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LEADS Inc

LEADS Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,481,750 to it, the largest being ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($675,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.0M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$468k
6/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What LEADS Inc does

Mission

To create a future for gateway cities where existing and emerging leaders connect and collaborate across sectors to amplify their skills and talents.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The LEADS Fellowship is a 10-month executive leadership program, designed and delivered by Harvard Business School instructors and customized with local context and knowledge of participating Gateway City leaders. The LEADS Network further connects fellows from across cohorts and regions as a robust alumni platform through which disparate actors work together to make positive change, with specific emphasis on making systems-level change on issues that disproportionately impact underserved parts of the community.

    $514,463 spentof which $11,500 as grants$346,890 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $514,463.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($742k) Expenses 100 ($513k) Net assets 100 ($229k)2023 Revenue 127 ($946k) Expenses 156 ($799k) Net assets 164 ($376k)2024 Revenue 84 ($624k) Expenses 152 ($782k) Net assets 95 ($218k)2025 Revenue 136 ($1.0M) Expenses 148 ($760k) Net assets 204 ($468k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (136)Expenses (148)Net assets (204)Peer revenue range

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 $272k to $519k (+91%).

$233k
$397k
$272k
$519k
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

65% of LEADS Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$229k
’22
$147k
’23
−$158k
’24
$250k
’25
4.9
months of
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

Pamela Hallagan

Executive Director

Board chair

Jeff Bussgang

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed5668
Joined·+1+0+2
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $100k → $458k.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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: $275k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lawrence Partnership Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LEADS Inc raised.

From the IRS filings of LEADS 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

LEADS Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

57% 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 LEADS Inc.

46%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 48% · 2023 59% — 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

55% of LEADS 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 $661k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $821k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LEADS Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding LEADS Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $152k on record.

State$152k
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$150k
  • (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$3k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like LEADS 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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 25%Fundraising 7%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEADS 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 LEADS Inc?
LEADS Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,481,750 to it, the largest being ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($675,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LEADS Inc have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,481,750 in grants to LEADS Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEADS Inc?
ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $675,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEADS Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 15 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