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Leadership Edge Incorporated
Leadership Edge Incorporated (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,584,861 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,515,040). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $668k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $294k
What Leadership Edge Incorporated does
Mission
To provide excellent leadership training through authentic mentoring of next generation leaders to equip them for a lifestyle of God-honoring influence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mentoring Services:-------------------The Organization continued mentoring university students and young professionals. There were 123 mentor-mentee relationships during the year, representing 75 active mentors and 123 mentees. These totals include students at Cedarville University, Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Colorado State University, and Miscio (Kampala, Uganda). Metropolitan areas with LEI Mentoring relationships with young professionals included Dallas, Fayetteville (AR), Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Raleigh-Durham, Reno, Washington D.C., Wichita, Winston-Salem, and Kampala, Uganda.
$173,863 spent$8,242 earned by the program53% of program spendingPartner Development: --------------------The Organization continued discussions with churches and other Christian nonprofits interested in the potential use of LEI programming within their organizations. Conversations centered on how best to train and equip men and women within the organization, as well as the cost to implement the program. LEI furthered its partnership with Miscio and worked with a growing number of churches, including:-Church in the Valley Alhambra in Alhambra, CA-The Grove Church in Kansas City, MO-RiverPark Church in Kansas City, MO-Chapel Hill Bible Church in Chapel Hill, NC-Grace Hill Church in Hillsborough, NC-The Summit Church in Raleigh, NC-United City Church in Houston, TX-Cornerstone Church in Warrenton, VA-New Hope Church in Lorton, VA-Watoto Church in Kampala, Uganda
$72,927 spent22% of program spendingProgram Development:-------------------The Organization finished leading six cohorts through its growing Leadership Development Program. This program consists of training on a vision for all of life, a model of leadership, and a method of mentoring. 91 individuals attended the trainings, with many completing it and moving on to putting the training into practice and beginning mentoring relationships. The Organization also conducted four mentor training sessions for 36 people.
$33,066 spent$13,500 earned by the program10% of program spendingSpeaking & Training:-------------------The Organization hosted 13 events, discussing topics related to vision and leadership with over 250 people in attendance. It also started or continued coaching services for 10 church leaders to aid in the adoption of programming.
$30,700 spent$1,010 earned by the program9% of program spendingAlumni Services: ----------------The Organization continued to provide support and encouragement to alumni throughout the year. We did this through our monthly newsletter and check-ins (phone, Zoom, letters) throughout the year, as alumni have requested. We also remind mentors and church Champions to check in with their mentees even after mentoring relationships have ended, to continue encouraging them in their pursuit of living out their faith in all of life.
$20,541 spent6% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $331,097.
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 2019 to 2020, from $49k to $201k (+309%).
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 11% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Leadership Edge Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Eric Smith
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $206k → $323k.
8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 Edge Incorporated’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 Edge Incorporated leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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
92% 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 Edge Incorporated.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 52% · 2019 52% · 2020 72% · 2021 55% · 2022 56% · 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
54% of Leadership Edge Incorporated's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
91% of Leadership Edge Incorporated'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 $229k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 Edge Incorporated runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Leadership Edge Incorporated receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- TRAINING, EDUCATION OR INSTRUCTION SRVC$3k
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 Edge Incorporated
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Leadership Edge Incorporated: 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 Edge Incorporated?
- Leadership Edge Incorporated (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,584,861 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,515,040). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Leadership Edge Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,584,861 in grants to Leadership Edge Incorporated, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Leadership Edge Incorporated?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,515,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Leadership Edge Incorporated 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 20 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