Arizona · Nonprofit
Leading for Change Inc
Leading for Change Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $316,837 to it, the largest being THE GROVE FOUNDATION ($230,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $132k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $317k
- Net assets
- $351k
What Leading for Change Inc does
Mission
To provide leaders and emerging leaders with the necessary and effective tools, resources and networks to advance social and economic justice in their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The LFC Leaders Fellowship is an eight month training program that focuses on social and economic justice. Components of the program include five weekend trainings, one on one professional coaching, mentoring and projects. The 2025 class had 25 participants.
$114,647 spent72% of program spendingThe LFC non partisan Candidate Training provides three weekend trainings to provide individuals with information on what it takes to run for office or serve on a campaign team. Topics covered include fundraising, messaging, recruiting volunteers and components of a campaign plan. There were two trainings in 2025 for 20 participants,10 in each training class.
$45,559 spent28% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $160,206.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $183k to $255k (+39%).
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 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of Leading for Change Inc’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. 1 of the last 7 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
Beth Meyer
President & CEO
Board chair
Allison Ewers
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $70k.
5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 Leading for Change 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 for Change Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% 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 Leading for Change Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 100% · 2023 43% — 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
Leading for Change Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 for Change Inc's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Leading for Change 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Leading for Change 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 Leading for Change Inc?
- Leading for Change Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $316,837 to it, the largest being THE GROVE FOUNDATION ($230,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Leading for Change Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $316,837 in grants to Leading for Change Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Leading for Change Inc?
- THE GROVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Leading for Change Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 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