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LEADERS IN FURTHERING EDUCATION INC

EIN 58-2087274 LANTANA, FL

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Revenue 2024
$1,298,436
Expenses 2024
$1,414,161

Program services were 71.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T50Z
Classification
1000
Street
1720 S OCEAN BLVD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

LEADER'S IN FURTHERING EDUCATION, INC. GIVES LIFE TO THOSE WHO ARE DISADVANTAGED, MARGINALIZED OR FORGOTTEN BECAUSE OF DISABILITIES, SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS, NEGLECT, ABUSE & OTHER BARRIERS. OUR MISSION IS ACCOMPLISHED BY RAISING FUNDS TO CONTRIBUTE TO OTHER 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONS WITH PROGRAMS WHICH SUPPORT THAT MISSION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

LEADERS IN FURTHERING EDUCATION, INC. GIVES LIFE TO THOSE WHO ARE DISADVANTAGED, MARGINALIZED OR FORGOTTEN BECAUSE OF DISABILITIES, SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS, NEGLECT, ABUSE & OTHER BARRIERS. OUR MISSION IS ACCOMPLISHED BY RAISING FUNDS TO CONTRIBUTE TO OTHER 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONS WITH PROGRAMS WHICH SUPPORT THAT MISSION.

  • FUNDS WERE DONATED TO 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONS: AMERICAN HUMANE (FOUNDED IN 1877) WHICH IS COMMITTED TO THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND ANIMALS FROM CRUELTY, ABUSE AND NEGLECT, AND TO SERVE AS THEIR VOICE; THE PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK WHICH DISTRIBUTES FOOD TO OVER 200 NON-PROFIT AGENCIES IN PALM BEACH COUNTY WHICH DISTRIBUTE FOOD TO OVER 194,OOO PALM BEACH COUNTY RESIDENTS IN NEED A YEAR.

    Expenses $1,014,700 · Grants $1,000,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lois B Pope

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8
  • Elsa Johnson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jayne M Kurzman Esq

    VP/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Walter Schwenk

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Sunny Sessa

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Simone Bonutti

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • John Deese

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Robin R Ganzert

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Marti Latour

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Tova Leidesdorf

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Frank Orenstein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Patrick Park

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Christine E Lynn

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Ari Rifkin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Erica Rizzuto

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,298,436
    Expenses
    $1,414,161
    Contributions
    $1,574,791
    Grants paid
    $1,000,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $948,706
    Expenses
    $1,246,707
    Contributions
    $1,233,599
    Grants paid
    $900,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $973,261
    Expenses
    $1,146,845
    Contributions
    $1,148,279
    Grants paid
    $900,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,881,169
    Expenses
    $673,754
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,739,895
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $122,716
    Expenses
    $806,879
    Assets (EOY)
    $532,480
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,179,390
    Expenses
    $415,418
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,216,643
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $571,386
    Expenses
    $710,499
    Assets (EOY)
    $452,671
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $982,032
    Expenses
    $706,636
    Assets (EOY)
    $591,784
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $479,003
    Expenses
    $668,879
    Assets (EOY)
    $316,388
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $715,602
    Expenses
    $657,897
    Assets (EOY)
    $506,264
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $530,852
    Expenses
    $860,960
    Assets (EOY)
    $446,162
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $955,803
    Expenses
    $648,751
    Assets (EOY)
    $776,270
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $349,024
    Assets (EOY)
    $469,107

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • 2023 DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD TO OVER 200 NON-PROFIT AGENCIES IN PALM BEACH COUNTY

  • 2023 PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND ANIMALS FROM CRUELTY, ABUSE AND NEGLECT, AND TO SERVE AS THEIR VOICE.

  • 2022 DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD TO OVER 145 AGENCIES IN PALM BEACH COUNTY

  • 2022 PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND ANIMALS FROM CRUELTY, ABUSE AND NEGLECT, AND TO SERVE AS THEIR VOICE.

  • 2024 DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD TO OVER 200 NON-PROFIT AGENCIES IN PALM BEACH COUNTY SUPPORT OVER 194,000 RESIDENTS IN NEED EACH YEAR.

  • 2024 PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND ANIMALS FROM CRUELTY, ABUSE AND NEGLECT, AND TO SERVE AS THEIR VOICE.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.