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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by LEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$56,365,930
Total expenses
$53,539,861
Contributions and grants received
$51,183,102
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$97,416
Investment income
$747,103
Other revenue
$4,338,309
Total assets, end of year
$43,880,415
Total liabilities, end of year
$9,646,258
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$34,234,157
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$46,841,090
Management and general expenses
$6,379,494
Fundraising expenses
$319,277
Program service expenses (Part III)
$46,841,090

Program services were 87.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $49,976,199

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,206,903

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $25,000

  • 2a · Program service revenue: OTHER REVENUE

    total $61,240 · related or exempt $61,240

  • 2b · Program service revenue: SCHOOL INCOME

    total $36,176 · related or exempt $36,176

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $972,872 · excluded $972,872

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    other assets $225,769

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    other assets -$225,769

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total -$225,769 · related or exempt -$225,769

  • 11a · Other revenue: EMPLOYEE RETENTION CREDIT

    total $4,338,309 · related or exempt $4,338,309

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $4,338,309

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $510,430 · program services $461,665 · management and general $45,521 · fundraising $3,244

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $23,322,789 · program services $21,094,599 · management and general $2,079,952 · fundraising $148,238

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $1,623,133 · program services $1,468,064 · management and general $144,753 · fundraising $10,316

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $7,464,278 · program services $6,751,164 · management and general $665,672 · fundraising $47,442

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $2,056,914 · program services $1,860,402 · management and general $183,438 · fundraising $13,074

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $3,161,110 · program services $1,620,855 · management and general $1,540,255

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $237,045 · program services $235,245 · management and general $1,800

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $880,438 · program services $843,877 · management and general $36,561

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $4,171,635 · program services $4,100,658 · management and general $70,977

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $1,729,350 · program services $1,434,105 · management and general $295,245

  • 24a · Other expenses: TRANSPORTATION

    total $3,363,232 · program services $3,363,096 · management and general $136

  • 24b · Other expenses: INSTRUCTIONAL

    total $2,452,450 · program services $2,156,488 · management and general $281,217 · fundraising $14,745

  • 24c · Other expenses: ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPM

    total $1,279,828 · program services $769,468 · management and general $510,360

  • 24d · Other expenses: ATHLETIC COST

    total $589,565 · program services $589,565

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $697,664 · program services $91,839 · management and general $523,607 · fundraising $82,218

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $951 · end of year $1,651

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $21,593,358 · end of year $22,529,800

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $5,005,337 · end of year $9,171,912

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $312,369 · end of year $477,274

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $18,192,520

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $9,619,342

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $8,444,307 · end of year $8,573,178

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $3,659,640 · end of year $3,126,600

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $3,664,683 · end of year $6,147,714

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $3,943,190 · end of year $3,498,544

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $31,148,089 · end of year $34,234,157

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $260,000 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

LEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS EXISTS TO PREPARE ALL OUR STUDENTS WITH THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS TO SUCCEED IN COLLEGE AND IN LIFE.

  • LEAD SERVED APPROXIMATELY 2,570 STUDENTS ON FOUR DIFFERENT CAMPUSES.

    Expenses $46,841,090 · Revenue $4,209,956

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Alex Ryerson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Carter Pain

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • David Love

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dr Bryan Fisher

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Earl Lattimore

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jamese Lercius

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jerome Oglesby

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jim Vesterman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jimmy Patton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jonathan Dyke

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Linda Pannock

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mike Honious

    CHARIMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Rob Keller

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Valerie Hayes Molette

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dwanye H Tucker

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $216,179
    From this org
    $205,769
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,410
    Hours/week
    80

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $205,769
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,410
    Filer's total
    $216,179
  • Adrienne Ulsted

    CHIEF SO

    Total calculated
    $176,862
    From this org
    $152,873
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,989
    Hours/week
    80

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $152,873
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,172
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,817
    Filer's total
    $176,862
  • La Voe Mulgrew

    HS HEAD OF SCHOOL

    Total calculated
    $170,757
    From this org
    $151,788
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,969
    Hours/week
    80

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,788
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,559
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,410
    Filer's total
    $170,757
  • Eloise Alexis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $149,135
    From this org
    $138,709
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,426
    Hours/week
    80
  • Nicolas Frank

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $145,183
    From this org
    $136,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,983
    Hours/week
    80
  • Ricki Allen Gibbs

    ES HEAD OF SCHOOL

    Total calculated
    $149,428
    From this org
    $139,423
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,005
    Hours/week
    80
  • Tait Danhausen

    MS HEAD OF SCHOOL

    Total calculated
    $168,515
    From this org
    $149,404
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,111
    Hours/week
    80

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $149,404
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,606
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,505
    Filer's total
    $168,515
  • Tony Ramall Majors

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $144,784
    From this org
    $135,581
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,203
    Hours/week
    80

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Disregarded entities

Part I: entities that legally are the filer and file no return of their own.

  • LEAD ACADEMY NOPROFIT LLC

    EDUCATION · TN

    Directly controlled by LEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC

  • CAMERON COLLEGE PREP NONPROFIT LLC

    EDUCATION · TN

    Directly controlled by LEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC

  • BRICK CHURCH COLLEGE PREP LLC

    EDUCATION · TN

    Directly controlled by LEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC

  • LEAD PREP SOUTHEAST LLC

    EDUCATION · TN

    Directly controlled by LEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC

  • NEELY'S BEND COLLEGE PREP NONPROFIT LLC

    EDUCATION · TN

    Directly controlled by LEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC

  • LEAD REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS NONPROFIT LLC

    EDUCATION · TN

    Directly controlled by LEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
30 April 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202501209349302600

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