Leadership Trussville Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
881627263
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Trussville, AL, USA
Phone
2057101918
Rating
52
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Leadership Development

Reported finances

Revenue
$95,139
Expenses
$83,774
Assets
$90,056
Liabilities
$1,000

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DR KRISTI BRADFORD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • MICHAEL BRYMER (CHAIR)
  • ERNIE TY TYRELL WILLIAMS (VICE-CHAIR)
  • JASON DANIEL (TREASURER)

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 trussville is a non-political, non-governmental, independent nonprofit organized to encourage and educate an annual class of qualified and highly motivated individuals who want to strengthen their leadership skills, deepen their sense of civic involvement, and be more involved with ideas and initiatives to better the community while learning first-hand about the issues and needs in trussville.

What it reported doing in 2025

Opening retreat- class members, who are selected from anapplication process, attend an overnight retreat thatorients them to the year of development ahead. Apersonality test is administered during the retreat and a speakerexplains and identifies each leadership style and prudent ways tointeract with those of differing leadership styles, whether inprofessional or personal settings. The resulting personality stylesare paramount in assigning class participants to project groups ofdiverse perspectives for future work throughout the class year. Inaddition, the opening retreat provides an opportunity for the city'smayor to address class members and share his 2040 plan for the city.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

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: 27
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 26.2%; rating input score 26
  • Program expense ratio: 29.1%; rating input score 29

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.9%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 48.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 49.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 26.2% of revenue deployed · 29.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $24K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.