Legacy Leadership Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461745712
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2015
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015
- Location
- Hudson Oaks, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8176310041
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Leadership Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $237,503
- Expenses
- $215,874
- Assets
- $70,758
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LESLIE CLARK (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LESLIE CLARK (PRESIDENT): $40,290 total reported compensation
- AMBER THOMAS (VICE PRESIDE): $40,290 total reported compensation
- JENNY GARZA (SECRETARY): $40,290 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At Legacy Leadership Academy, we cultivate and train the next generation of leaders - visionaries, truth-tellers, and changemakers - equipping them with the tools to rise, lead, and serve with purpose.
What it reported doing in 2015
Our goal is to provide individualized learning opportunities for students k-12, through alternative educational methods. We serve children and families who struggle to find their place in the traditional education. Enrollment is 45 students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 14
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.5%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 73.1%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.1%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 56%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 36.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 66.5% of revenue deployed · 73.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $158K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2014 to 2015
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.