Texas · Nonprofit
Leadership Fort Worth
Leadership Fort Worth (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $250,548 to it, the largest being MARTHA SUE PARR TRUST XXXXX6005 ($130,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $565k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $251k
- Net assets
- $63k
What Leadership Fort Worth does
Mission
providing Fort Worth with diverse and enlightened leadership through the use of various programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
LeaderPrime provides information and leadership connections to CEOs and executives in order to inform, educate and involve them in the Fort Worth community. The target audience is CEOs and executives who are new to Fort Worth and/or to their positions. Spouses/partners are invited to participate as well. Goals: to offer extensive information on pertinent issues impacting the business environment locally, statewide, and nationally; to provide connections/introductions to significant leaders and the roles they play.
$127,152 spent$85,191 earned by the program33% of program spendingLeadership Class exposes established leaders to the diverse needs and issues in the community and enables them to become trustees of Fort Worth's future. The program provides a richer understanding of Fort Worth's hisory, current issues, future needs and opportunities. During this 9month program, participants collaborate with each other and community experts to make a difference through indepth issues initiative projects. Completion of the Leadership Class leads to becoming a member of Leadership Forum, a valuable network of talent that creates an environment for continuing development, education, and community trusteeship.
$109,390 spent$164,273 earned by the program29% of program spendingLeadingEdge offers Fort Worth's emerging leaders an opportunity to strengthen leadership practices, create connections with community leaders and move beyond volunteerism into board service. Completion of the 6month LeadingEdge program leads to becoming a member of LFW's Leadership Forum, a valuable network of talent that creates an environment for continuing development, education and community trusteeship. Graduates of the Leadership Class and Leading Edge classes become members of Leadership Fort Worth. LFW is committed to maintaining the connections that its members have to each other and to the Fort Worth community by providing programs that provide continuing education on leadership, updates on new entities/ initiatives in Fort Worth, and socializing/networking among members of Leadership Fort Worth.
$75,923 spent$72,077 earned by the program20% of program spendingLeaderKids is a partnership with the Fort Worth Independent School District (ISD) to select eighthgrade students representing all the middle schools in the school district and offer wellrounded opportunities and experiences for participants in an effort to create future leaders.LeaderKids targets underperforming 8th graders to assist them in recognizing their potential, discovering leadership abilities, and setting high goals for themselves, all in the context of cummunity volunteerism. This program partners with the Fort Worth ISD as a part of its Stay In School initiative. Fortysix students meet monthly to learn about careers and educational opportunities and to practice leadership skills. The culmination of the year is a community service project that allows them to practice their new skills and work with a number of community partners.
$68,665 spent18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $381,130.
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 $377k to $248k (−34%).
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.
48% of Leadership Fort Worth’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. 8 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
Mattie Parker
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $55k → $16.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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: $67k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities Foundation of Texas Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Leadership Fort Worth raised.
From the IRS filings of Leadership Fort Worth’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 Fort Worth leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 100% · 2022 88% · 2023 100% — 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
20% of Leadership Fort Worth's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
Leadership Fort Worth draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
Against its field
Leadership Fort Worth receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $251k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Leadership Fort Worth
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Leadership Fort Worth?
- Leadership Fort Worth (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $250,548 to it, the largest being MARTHA SUE PARR TRUST XXXXX6005 ($130,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Leadership Fort Worth have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $250,548 in grants to Leadership Fort Worth, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Leadership Fort Worth?
- MARTHA SUE PARR TRUST XXXXX6005 is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Leadership Fort Worth 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.
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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 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