Leadership Lessons from Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834098642
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3124049667
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,101
- Expenses
- $11,288
- Assets
- $182,355
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIM BYAS SR PHD (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
People named in this filing
- JON ROSS PHD (DIRECTOR)
- GYASI C CHISLEY (DIRECTOR)
- DAWN GAY (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
Leadership lessons from, inc., advances ethical leadership principles and practices that advance social justice through research, education, and publications; and provides financial assistance to individuals interested in advancing these principles and practices. Objectives for leadership lessons from, inc., includes the following: a. Conduct research focused on ethical leadership, social justice, and related theories and practices. B. Disseminate through various channels, such as publications, web-based venues, lectures, conferences, and seminars research findings about ethical leadership that advances social justice.c. Educate emerging leaders and the general public about ethical leadership practices, principles, and models that help to advance social justice.d. Provide scholarships to researchers, students, and others that support research and education related to ethical leadership and social justice.
What it reported doing in 2025
Scholarships- provide scholarships to researchers, students, and others that support research and education related to ethical leadership and social justice.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 52% for direct work, and 48% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.4%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 36.9%; rating input score 37
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.9%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 16.15; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 33.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 29.4% of revenue deployed · 36.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.