Georgia · Nonprofit
Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc
Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,546,110 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($747,800). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $432k
What Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc does
Mission
The Maxwell Leadership Foundation is pioneering a values-based, evidence-driven, collaborative process of transformation. People around the globe remain frustrated and apathetic by the global leadership deficit. The foremost voice in leadership for over 40 years, Dr. John C. Maxwell, believes countries and communities will be transformed as the hearts of individuals are. The Maxwell Leadership Foundation gives individuals, companies, communities and nations a transformational leadership solution. Our work focuses on the growth of individuals into leaders who value people. These leaders in turn transform their spheres of influence.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
National Transformation: We are currently serving in the countries of Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Paraguay, and Papua New Guinea. Utilizing values-based roundtables from our founder John Maxwell to transform hundreds of thousands of people in these countries. We also unite and inspire some of the most influential leaders to include members of the top 8 streams of influence in each country to launch transformational initiatives for their people.
$5,454,875 spentof which $1,960,142 as grants50% of program spendingIndividual Transformation: We utilize value-based roundtables from our founder John Maxwell to transform hundreds of thousands of people in the community. Change Your World is a program developed out of John Maxwell and Rob Hoskins' book by the same title. The program takes users on a journey through values-based leadership curriculum, with the goal of equipping people as leaders with good values and a heart for intentionally making a difference in their world. iLead is our peer-to-peer values-based, people-centric leadership development content designed specifically for students. Since its launch in 2018, iLead has provided children and youth in 72+ countries with an opportunity to explore the power of their choices, actions and influence to make their world better and brighter.
$3,949,545 spentof which $150,700 as grants$1,077,386 earned by the program36% of program spendingCommunity Transformation: In countries too large for country transformation, we work in communities. Currently, we work primarily in the United States, and know community transformation will soon spread to the rest of the world. The approach is similar to country transformation. We utilize value-based roundtables from our founder John Maxwell to transform hundreds of thousands of people in the community. We also unite and inspire some of the most influential leaders in the community to launch transformational initiatives for their people.
$1,454,264 spentof which $20,000 as grants13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,858,684.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $3.1M (+173%).
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 Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
J Mark Cole
CEO / President / Board Member
Board chair
John Maxwell
Board Chair / Founder
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $10k → $913k.
14 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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: $21M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest EQUIP Leadership Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Maxwell Leadership Foundation 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
Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
90% 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 Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 60% · 2022 41% · 2023 33% — 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
40% of Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 43% 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
89% of Maxwell Leadership Foundation 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 $385k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 363 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Maxwell Leadership Foundation 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 1 related entity
- Equip Leadership Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Maxwell Leadership Foundation 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 Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc?
- Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,546,110 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($747,800). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $3,546,110 in grants to Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $747,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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