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LEADERS FOR ETHICS ANIMALS & THE PLANET

LEADERS FOR ETHICS ANIMALS & THE PLANET (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $299,404 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$106k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$299k
Net assets
$95k
1/8 repeat funders
01What it does

What Leaders for Ethics Animals & the Planet does

Mission

Leap is the first-of-its-kind humane education program to reach high school students as a compassionate alternative to traditional agricultural programs like 4h and ffa.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support, encourage and promote humane education by connecting high school students with non-profit animal sanctuaries to learn about hands-on, compassionate animal care, our food and agricultural system, and respectful stewardship of our planet, and to receive, invest, and utilize funds and property acquired through solicitation of contributions, donations, grants, gifts, bequests, and the like for charitable education purposes.

    $111,423 spentof which $17,364 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $111,423.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.

100 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($294k) Expenses 100 ($141k) Net assets 100 ($178k)2025 Revenue 36 ($106k) Expenses 135 ($189k) Net assets 53 ($95k)
20242025
Revenue (36)Expenses (135)Net assets (53)Peer revenue range

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 $178k to $112k (−37%).

$178k
$112k
20242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

101% of LEADERS FOR ETHICS ANIMALS & THE PLANET’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,065 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$153k
’24
−$83k
’25
7.1
months of
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.

20242025
Listed86
Joined·+1
No longer listed·3
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 LEADERS FOR ETHICS ANIMALS & THE PLANET’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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

LEADERS FOR ETHICS ANIMALS & THE PLANET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

84% 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 LEADERS FOR ETHICS ANIMALS & THE PLANET.

42%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

“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

71% of LEADERS FOR ETHICS ANIMALS & THE PLANET'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 $87k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.

IN
CA
FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $212k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LEADERS FOR ETHICS ANIMALS & THE PLANET is better cushioned than half of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−79% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−64% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like LEADERS FOR ETHICS ANIMALS & THE PLANET

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 22%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEADERS FOR ETHICS ANIMALS & THE PLANET?
LEADERS FOR ETHICS ANIMALS & THE PLANET (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $299,404 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LEADERS FOR ETHICS ANIMALS & THE PLANET have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $299,404 in grants to LEADERS FOR ETHICS ANIMALS & THE PLANET, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEADERS FOR ETHICS ANIMALS & THE PLANET?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEADERS FOR ETHICS ANIMALS & THE PLANET find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 8 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