Massachusetts · Nonprofit
LEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC
LEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,527,905 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($498,675). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $645k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $363k
What Leap Self-Defense Inc does
Mission
To train at-risk girls aged 8-18 in verbal and physical safety skills and self-awareness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Girls leap is one of few violence prevention programs that work exclusively with girls ages 8-18, to give them the tools to protect themselves and advocate for their own safety. Our unique self-defense and empowerment programs are based on a curriculum that stresses physical safety skills and socio-emotional, reflective activities that address the development of conflict resolution skills, violence , de-escalation, self-esteem and courage, each program is hosted by a partner organization that provides facilities, recruits participants and covers a portion of program costs, programs are taught by all-female, intergenerational teaching teams that include an adult lead teacher, several undergraduate teaching assistants (teaching women) and one to two teenage assistants. (teen mentors)
$337,251 spent$11,550 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $337,251.
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 2018 to 2019, from $27k to $124k (+354%).
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 1% · 2018 0% · 2020 21% · 2021 0% · 2022 7% · 2023 8% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of LEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% 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.
Board chair
Andrea Haddad
Development chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $60k → $249k.
6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 LEAP SELF-DEFENSE 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
LEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
64% 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 SELF-DEFENSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 43% · 2019 69% · 2020 51% · 2021 23% · 2022 26% · 2023 22% — 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
36% of LEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
51% of LEAP SELF-DEFENSE 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 $749k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $779k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 SELF-DEFENSE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding LEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$5k
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 LEAP SELF-DEFENSE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 LEAP SELF-DEFENSE 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 LEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC?
- LEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,527,905 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($498,675). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,527,905 in grants to LEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $498,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAP SELF-DEFENSE 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.
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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 29 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