Missouri · Nonprofit
Sankofa Leadership Initiative
Sankofa Leadership Initiative (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being THE FRANCIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $33k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $0
What Sankofa Leadership Initiative does
Mission
Sankofa is an inclusive community that provides access to leadership opportunities without the barrier of finances. Scholars of Sankofa are provided a platform to empower their voices through teaching fellow youth students in the martial arts program. We do this by combining martial arts training with social-emotional development suited for youth striving to become the best versions of themselves.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Instructor Training: Provided youth with a low risk opportunity to build leadership skills through teaching martial arts classes. Conducted weekly training sessions to instruct them in teaching techniques and preparation for weekly classes
$9,823 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $9,823.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $32k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Sankofa Leadership Initiative’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
Sankofa Leadership Initiative leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
100% of Sankofa Leadership Initiative's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like Sankofa Leadership Initiative
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sankofa Leadership Initiative: 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 Sankofa Leadership Initiative?
- Sankofa Leadership Initiative (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being THE FRANCIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sankofa Leadership Initiative have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $55,000 in grants to Sankofa Leadership Initiative.
- Who is the largest funder of Sankofa Leadership Initiative?
- THE FRANCIS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sankofa Leadership Initiative find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 2 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