Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SOUTHWEST LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCH
SOUTHWEST LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,489 to it, the largest being Elevate 215 ($27,989). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $119k
What Southwest Leadership Academy Charter Sch does
Mission
To foster the next generation of community leaders by providing a unique, innovative educational program that offers rigorous academics and leadership development to provide hope, excitement and changes life outcomes to elementary and middle school students in southwest philadelphia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operation of a charter school for grades k through 8.
$9,900,720 spent$12,542,828 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,900,720.
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 2017 to 2018, from $3.3M to $13M (+285%).
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: 2019 8% · 2020 8% · 2021 12% · 2022 25% · 2023 26% · 2024 33% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of SOUTHWEST LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Leigh Purnell
CEO
Board chair
William Moore Sr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $28k.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHWEST LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCH’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
SOUTHWEST LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
98% 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 SOUTHWEST LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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
98% of SOUTHWEST LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCH's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
SOUTHWEST LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCH has grown faster than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHWEST LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCH
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHWEST LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCH: 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 SOUTHWEST LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCH?
- SOUTHWEST LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,489 to it, the largest being Elevate 215 ($27,989). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHWEST LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCH have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $28,489 in grants to SOUTHWEST LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCH.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCH?
- Elevate 215 is the largest funder on record, with $27,989 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWEST LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 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