Delaware · Nonprofit
LEADERSHIP DELAWARE INC
LEADERSHIP DELAWARE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,242,710 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($557,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $506k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Leadership Delaware Inc does
Mission
Leadership delaware, inc. (ldi) recruits outstanding delawareans and prepares them with the knowledge, vision, integrity and networks to significantly impact and transform their communities, and to excel at community, non-profit, political, professional and coirporate leadership within the first state.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organzation's (ldi) 17th annual graduation of 19 fellows follows a series of 10 monthly sessions throughout delaware. A typical monthly session was comprised of seven presentations held on thursday day, then thursday night hosted by an ldi supporter and featuring a keynote speaker. The conclusing session was held on friday and comprised of seven presentations. Speakers included, but were not limited to, buisness, professional, non-profit and government leaders. Fellows were afforded the unique opportunity to interact with, learn from and develop relationships with nationally recognized intellectual, cultural, educational,social and political leaders from throughout delaware.
$461,227 spent$94,507 earned by the program97% of program spendingThe leadership development series is a six-part educational opportunity for professionals focused on teaching leadership skills outside the core leadership program. In 2025, 50+ professionals participated in the program. The topics presented were: leadership and people, workforce communication, leadership and team, leading in a hybrid workplace, public policy 101, and public speaking.
$16,120 spent$91,037 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $477,347.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $1.6M (+25%).
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: 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of LEADERSHIP DELAWARE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Mike Eppehimer
CEO
Board chair
Joel M Brownn Ii
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $130k → $111k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 LEADERSHIP DELAWARE 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
LEADERSHIP DELAWARE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 66% · 2019 80% · 2020 49% · 2021 25% · 2022 66% · 2023 45% — 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
36% of LEADERSHIP DELAWARE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
96% of LEADERSHIP DELAWARE INC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 DELAWARE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,065 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,065 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding LEADERSHIP DELAWARE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $112k on record.
- GRANTS IN AID$47k
- TRAINING$28k
- ASSOC DUES AND CONF FEES$17k
- GRANTS$15k
- TRAINING SUPPLIES$5k
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 LEADERSHIP DELAWARE 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
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 DELAWARE INC: 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 DELAWARE INC?
- LEADERSHIP DELAWARE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,242,710 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($557,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEADERSHIP DELAWARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,242,710 in grants to LEADERSHIP DELAWARE INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEADERSHIP DELAWARE INC?
- LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $557,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEADERSHIP DELAWARE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 21 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