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THE JOHN MCLENDON LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOUNDATION

THE JOHN MCLENDON LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($110,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.2M
Revenue FY2025
4
Funders on record
$210k
Grants received
$975k
Net assets
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

Against its field

THE JOHN MCLENDON LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($201k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 182 ($2.5M) Expenses 780 ($1.6M) Net assets 178 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 99 ($1.3M) Expenses 888 ($1.8M) Net assets 130 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 107 ($1.5M) Expenses 957 ($1.9M) Net assets 94 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 136 ($1.9M) Expenses 933 ($1.9M) Net assets 94 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 85 ($1.2M) Expenses 653 ($1.3M) Net assets 83 ($975k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (85)Expenses (653)Net assets (83)Peer revenue range

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of THE JOHN MCLENDON LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.2M
20
$925k
21
$432k
22
$458k
23
$13k
24
$144k
25
3.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $17k → $118k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)68% 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: $100k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Collegiate Athletic Association). These are real filings, and they are not money THE JOHN MCLENDON LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of THE JOHN MCLENDON LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOUNDATION’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

THE JOHN MCLENDON LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 THE JOHN MCLENDON LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOUNDATION.

53%
largest funder
92%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 42%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.

Where its funders are

68% of THE JOHN MCLENDON LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOUNDATION'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 $67k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 2 states.

MO
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

22
23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $143k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE JOHN MCLENDON LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE JOHN MCLENDON LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: 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 THE JOHN MCLENDON LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOUNDATION?
THE JOHN MCLENDON LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($110,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE JOHN MCLENDON LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $209,500 in grants to THE JOHN MCLENDON LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE JOHN MCLENDON LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE JOHN MCLENDON LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing