to youth through hands on experiences.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Food, clothes, shoes and school supplies for students at the health and education fair.
$23,744 spent60% of program spendingMatching mentors with at risk students and increasing membership in the middle and high school learning programs.
$9,599 spent24% of program spendingTrips for students to san antonio to visit alamo and attend a spurs game.
$6,208 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,551.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2019 to 2020, from $30k to $69k (+130%).
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.
100% of LEAD FIRST FOUNDATION OF CORPUS CHRISTI’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Guy Nickleson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $40k → $47k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LEAD FIRST FOUNDATION OF CORPUS CHRISTI’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.
Where its funders are
100% of LEAD FIRST FOUNDATION OF CORPUS CHRISTI'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $356k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LEAD FIRST FOUNDATION OF CORPUS CHRISTI's revenue grew 25% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LEAD FIRST FOUNDATION OF CORPUS CHRISTI
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEAD FIRST FOUNDATION OF CORPUS CHRISTI?
- LEAD FIRST FOUNDATION OF CORPUS CHRISTI (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $356,106 to it, the largest being COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($356,106). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEAD FIRST FOUNDATION OF CORPUS CHRISTI have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $356,106 in grants to LEAD FIRST FOUNDATION OF CORPUS CHRISTI, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAD FIRST FOUNDATION OF CORPUS CHRISTI?
- COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $356,106 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAD FIRST FOUNDATION OF CORPUS CHRISTI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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