North Carolina · Nonprofit
LEADERSHIP CHARLOTTE
LEADERSHIP CHARLOTTE (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $232,172 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($146,400). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $472k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $232k
- Net assets
- $744k
What Leadership Charlotte does
Mission
The mission of Leadership Charlotte is to develop and enhance volunteer community leadership by providing a diverse group of emerging and existing leaders with the opportunity to increase their community knowledge, civic network, and service to the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Leadership Charlotte program is for emerging and existing leaders. It is the organization's flagship program and is the backstage pass to the charlotte community. It is a two-part program, starting with ten once-a-month program days in which approximately 60 participants explore current issues with a variety of community leaders. The program is complete after participants serve on a committee that coordinates one of these program days for the incoming class.
$324,470 spentof which $12,500 as grants$314,417 earned by the program87% of program spendingEncounter charlotte is a two-day orientation to charlotte and to community leadership. This program is open to newcomers to charlotte and to those who simply want to get involved. Participants learn first-hand from a range of community leaders about what makes charlotte work. Participants will come away with new relationships, a greater knowledge of the local community, and specific ways they can make a difference in the community.
$32,926 spent$31,840 earned by the program9% of program spendingEach year, Leadership Charlotte offers a variety of social events and leadership events, as well as an awards ceremony, for alumni in order to maintain communications with one another and the community.
$14,216 spent$13,746 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $371,612.
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 $623k to $730k (+17%).
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 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
21% of LEADERSHIP CHARLOTTE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Elizabeth Mckee
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $19k → $25k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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: $68k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation for the Carolinas). These are real filings, and they are not money LEADERSHIP CHARLOTTE raised.
From the IRS filings of LEADERSHIP CHARLOTTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
LEADERSHIP CHARLOTTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 CHARLOTTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 93% · 2019 66% · 2020 81% · 2021 81% · 2022 65% · 2023 55% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of LEADERSHIP CHARLOTTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
82% of LEADERSHIP CHARLOTTE'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 $42k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $190k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 CHARLOTTE is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LEADERSHIP CHARLOTTE
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 LEADERSHIP CHARLOTTE: 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 CHARLOTTE?
- LEADERSHIP CHARLOTTE (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $232,172 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($146,400). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEADERSHIP CHARLOTTE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $232,172 in grants to LEADERSHIP CHARLOTTE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEADERSHIP CHARLOTTE?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $146,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEADERSHIP CHARLOTTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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