Skip to content
Nonprofiteer
← All organizations

BANISTERS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

EIN 51-0666677 OMAHA, NE

Browse the largest nonprofits in Nebraska

Revenue 2025
$1,148,652
Expenses 2025
$1,428,116

Program services were 68.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50
Classification
1000
Street
4913 DODGE ST

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

BLA is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that strengthens youth and their families with empowerment, enrichment, and extended academic success. Through leadership training using the 12 pillars of leadership and the level of leadership support program, we provide youth and their families with a safe and positive environment for youth to become leaders

Activities or mission (Part I)

Banister Leadership Academy works with yourht in the coommunity to develop their leadership skills to allow them to transition into healthy adults with programs and services that meet the needs of students and families

  • BLAs primary goals are to strengthen and empower yourth through leadership development programs. Banisters works with families, providing parenting classes for financial literacy, goal setting, free parent child engagement activities, and resources referrals to help with unmet needs Blas youth and family program include Leadership in Action, Night Life Leadership in a Fun Environment, Goal Setters, Mentoring, Middle School Preparedness Leadership Circle, Juvenile Justice Family Navigator Program, Health Kids Movement, Sister Circles and Family University.

    Expenses $978,174

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.

  • Brian Timmerman

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gale Christenson

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Engelbert

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Todd Hlavaty

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Akile Banister

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    60

  • Zachary Petersen

    BOARD CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Aaron Hill

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Corinne Safford

    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
    $1,148,652
    Expenses
    $1,428,116
    Contributions
    $1,138,570
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,426,827
    Expenses
    $1,241,704
    Contributions
    $1,406,436
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,080,027
    Expenses
    $1,051,216
    Contributions
    $1,080,027
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,147,122
    Expenses
    $1,086,312
    Contributions
    $1,147,122
    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
    $1,029,760
    Expenses
    $972,096
    Assets (EOY)
    $360,601

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $707,501
    Expenses
    $630,748
    Assets (EOY)
    $287,381

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $427,125
    Expenses
    $467,793
    Assets (EOY)
    $115,209

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $362,036
    Expenses
    $270,221
    Assets (EOY)
    $140,314

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $147,587
    Expenses
    $122,658
    Assets (EOY)
    $48,116

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $174,105
    Expenses
    $193,195
    Assets (EOY)
    $70,477

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2012

Tax period
1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012
Principal officer
Akile Banister
Mailing address
PO BOX 31512OMAHA NE 68131

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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 11 November 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 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.