Ohio · Nonprofit
LEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY
LEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $579,108 to it, the largest being ASPYR ($426,603). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $579k
- Net assets
- $809k
What Lead the Way Learning Academy does
Mission
Lead the Way Learning Academy's mission is to empower the youth with clarity, inspiration, drive, and opportunities for growth. Lead the Way Learning Academy achieves this through cutting-edge, researched-backed programs and services designed to provide a profound sense of purpose in every individual we serve. Lead the Way Learning Academy's vision is to become the foremost partner and resource for parents, students, educators, employers and the community at large, universally recognized and chosen for our innovative and impactful contributions to workforce development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, Lead the Way Learning Academy helped equip over 800 youth participants with the skills and confidence needed to thrive in their futures. Thanks to our dedicated programs in youth development and workforce readiness, more than 200 high school seniors proudly graduated, while over 60 students advanced to the next grade level. Additionally, more than 70 participants earned industry-recognized credentials, opening doors to meaningful career opportunities that they showed interest in. We believe in incentivizing success our measurable skills gain tracking kept students engaged and rewarded their achievements, resulting in over 400 incentives paid to youth for their continued commitment to their in- school education. Beyond academics, we provided crucial supportive services to over 90 students. This ensured they had access to driver's education, college visits (including transportation), work essentials, enrollment fees, and even laptops for their continued educaiton or career field. All at no cost to the youth or their families.
$2,714,262 spent$188,750 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,714,262.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $651k to $1.0M (+54%).
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: 2019 72% · 2020 94% · 2021 99% · 2022 95% · 2023 95% · 2024 90% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of LEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $123k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY’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
LEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 LEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 87% · 2023 80% — 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
100% of LEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
LEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY: 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 LEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY?
- LEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $579,108 to it, the largest being ASPYR ($426,603). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $579,108 in grants to LEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY?
- ASPYR is the largest funder on record, with $426,603 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAD THE WAY LEARNING ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2019–2025), 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