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The New York State FFA Leadership Traini

The New York State FFA Leadership Traini (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,066 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($144,704). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$333k
Net assets
$5.5M
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What The New York State FFA Leadership Traini does

Mission

To support and assist in the development of our greatest resource...young people.To provide businesses, associations, other foundations and individuals the opportunity to support New York FFA.To recognize and award New York FFA members for their achievements in leadership, career development, and agricultural knowledge.To expand interest and enrollment in agree-science courses and FFA Chapters throughout New York.To educate the general population of New York about the diversity of New York State agriculture and its necessary role in everyday life.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To develope students potential for leadership, personal growth and career success by providing positive learning experience with educational programing

    $1,177,413 spent$1,227,739 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,177,413.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 114 ($1.3M) Expenses 106 ($1.2M) Net assets 108 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 300 ($3.4M) Expenses 119 ($1.3M) Net assets 256 ($3.6M)2020 Revenue 113 ($1.3M) Expenses 58 ($626k) Net assets 302 ($4.2M)2021 Revenue 109 ($1.2M) Expenses 84 ($908k) Net assets 325 ($4.5M)2022 Revenue 97 ($1.1M) Expenses 106 ($1.2M) Net assets 320 ($4.5M)2023 Revenue 138 ($1.5M) Expenses 107 ($1.2M) Net assets 347 ($4.8M)2024 Revenue 147 ($1.7M) Expenses 122 ($1.3M) Net assets 370 ($5.2M)2025 Revenue 165 ($1.8M) Expenses 136 ($1.5M) Net assets 396 ($5.5M)
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Revenue (165)Expenses (136)Net assets (396)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $2.1M to $4.6M (+118%).

$2.0M
$2.1M
$4.6M
$5.4M
$5.7M
$5.5M
$5.9M
$6.2M
$7.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 47% · 2020 34% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

30% of The New York State FFA Leadership Traini’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,035 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$32k
’17
$115k
’18
$2.1M
’19
$636k
’20
$318k
’21
−$70k
’22
$383k
’23
$323k
’24
$364k
’25
12
months of
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

Todd Lighthall

Executive Director

Board chair

Jon Clayson

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131414554455
Joined·+1+1+0+0+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·01902000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $41k → $9k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 New York State FFA Leadership Traini’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 New York State FFA Leadership Traini leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

87% 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 New York State FFA Leadership Traini.

43%
largest funder
97%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 100% · 2022 90% · 2023 93% — 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

87% of The New York State FFA Leadership Traini'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 $42k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from New York funders.

NY
NC

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

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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $291k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The New York State FFA Leadership Traini runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · top quartile
Months of reserve12.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding The New York State FFA Leadership Traini receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $139k on record.

Federal$139k
grants $0contracts $139k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Defense$139k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 14%Fundraising 6%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds The New York State FFA Leadership Traini?
The New York State FFA Leadership Traini (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,066 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($144,704). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does The New York State FFA Leadership Traini have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $333,066 in grants to The New York State FFA Leadership Traini, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The New York State FFA Leadership Traini?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $144,704 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The New York State FFA Leadership Traini find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 7 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