New York · Nonprofit
LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE INC
LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE INC (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,656,440 to it, the largest being THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION ($9,646,100). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Leading Edge Alliance Inc does
Mission
Leading edge unites jewish nonprofits in pursuit of a shared standard of excellence in talent, culture, and leadership, working with organizations and their people to deliver greater impact.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Leadership ganizational standards leading edge defines and raises the standard for talent, culture, and leadership across the jewish nonprofit field. We equip executives, senior leaders, and boards to lead at the highest level, and help organizations understand where they stand and what it takes to reach higher. When leaders and organizations meet a shared standard of excellence, the communities they serve grow stronger too.
$4,647,604 spentof which $835,600 as grants$706,533 earned by the program50% of program spendingWorkplace culture & employee experience we help jewish nonprofits build workplace cultures where excellent people choose to build their careers, strengthening how organizations recruit, retain, and invest in their people. Tens of thousands of professionals and board members take our employee experience survey, are jpro members, attend jpro conferences, and participate in our programs to strengthen their results.
$2,529,412 spent$25,000 earned by the program27% of program spendingTalent development leading edge brings professionals together through leadership development opportunities to build a professional community where people invested in this work can push each other forward. We work with individuals across every level of organizational life - from early-career staff to board leaders - because a stronger field requires investment at every level.
$2,033,357 spent$1,525,000 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,210,373.
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 $9.4M to $25M (+167%).
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.
92% of LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Gali Cooks
Board member/president/CEO
Board chair
Daryl Messinger
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $100k → $2.2M.
5 of 21 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: $2.7M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jack Joseph and Morton Mandel Supporting Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE 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
LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 90% · 2019 92% · 2020 62% · 2021 45% · 2022 62% · 2023 58% — 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 LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% 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
LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $310k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
33%
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 2 related entities
- Turntables LLC · disregarded
- Jpro Network Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE INC?
- LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE INC (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,656,440 to it, the largest being THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION ($9,646,100). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $19,656,440 in grants to LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE INC?
- THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,646,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE 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.
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 21 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