Dallas Leadership Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752583815
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2147775520
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Leadership Development
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,425,305
- Expenses
- $3,031,627
- Assets
- $11,688,920
- Liabilities
- $2,114,319
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WIL MCCALL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- WIL MCCALL (PRESIDENT): $145,367 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mission is to unlock leadership in challenged communities so that families, no matter their neighborhood, can thrive.
What it reported doing in 2024
Treasures of hope: treasures of hope is an annual christmas store held for families in need. Dlf serves over 20 churches, community and faith-based organizations that refer individuals to shop with dignity for merchandise at 75% off the retail value. In the years ended december 31, 2024 and 2023, the number of people dlf served through its treasures of hope christmas store was 703 and 366, respectively. Transform dallas: dlf partners with multiple local churches to put on transform dallas in which hundreds of volunteers are recruited to serve in various community projects such as house paintings, landscaping, neighborhood clean-up, crime and safety items, community-building block parties, and much more. In the years ended december 31, 2024 and 2023, dlf served 1,105 and 1,425 people, respectively, expanding service opportunities from an annual one-day event to multiple days of service. Dlf works: dlf-works is an integrated workforce development program that teaches hard to reach marginalized individuals skills to earn a living wage. Program participants receive life-skills training, hands-on workplace training, and job placement services that help participants become stable, productive members of their communities. Dlf uses a relational approach to help hard- to-place participants increase their employability in a competitive workplace. In the years ended december 31, 2024 and 2023, the total number of dlf-works participants served was 311 and 276, respectively.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 80
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.7%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 59.2%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.86; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 36.7% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 15 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $145K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.