Vanguard Leadership Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881898207
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Duluth, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4044901659
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $147,587
- Expenses
- $158,190
- Assets
- $13,903
- Liabilities
- $9,795
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Hilliard V Castilla (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Hilliard V Castilla (CEO)
- Gino Brogdon Sr (Trustee)
- Glen D Spencer Jr (Trustee)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We empower underserved and overlooked high school students by equipping and inspiring them to reach their full potential.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Vanguard Leadership Academy Summer Leadership Intensive is an immersive program that transforms high school students into confi dent, capable leaders. Rooted in four foundational pillars; holistic education, increasing awareness, instilling confi dence, and fostering community, this program equips students with both the mindset and skillset to succeed in every area of life. Over the course of the intensive, students participate in a wide range of interactive experiences, including: ? Leadership Development ? Exploring leadership styles and discovering their unique superpowers as leaders ? Practicing professional etiquette and networking skills to prepare for real-world opportunities ? Building emotional intelligence and learning to navigate relationships with empathy and awareness ? Strengthening resilience and focus through mindfulness practices ? Personal Growth & Teamwork ? Collaborative team projects that challenge students to apply leadership principles in real-world problem-solving ? Small group mentoring with professionals, community leaders, and VLA alumni who model leadership in action ? Guided sessions to set goals, increase self-awareness, and build confi dence ? Literacy Initiatives ? An interactive, hands-on Financial Literacy Store, where students learn the principles of money management, budgeting, and responsible decision-making through engaging real-life scenarios ? A daily Word of the Day video series, introducing new vocabulary with synonyms and antonyms through a Word Multiplier system that expands students vocabulary quickly and effectively over the course of just a few weeks
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.5%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 80.7%; rating input score 81
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: -7.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.7; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 125.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 103.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -56.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.5% of revenue deployed · 80.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $128K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.