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Leaders for Life Inc

Leaders for Life Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,665,965 to it, the largest being SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE ($2,076,615). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
$2.1M
4/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What Leaders for Life Inc does

Mission

Leaders for Life, Inc. provide educational and mentoring services to at-risk youth in the greater Newark area.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Leaders for Life Alternative HS- prepares students to successfully pass the High School Equivalence exam. We provide course work and rigorous instruction to prepare students, with life skills needed to to be successful in the exam while allowing for increases in their personal knowledge and growth. We provide preparation over a 16 week period.

    $414,107 spent$850,000 earned by the program
    58% of program spending
  2. Leaders for Life Taking the Lead Afterschool Program- provides intensive tutoring using research- based strategies. Students learning styles are assessed and once instructional levels are determined one to one tutoring is provided to increase students capacity to comprehend grade level work by filling in gaps of knowledge.

    $169,506 spent$310,000 earned by the program
    24% of program spending
  3. Leaders for life Mentoring/ College Tours Program- LFL College tours provides cultural and educational experiences that invites students to take a closer look at Colleges Universities.

    $124,423 spent
    18% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $708,036.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($294k) Expenses 100 ($243k) Net assets 100 ($79k)2018 Revenue 188 ($553k) Expenses 148 ($359k) Net assets 269 ($211k)2019 Revenue 183 ($539k) Expenses 172 ($418k) Net assets 394 ($310k)2020 Revenue 202 ($594k) Expenses 189 ($459k) Net assets 392 ($308k)2021 Revenue 252 ($741k) Expenses 189 ($459k) Net assets 427 ($335k)2022 Revenue 396 ($1.2M) Expenses 285 ($692k) Net assets 1267 ($995k)2023 Revenue 420 ($1.2M) Expenses 406 ($986k) Net assets 1679 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 570 ($1.7M) Expenses 364 ($883k) Net assets 2624 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (570)Expenses (364)Net assets (2624)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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $2.1M (+56%).

$79k
$211k
$310k
$308k
$335k
$1.0M
$1.3M
$2.1M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 22% · 2018 16% · 2019 17% · 2020 16% · 2021 42% · 2022 36% · 2023 69% · 2024 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Leaders for Life Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$51k
’17
$193k
’18
$122k
’19
$135k
’20
$281k
’21
$472k
’22
$249k
’23
$793k
’24
23
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.

Chief executive

Altark White

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed55666666
Joined·+0+4+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0300000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $348k → $465k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Life 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

Leaders for Life Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

80% 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 Life Inc.

78%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 90% · 2020 81% · 2021 83% · 2022 86% · 2023 92% — broadly stable.

“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.

How long its funders stay

50% of Leaders for Life Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

98% of Leaders for Life Inc's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

NH
NJ
VA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Leaders for Life Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin47% · top quartile
Months of reserve22.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding Leaders for Life Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.

State$2.7M
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Top programs
  • FEDERAL$1.7M
  • GRANT IN AID$927k
  • TRUST FUND$146k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Leaders for Life 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 New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Leaders for Life Inc?
Leaders for Life Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,665,965 to it, the largest being SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE ($2,076,615). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Leaders for Life Inc have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $2,665,965 in grants to Leaders for Life Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Leaders for Life Inc?
SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $2,076,615 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Leaders for Life Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 9 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