Education for International Leadership
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 450560929
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Abilene, TX, USA
- Phone
- 3252605288
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,442
- Expenses
- $87,013
- Assets
- $25,741
- Liabilities
- $812
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- ERIK PRESLEY (Chairman/Treas.)
- LOGAN COLE (Secretary)
- JORDAN EATON (Trustee)
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
Leadership International is a Christian nonprofit organization focused on the development and equipping of faith-based leaders through education, mentoring, and curriculum-based training initiatives. The organizations activities emphasize leadership formation and biblical education rather than financial support for external educational programs.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2025, Leadership International participated in several teaching and training initiatives within church communities in Abilene and Fort Worth, Texas. These efforts focused on leadership development and biblical understanding within local congregations.The organization also conducted weekly instructional sessions within a secondary school setting in which biblical history was taught alongside ancient Near Eastern history to provide historical context for students studying the Bible.In addition, Leadership International piloted a curriculum designed to help Christian church leaders better understand the Jewish historical and cultural context of the biblical text. As part of this effort, the organization hosted experiential teaching sessions throughout the year demonstrating the meaning and significance of several Jewish festivals within the biblical narrative.Leadership International also maintained a mentoring initiative serving emerging Christian leaders in Texas and in Mozambique. This program focused on personal leadership formation and the development of strong family and community leadership roles.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.9%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.