Torch Leadership Academy Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844219957
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Haddon Twp, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 6093006397
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $63,192
- Expenses
- $57,656
- Assets
- $22,430
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bryan O'Donnell (President)
- Sarah Stefanelli (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Bryan O'Donnell (President)
- Sarah Stefanelli (Vice President)
- Meg Gallagher (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
To develop and empower high school student leaders through meaningful connections, experiential learning, and transformative leadership development opportunities that promote personal growth, ethical leadership, community engagement, and long-term positive impact.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program Service 1: Summer Leadership Academy - Torch Leadership Academy operated its flagship summer leadership program for high school students, providing a multi-day residential leadership experience focused on self-awareness, communication, relationship-building, ethical leadership, goal setting, service, and community impact. In 2025, the organization served approximately 120 students from approximately 60 schools with the support of approximately 60 volunteer staff and facilitators. Programming included large-group workshops, small-group reflection, peer-led team activities, community-building experiences, leadership exercises, and exposure to nonprofit and civic engagement opportunities. The program is designed to help young people strengthen confidence, leadership skills, and sense of purpose, while building a diverse cross-school network of peers and mentors. Long term, the program seeks to develop ethical, inclusive, and community-minded leaders who create positive impact in their schools and communities. The organization also provided financial assistance and other support intended to reduce barriers to participation for students with financial need.
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: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.2%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 90.1%; rating input score 90
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: 8.8%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.2% of revenue deployed · 90.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.