Ohio · Nonprofit
LEADERSPARK INC
LEADERSPARK INC (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,700 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($106,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2017
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $162k
- Net assets
- $72k
What Leaderspark Inc does
Mission
The mission is to ignite the power of youth leadership by providing practical leadership skills through a proven curriculum, training, and coaching support.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
Working with united way of central ohio, asian american community services, franklin county juvenile detention center, franklinton preparatory academy, community refugee immigration services, helping africans in new directions, starbucks stores, whitehall yearling school district. Worked with 440 youth, 112 adults, and 36 adult menotors. Provided leadership training (30 hours) in the following topics: "self efficacy", "qualities and styles of leadership", "working with groups", "planning projects", "dealing with conflict", "presenting myself & my brand": interviewing and employability skills. (over 95% of the participants are more confident about their leadership skills as a result of going through leaderspark.)
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $112k → $50k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 LEADERSPARK 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
LEADERSPARK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 LEADERSPARK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 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.
Where its funders are
66% of LEADERSPARK INC'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 $55k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k 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.
Organizations like LEADERSPARK 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 LEADERSPARK 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 LEADERSPARK INC?
- LEADERSPARK INC (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,700 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($106,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEADERSPARK INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $161,700 in grants to LEADERSPARK INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEADERSPARK INC?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $106,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEADERSPARK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 2 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