New York · Nonprofit
LEAP INC
LEAP INC (New York) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,013,698 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($8,006,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.2M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Leap Inc does
Mission
Leap empowers low and moderate income people by helping them gain access to living-wage employment opportunities and career paths. We seek to develop programs that counter prevailing market inequalities and contribute to a broader movement for economic justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Red hook on the road:red hook on the road is bwi's commercial driving training program. This four-week program prepares participants for jobs as drivers of "class b/bps" commercial vehicles including trucks, school buses, coach or charter buses, airport shuttle buses and access-a-ride and other para-transit vehicles. The course consists of industry-specific skills, such as map-reading and behind-the-wheel instruction, as well as job readiness and soft skills, such as mock interviews and customer service training. In 2025, bwi enrolled 240 individuals into training, graduating 93%. Subsequently, 85% of graduates obtained their cdl certification, and 79% of those licensed have been connected to employment. Starting wages for working graduates are $24.87/hour, on average.
$1,558,153 spent23% of program spendingBwi's nycha resident training academy:bwi's new york city housing authority (nycha) resident training academy prepares public housing residents for careers with the new york city housing authority (nycha). Trainees participate in up to six weeks of training for various employment opportunities including pest control techs and janitorial caretaker positions - in nycha developments throughout the five boroughs. Positions with nycha offer union membership, opportunities for advancement, and excellent benefits. In 2025, this program enrolled 326 individuals, graduating 94% of those enrolled. Thus far, 85% of graduates have been placed into jobs earning $17.49 on average.
$935,677 spent14% of program spendingBrooklyn woods: brooklyn woods trains new yorkers for careers in woodworking and fabrication. Through seven weeks of classroom and hands-on training, graduates learn shop production, wood technology, finishing techniques, cabinet installation, mechanical drawing, and the safe use and proper care of hand and power tools in bwi's custom-built woodworking shop. Graduates are placed in jobs at large and small woodworking shops, metal or light manufacturing shops, property management firms, and more. Brooklyn woods also operates a cabinet-building social enterprise that offers employment opportunities to recent graduates. In 2025, brooklyn woods enrolled 58 participants, graduating 95%. At this time, 51% of graduates have been placed in jobs in the sector, earning $20.28 on average.
$661,076 spent10% of program spending"made in ny" production assistant training program:the "made in ny" production assistant (pa) training program connects underrepresented new yorkers with careers in tv and film production through hands-on training. The intensive four-week program is offered in partnership with the nyc mayor's office of media and entertainment. Participants learn set and office production assistant skills and are placed in jobs on feature films, episodic and reality tv, commercials, music videos and other productions. In 2025, this program enrolled 80 individuals, graduating 96%. Thus far, 62% of graduates have been connected to employment and are earning an average of $25.67/hour. Placements for 2025 are still being impacted by writers (wga) and actors (sag-aftra) strikes, and the subsequent threat of strikes by other industry unions, but as the industry recovers, robust hiring in nyc is expected to resume. "made in ny" post production training program:the "made in ny" post production program offers five weeks of training on industry-standard post production software and certification by the new york city mayor's office of media and entertainment. The program prepares graduates each year for…
$3,591,526 spentof which $71,180 as grants$454,184 earned by the program53% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,746,432.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7.0M to $14M (+107%).
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: 2017 22% · 2018 18% · 2019 21% · 2020 20% · 2021 15% · 2022 23% · 2023 16% · 2024 7% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of LEAP INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% 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
Aaron Shiffman
Executive director
Board chair
June Yearwood
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $330k → $11M.
14 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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: $303k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fifth Avenue Committee Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LEAP INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LEAP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 funders by total. 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
LEAP INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 LEAP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 41% · 2019 33% · 2020 27% · 2021 26% · 2022 27% · 2023 76% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of LEAP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
77% of LEAP 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. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
LEAP INC's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 35 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LEAP 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 40 related entities
- 130 29th Street Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
- 50th Street Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
- 573 Warren Street Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
- 575 Fifth Avenue Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
- Fac Advance Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEAP INC?
- LEAP INC (New York) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,013,698 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($8,006,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEAP INC have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $23,013,698 in grants to LEAP INC, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAP INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $8,006,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAP 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 83 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing