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THE LIGER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA LIGER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION
THE LIGER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA LIGER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,209 to it, the largest being THE MCLAIN FOUNDATION (US) ($180,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $104k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $244k
- Net assets
- $-1250604
What The Liger Charitable Foundation Dba Liger Leadership Academy Foundation does
Mission
Creating a brighter future by realizing the potential of a promising child. The liger charitable foundation supports education of promising youth of today to develop socially conscious, entrepreneurial leaders of tomorrow. Our students are catalysts for effective change in their local, national and international communities. As global economic inequality and wealth disparity continue to grow, liger recognizes the critical need to identify and develop these future leaders. We believe that a meaningful investment in the right few will change the lives of many.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The liger charitable foundation's primary project is the liger leadership academy (lla) in phnom penh, cambodia. In 2024-25 lla partnered with the american university of phnom penh to provide full residential and educational scholarships to 60 students. As part of these scholarships, students received a comprehensive, internationally competitive education with a focus on innovative leadership, stem, and entrepreneurship, as well as room and board, clothing, health care and insurance, vaccinations, transportation and school supplies. Additionally, the liger charitable foundation provided loans to six lla alumni for university tuition, fees, room, board, education supplies, transportation and other general living expenses.students were taught essential subject classes and project based learning modules called explorations. Many of these hands-on, interdisciplinary projects were aimed at problem-solving and creating positive change in cambodia and required students to interact with local communities. Students took trips off-campus for research, community surveying, project implementation and networking; in addition, students traveled for international stem competitions. Students are…
$284,601 spentof which $12,050 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $284,601.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.4M to $3.3M (−25%).
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.
84% of THE LIGER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA LIGER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Trevor Gile
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $39k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 THE LIGER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA LIGER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY 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 LIGER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA LIGER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 78% — 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
THE LIGER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA LIGER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE LIGER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA LIGER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE LIGER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA LIGER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Tlf Holdings Co Limited · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LIGER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA LIGER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION?
- THE LIGER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA LIGER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,209 to it, the largest being THE MCLAIN FOUNDATION (US) ($180,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LIGER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA LIGER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $244,209 in grants to THE LIGER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA LIGER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LIGER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA LIGER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION?
- THE MCLAIN FOUNDATION (US) is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LIGER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA LIGER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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