Expand Leadership Initiative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 333464661
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9164941099
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Leadership Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $112,263
- Expenses
- $40,897
- Assets
- $71,366
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chelsea Carter (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Chelsea Carter (Executive Director)
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
Expand Leadership Initiative is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to increasing access to personal and professional development for women entrepreneurs. We provide scholarships, host monthly events, and a bi-annual 2-day women's business conference that support women in building impact-driven businesses, expanding their leadership, and creating lasting positive change.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization produces FEMPIRE, a large-scale women's business summit designed to provide education, community, and resources for women entrepreneurs and business owners. The event features expert speakers, panel discussions, networking opportunities, and experiential sessions focused on business growth and leadership development. Scholarships are provided to increase accessibility for women who would not otherwise be able to attend.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.5%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 63.6%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.75; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 42.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.