Adaptive Leadership Network
Legal name: Adaptive Leadership Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813784911
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Cambridge, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7205083657
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $168,359
- Expenses
- $154,215
- Assets
- $75,878
- Liabilities
- $7,361
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BART ALEXANDER (BOARD CHAIR & PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BART ALEXANDER (BOARD CHAIR & PRESIDENT)
- MEGAN KENNEDY (CLERK & BOARD M)
- JOHN PIERRE POWELL (TREASURER & BOARD M)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To expand the knowledge and practice of Adaptive Leadership and to sustain our members to mobilize ourselves – and others – as creative forces for change.
What it reported doing in 2025
Educational Publications and Resources: Production of monthly electronic educational newsletter distributed to more than 4000 members and contacts worldwide. Featured topics include shared original articles and leadership reflections, research and emerging ideas, practical resources, educational program recordings and summaries, book recommendation, and examples of adaptive leadership in practice. Through these publications, the Organization expanded access to adaptive leadership knowledge and connected readers with ongoing educational opportunities and developments in the field.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -37.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.7% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.