Leaven Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 611809501
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Sarasota, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9418075977
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,000
- Expenses
- $101,221
- Assets
- $39,976
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CATHY LAYTON (President)
People named in this filing
- CATHY LAYTON (President)
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
College preparation and mentoring for low-income high school students.funds used to pay for expenses necessary to prepare our students to compete for and obtain scholarships
What it reported doing in 2025
College preparation and mentoring for low-income high school students.funds used to pay for expenses necessary to prepare our students to compete for and obtain scholarships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 84.6%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -35%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 27; 27th 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: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 84.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $86K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.