Texas · Nonprofit
LEADERSHIP AUSTIN
LEADERSHIP AUSTIN (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,623,612 to it, the largest being ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ($838,200). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $280k
What Leadership Austin does
Mission
Leadership Austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Leadership Austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities. This work is delivered through a network of over 3,000 alumni leading in all sectors of our community, and through the programs delivered each year at Leadership Austin.
$694,671 spentof which $70,889 as grants$562,810 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $694,671.
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 2023 to 2024, from $567k to $315k (−44%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 21% · 2023 5% · 2024 7% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of LEADERSHIP AUSTIN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Jill Goodman
CEO
Board chair
Manny Gonzalez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $53k → $124k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $544k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Austin Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LEADERSHIP AUSTIN raised.
From the IRS filings of LEADERSHIP AUSTIN’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
LEADERSHIP AUSTIN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 LEADERSHIP AUSTIN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 97% · 2019 89% · 2020 55% · 2021 93% · 2022 73% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.
“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
43% of LEADERSHIP AUSTIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
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
58% of LEADERSHIP AUSTIN's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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.
Against its field
LEADERSHIP AUSTIN runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LEADERSHIP AUSTIN
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.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEADERSHIP AUSTIN: 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 LEADERSHIP AUSTIN?
- LEADERSHIP AUSTIN (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,623,612 to it, the largest being ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ($838,200). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEADERSHIP AUSTIN have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,623,612 in grants to LEADERSHIP AUSTIN, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEADERSHIP AUSTIN?
- ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $838,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEADERSHIP AUSTIN 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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