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GREAT LAKES POLITICAL ACADEMY LEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND DEVELOPME

EIN 84-2895367 DEXTER, MI

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Revenue 2025
$797,572
Expenses 2025
$805,985

Program services were 0.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
W70
Classification
3000
Street
7444 DEXTER ANN ARBOR RD STE B1

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).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

The Great Lakes Political Academy since its incubation in 2013 has trained more than 250 fellows in this intensive program. GLPA runs general programs and specialization programs that are highly regarded across the state of Michigan. Our general program covers all campaign topics and is designed to prepare experienced rising campaign leaders to manage competitive campaigns. Our specialization program covers specific campaign areas and is designed to prepare less-experienced rising campaign leaders to lead campaign departments.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Promote community welfare by providing education and training in Michigan by recruiting training and empowering progressive political leaders.

  • GLPA-LEADs main project is to train future political leaders both for staffing and to run for office.

    Expenses $810,337 · Grants $778,944

  • The Lead for Justice program trains lawyers who are interested in running for judge.

    Expenses $1,154

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Stephen Pontoni

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jaime Forbes

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Katie Kelly

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $797,572
    Expenses
    $805,985
    Contributions
    $797,572
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $541,158
    Expenses
    $617,412
    Contributions
    $541,158
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $737,500
    Expenses
    $476,884
    Contributions
    $737,500
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $560,325
    Expenses
    $363,058
    Contributions
    $560,325
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $242,376
    Expenses
    $129,818
    Assets (EOY)
    $142,111

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.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2022, reinstated 15 May 2022.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.