Tennessee · Nonprofit
LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE
LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,751,041 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,000,970). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $715k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $565k
What Leadership Ministries Worldwide does
Mission
The organization was created for the purpose of editing (writing), distributing (equipping), and translating into foreign languages (translating) "the preacher's outline & sermon bible" (posb) and related materials. The organization also trains ministers, teachers and christians throughout the world in how to properly use the posb to reach and disciple men, women, and children for jesus christ (training).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Equipping - win others to jesus christ through the distribution of "the preacher's outline and sermon bible" amd a related series of "outline bible" materials and auxiliary activities necessary for that distribution.
$349,249 spent45% of program spendingTranslating - win others to jesus christ through the distribution of "the preacher's outline and sermon bible" amd a related series of "outline bible" materials and auxiliary activities necessary for that distribution.
$176,929 spent23% of program spendingTraining - win others to jesus christ through the distribution of "the preacher's outline and sermon bible" amd a related series of "outline bible" materials and auxiliary activities necessary for that distribution.
$146,944 spent19% of program spendingEditing - win others to jesus christ through the distribution of "the preacher's outline and sermon bible- and a related series of "outline bible" materials and auxiliary activities necessary for that distribution.
$105,400 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $778,522.
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 $562k to $816k (+45%).
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: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Ron G Lyles
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $312k → $225k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE’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 MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 78% · 2019 57% · 2020 61% · 2021 64% · 2022 61% · 2023 51% — 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
60% of LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
79% of LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE'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 $370k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE's revenue fell 40% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,850 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Outline Bible Charitable Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE: 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 MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE?
- LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,751,041 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,000,970). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,751,041 in grants to LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,970 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 8 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