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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by Growing Leaders Inc.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,986,368
Total expenses
$2,304,437
Contributions and grants received
$318,397
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$1,300,741
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$367,230
Total assets, end of year
$1,210,569
Total liabilities, end of year
$504,561
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$706,008
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,593,983
Management and general expenses
$471,743
Fundraising expenses
$238,711
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,593,983

Program services were 69.2% 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.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $318,397

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Licensing Fee Income

    total $843,850 · related or exempt $843,850

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Speaker Honorarium

    total $348,300 · related or exempt $348,300

  • 2c · Program service revenue: Training Event Registr

    total $108,591 · related or exempt $108,591

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $18,658 · excluded $18,658

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $227,331

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $80,335

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $146,996 · related or exempt $146,996

  • 11a · Other revenue: Other Income Income

    total $115,338 · related or exempt $115,338

  • 11b · Other revenue: Billable Expense Incom

    total $48,796 · related or exempt $48,796

  • 11c · Other revenue: Shipping Income

    total $37,442 · related or exempt $37,442

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $201,576

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $149,344 · program services $126,943 · management and general $7,467 · fundraising $14,934

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $800,863 · program services $600,717 · management and general $97,003 · fundraising $103,143

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $60,200 · program services $45,929 · management and general $6,741 · fundraising $7,530

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $53,003 · program services $40,438 · management and general $5,935 · fundraising $6,630

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $14,790 · management and general $14,790

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $210,846 · program services $151,006 · management and general $58,759 · fundraising $1,081

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $13,097 · program services $13,097

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $20,407 · program services $14,098 · management and general $2,878 · fundraising $3,431

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $97,678 · program services $24,690 · management and general $72,988

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $271,472 · program services $207,092 · management and general $30,422 · fundraising $33,958

  • 17 · Travel

    total $119,910 · program services $119,910

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $195,470 · program services $129,083 · management and general $45,223 · fundraising $21,164

  • 24a · Other expenses: Bad Debt Expense

    total $81,398 · management and general $81,398

  • 24b · Other expenses: Fulfillment Fees

    total $44,619 · program services $40,157 · management and general $4,462

  • 24c · Other expenses: Fundraising - Event Cos

    total $42,137 · fundraising $42,137

  • 24d · Other expenses: Registration and Sponso

    total $25,851 · program services $25,851

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $103,352 · program services $54,972 · management and general $43,677 · fundraising $4,703

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $546,460 · end of year $457,271

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $515,081 · end of year $191,227

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $124,936 · end of year $139,716

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $42,837 · end of year $14,482

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

    $255,309

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

    $204,301

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $63,367 · end of year $51,008

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $283,206 · end of year $225,138

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $246,105 · end of year $131,727

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $69,649 · end of year $22,172

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $357,963 · end of year $180,469

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $333,465 · end of year $301,920

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,060,915 · end of year $706,008

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Growing Leaders is a global nonprofit that encourages and equips young adults to take on real-life opportunities and challenges in the classroom, in their careers, and in the community. They do this by partnering with organizations to teach practical life and leadership skills through a research-based process that uses intriguing images, fascinating stories and engaging experiences that are relatable and memorable. The organization's unique understanding of how to engage and connect with the next generation allows them to help sutdents to better prepare themselves for life after graduation to learn that leading others at any level begins with learning how to lead yourself.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Mission of Growing Leaders is to inspire ordinary students to grow into values-oriented leaders

  • Growing Leaders provided 66 training events for approximately 23,394 people across the United States during fiscal year 2024. Most of the events were for adults who teach, coach, or mentor young people and to equip them to better connect with the emerging generation. These training events prepared adults to teach social emotional learning, leadership, and character development: the soft skills needed for student to lead in real life. Some events were offered directly to students to inspire and motivate them to fulfill their potential and take on real life opportunities and challenge. It is estimated that the material and content of these events reached over 5,570 students in fiscal year 2024.

    Expenses $1,593,983 · Revenue $1,649,313

  • Growing Leaders provided digital character, leadership, and soft skills training resources for students from 548 schools, sports teams, and other organizations working with young people. The primary curriculum is called "Habitudes: Images that Form Leadership Habits and Attitudes and it uses the power of images, conversations, experiences to teach important life skills in a way that students today want to learn. The resources are provided in both digital and print formats. It is estimated that the resources were shared with 169,832 students in fiscal year 2024 and taught by 16,223 facilitators. Growing Leaders also released fully updated content for its high school curriculum via our Habitudes Online platform in in effort to stay relevant to today's students.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

  • Bill Dunphy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Morgan Hill

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Randy Hain

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tim Elmore

    Director

    Total calculated
    $317,276
    From this org
    $309,068
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,208
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $309,068
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,208
    Filer's total
    $317,276

  • John Maxwell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • James Blanchard

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Norwood Davis

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sangram Vajre

    Vice-Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Camye Mackey

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dianna Kokoszka

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Collin Sewell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ed Bastian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steve Moore

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Mark Cole

    CEO/Non-voting

    Total calculated
    $150,000
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $150,000
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 1a · Housing allowance or residence for personal use
  • 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
  • 3 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Written employment contract
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
  • 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.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

  • Maxwell Leadership Foundation

    501(c)(3) · In August 2024 Growing Leaders, Inc. merged with Maxwell Leadership Fnd · GA

  • Equip

    501(c)(3) · GA

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
27 February 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202500589349301020

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