Kosciusko Leadership Academy Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 621433316
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Warsaw, IN, USA
- Phone
- 5742676144
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,788
- Expenses
- $19,146
- Assets
- $17,313
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFF FAWCETT (President)
- TOM TILL (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- JEFF FAWCETT (President)
- TOM TILL (Vice President)
- ALICE HITCHCOCK (Secretary/Treas)
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
Develop future community leaders
What it reported doing in 2025
Graduation banquet dinner:25+ participants for the year were honored for their completion of the program. Attendees included community leaders with a keynote speaker.the academy consists of a kick-off day with a bus tour of kosciusko county and stops at local businesses. There are 14+/- classes that are hosted by local businesses where guest speakers teach the participants about various topics and how they effect our community. Topics include agri-business, economics, local government, law-enforcement, judicial system, orthopedic industry, not-for-profits, etc. Participants form groups and work on white-paper projects throughout the school year that address a community impact project. The white-papers are presented at a venue open to alumni and the public. The class year concludes with a graduation banquet for participnats and alumni. The class year runs from august through april of the following year. Each year typically has 25+/- participants. Participants consist of a wide variety of professionals including business owners, managers, law-enforcement/emt's, attorneys, accountants, and others. All expenses are for the aforementioned class activities. The board is volunteer and the only individual compensation is paid to the moderator as they spend a considerable amount of time organizing, scheduling, and leading each of the classes. Membership income is paid by the organization that sponsors each participant.
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
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -29.5%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.