Leadership Southeast Texas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260516378
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Nederland, TX, USA
- Phone
- 4095548456
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,032
- Expenses
- $49,622
- Assets
- $10,781
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TOM HENRY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TOM HENRY (PRESIDENT)
- NELSON BERNARD (SECRETARY/TR)
- DWAINE AUGUSTINE (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Leadership southeast Texas is an educational program designed to identify leaders of southeast Texas, and to motivate them to exercise their position as regional and community leaders. To accomplish that purpose, the organization has the following objectives. 1. To promote better understanding of the southeast Texas community, including opportunities and strengths created by acting as a region regarding issues of mutual interest and concern; 2. To identify and to study regional issues significant to the development of southeast Texas as a community, such as economic development, crime prevention, education, the environment and other issues that affect southeast Texas; 3. To act as a forum for the discussion of issues on a regional basis and to promote and encourage the initiation of innovative regional approaches to those issues; 4. To provide an opportunity for leaders in the various counties and communities in the nine-county region to meet and work in an organized format, and to cre
What it reported doing in 2024
For the fye 7/31/25, leadership southeast Texas identified individuals as community and regional leaders. The objective of this program service and leadership southeast Texas is to allow regional and community leaders to receive information about current and future developments in the region. Leadership southeast Texas desires for these leaders to take their knowledge and influence to promote and develop the southeast Texas region. These individuals attended educational sessions on 1.) orientation; 2.) rediscover southeast Texas; 3.) youth leadership; 4.) multigenerational workforce; 5.) simulated society; 6.) making an impact. Each session had a statewide, regional, and local expert in the respective topics give presentations on the current situations and future developments and trends on each issue. Each identified leader participated in the discussion by question and answer dialogue as well as problem solving exercises. The class members also work together to develop and implement a leadership service project. This program also allows these leaders to create networking relationships that will allow them to work together for the development and promotion of southeast Texas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 0
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; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 17; 17th 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: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.5% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 22 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.