Leading Edge Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 631272216
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Birmingham, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2058624852
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $135,726
- Expenses
- $132,158
- Assets
- $5,114
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ashley Gilbert (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Ashley Gilbert (Executive Director)
- Willie Chriesman (Board Member)
- Ellen Dossett (Board Chair)
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 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Leadership program dedicated to providing equitable leadership training to college women in the state of Alabama. The mission of The Leading Edge Institute is to "change the face of leadership in Alabama" in order to move our state toward a more equitable and prosperous future. Leading Edge participants experience a nine-month leadership training program allowing them to develope their leadership skills, expose them to critical issues facing the state of Alabama, and attempting to inspire them to stay in our state of Alabama, and attempting to inspire them to stay in our state to make a difference on those issues about which they feel most passionate.
What it reported doing in 2014
Leading Edge is a leadership development program for college women in the state of Alabama. Students begin their experience in a week-long retreat environment learning about themselves as leaders, foundational leadership theories, and the specific issues facing Alabama. The program begins at Judson College with trips to Montgomery, Selma, Greensboro and tourning Auburn Rural Studios. After the week intensive, students go back to their colleges and move into an experiential learning program facilitated using an online program, Moodle. The learning is focused in three core areas: Advocacy, Mentoring, and Community Projects with projects resulting in impact of service statewide.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.4%; rating input score 97
- 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: 2.6%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -37.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $132K 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 2010 to 2014
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.