Leadership Montgomery Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 631009269
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Montgomery, AL, USA
- Phone
- 3342622261
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Leadership Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $422,862
- Expenses
- $391,174
- Assets
- $463,651
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHERYL JOHNSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MARTIE MCENERNEY (PAST PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CHERYL JOHNSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $86,057 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To train, educate, and gather community leaders to improve the welfare of the montgomery, Alabama community
What it reported doing in 2024
The candidates selected as future leaders of montgomery use their skills to create a group project designed to directly impact the community and address an identified need. For 2024, the legacy class led impactful projects across the river region, including: developing a bike trail to encourage outdoor activity, furnishing a computer lab and providing school uniforms and tutoring support, promoting youth engagement and positivity through targeted digital media outreach, creating a welcoming indoor social space for children, renovating a teen to work area to include workspace and new computers, and updating a recreational area. For 2024, the torchbearers class applied their leadership skills to service projects that directly addressed community needs. Their efforts included: creating a program for high school juniors and seniors to build leadership skills, explore community issues, appreciate diversity, and commit to service, establishing permanent storywalks in parks across montgomery county to promote childhood literacy, outdoor activity, and family engagement, converting an underused conference room into a hygiene pantry and new office space for a leadership team, revitalizing a garden area, and enhancing the facility's curb appeal by redoing landscaping, repainting the lighthouse, and installing a new center sign at the beacon center.
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 98% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.9%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 93.2%; rating input score 93
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.5%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.9% of revenue deployed · 93.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $365K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $86K · 23 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.