Ohio · Nonprofit
LEAD TRAINING
LEAD TRAINING (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $399,425 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $865k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $399k
- Net assets
- $614k
What Lead Training does
Mission
Lead Training is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that equips students in grades k - 12 with career readiness, life skills, and social-emotional tools they need to succeed. Through hands-on learning and real-world exposure, Lead Training empowers young people to confidently navigate their future by providing the skills, confidence, and opportunities needed to thrive in life and in the workplace, regardless of background or circumstance. Lead Training focuses especially on those students who feel stuck, unsupported, or uncertain about their future, nurturing them into engaged, empowered, and forward-thinking leaders with a clear sense of purpose and direction.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Lead Training's high school workforce initiative (hswi) prepares the next generation of professionals through career exploration, experiential learning, individualized coaching, and employability skills training, especially for students not pursuing a traditional four-year college path. It connects students to local companies through tours, presentations, job shadowing, and hands-on workshops, helping them build confidence about their future. In the 2024-2025 school year, the initiative served over 2,500 students, up from 1,700 in the prior year. Over 400 students received individualized guidance with one-on-one support. The initiative began offering a medical pathway program in the 2024-2025 school year, including stna certification, driver's education, and connection to hospital-based roles. The future leaders program focuses on teaching students 21st-century skills and solcial -emotional learning (sel) that support their academic, personal, and professional success.
$537,013 spentof which $17,807 as grants$378,959 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $537,013.
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 2025 to 2026, from $403k to $662k (+64%).
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: 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of LEAD TRAINING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Riley O'Grady
Executive director
Board chair
James Biro
Board president
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $70k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 TRAINING’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 TRAINING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% 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
71% 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 TRAINING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 29% · 2023 70% — 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
75% of LEAD TRAINING's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k 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 TRAINING runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 143 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 143 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like LEAD TRAINING
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 LEAD TRAINING: 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 TRAINING?
- LEAD TRAINING (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $399,425 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEAD TRAINING have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $399,425 in grants to LEAD TRAINING, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAD TRAINING?
- United Way of Greater Cincinnati is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAD TRAINING 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 13 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