Leading for Change Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
461797595
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Phone
6022530119
Rating
95
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Leadership Development

Reported finances

Revenue
$131,654
Expenses
$173,638
Assets
$355,321
Liabilities
$4,658

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

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Beth Meyer (President & CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Beth Meyer (President & CEO)
  • Allison Ewers (Chair)
  • Nate Rhoton (Vice 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

See Schedule O

What it reported doing in 2025

The LFC non partisan Candidate Training provides three weekend trainings to provide individuals with information on what it takes to run for office or serve on a campaign team. Topics covered include fundraising, messaging, recruiting volunteers and components of a campaign plan. There were two trainings in 2025 for 20 participants,10 in each training class.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 62% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 97
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 92.3%; rating input score 92

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -31.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.05; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 59.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $160K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.