New York · Nonprofit
LEADERSHIP TRAINING INC
LEADERSHIP TRAINING INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $671,731 to it, the largest being CITI FOUNDATION ($400,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $672k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Leadership Training Inc does
Mission
Leadership training institute (lti) is a notforprofit 501(c)(3)organization dedicated to empowering challenged families and children to overcome barriers, tap potential and achieve success through education, mentoring and social justice advocacy. Central to the institute's philosophy are the concepts of advocacy and service, that is, the general welfare of all and the development and maintenance of leadership qualities and skills. By means of policy, posture and programs, lti directs its major efforts to the design and implementation of educational, employment, career development, mentoring, juvenile and criminal justice, violence prevention and capacity building initiatives. Lti collaborates with new york colleges and universities providing field placements and internships for undergraduate and graduate students in social work, education, anthropology, sociology, psychology and criminal justice. Lti is governed by a diverse board of directors that reflects the communities it serves an
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational and guidance services for youth and families: these services designed to instruct, guide, and empower highrisk youth and young adults through classroom instruction, enrichment activities and issue specific workshops. Lti also conducts developmental and careeroriented services for youth in high school. Lti assists youth with academic support through mentoring and tutorial programs. Lti's educational and guidance services promote learning and family advocacy, ensuring brighter outcomes for youth and their families.
$479,639 spent$612,517 earned by the program27% of program spendingEmployment and workforce development services: these services focus on supporting the highrisk adult population seeking employment. The program offers job readiness and soft skills training services that are designed to increase hiring potential and foster economical mobility of hard to place/employ individuals. In addition, our services provide employment options as well as entrepreneurial development creating varied career pathways for our clients. We also offer job placement opportunities through community and corporate partnerships.
$612,517 spent$362,008 earned by the program34% of program spendingReentry services: these services assist incarcerated individuals and formerly incarcerated individuals to successfully reintegrate back into society. The services assist justice involved individual's reentry by providing cognitive behavioral intervention (cbi) training, comprehensive case management, assisting clients in the navigation of housing referrals, substance use services, anger management treatment, counseling, mentoring and employment services.
$709,508 spent$820,453 earned by the program39% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,801,664.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.6M to $3.0M (+18%).
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 8% · 2024 0% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of LEADERSHIP TRAINING INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% 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
Aster Mehreteab
CEO
Board chair
Rosemary Olsen Esq
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $80k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 TRAINING 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 TRAINING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
64% of LEADERSHIP TRAINING INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 TRAINING INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LEADERSHIP TRAINING 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 TRAINING 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 TRAINING INC?
- LEADERSHIP TRAINING INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $671,731 to it, the largest being CITI FOUNDATION ($400,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEADERSHIP TRAINING INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $671,731 in grants to LEADERSHIP TRAINING INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEADERSHIP TRAINING INC?
- CITI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEADERSHIP TRAINING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 4 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