Global Leaders Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
454279561
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Fort Collins, CO, USA
Phone
9702311125
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$359,964
Expenses
$398,792
Assets
$74,710
Liabilities
$1,782

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

22 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOSEPH FONTANA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • CASEY BURGAT (BOARD PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • KYLA WORTH (OPERATIONS DIRECTOR): $74,690 total reported compensation
  • ARYANA TUCKER (PROGRAM ASSISTANT): $47,629 total reported compensation
  • JOSEPH FONTANA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $26,875 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Global Leaders educates youth to promote social environmental justice through education service. GL educates youth from diverse backgrounds to become active leaders through education service in the US and abroad. GL has invested in developing extraordinary youth leaders by challenging them to collaboratively confront complex global issues.

What it reported doing in 2025

A total of 51 students spend 12 days in Guatemala over a period of 2 months as a culmination to their 9 month leadership program. They stay with host families, sharing traditions, culture and language. Students also spend time on 4 service projects that substantially benefit the community. These projects include building clean and efficient cookstoves, reforestation, assisting at a coffee cooperative, and volunteering at a local hospital and orphanage.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.3%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -10.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 40.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89.3% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $320K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 22 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 23 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.