LEAD THE WAY FUND INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

P60

Classification

1000

Street

300 GARDEN CITY PLZ STE 149

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Mission and programs · 2024

• RECOVERY, RESILIENCY, EDUCATION, AND TRANSITION PROGRAM: WHEN OUR WOUNDED, ILL OR INJURED RANGERS RETURN FROM COMBAT, THE SEVERITY OF THEIR INJURIES IS OFTEN TO THE DEGREE THAT THEIR DISABILITIES PREVENT THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES FROM BEING ABLE TO FULLY SUPPORT THEMSELVES. THE CARE PROVIDED BY THE GOVERNMENT IS OFTEN LIMITED AND INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT THEIR NEEDS. LTWF PROVIDES ONGOING SUPPORT, FROM THE MOMENT OF INJURY, THROUGH THE SHORT AND LONG-TERM RECOVERY, REHABILITATION, AND TRANSITION PROCESS. STARTING WITH AN IMMEDIATE FINANCIAL GRANT OF $5,000 FOR RANGERS THAT ARE WOUNDED IN ACTION OR DURING TRAINING, AND TO THE FAMILIES OF RANGERS WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED IN ACTION. IF A SPOUSE OR ADDITIONAL FAMILY MEMBERS NEED TO BE AT THE BEDSIDE OF THEIR LOVED ONE, WE ENSURE THAT THE TRAVEL COSTS, ACCOMMODATIONS (INCLUDING EXTENDED STAY), CHILD CARE, AND EXPENSES ARE COVERED SO THERE IS NO ADDED FINANCIAL OR EMOTIONAL STRESS. IF THE RANGER SUFFERS A SETBACK DURING HIS RECOVERY PROCESS THAT REQUIRES ADDITIONAL HOSPITALIZATION AND THERAPIES, LTWF WILL PROVIDE ADDITIONAL GRANTS TO THE FAMILY SO THERE IS NO FINANCIAL SHORTFALL. WITH THE ONGOING CHALLENGE OF SERVICE MEMBERS DEVELOPING POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS, LTWF THROUGH OUR RANGER RESILIENCY PROGRAM, IS COMMITTED TO ENSURING RANGERS RECEIVE ACCESS TO THE BEST MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS AVAILABLE. BY SUPPORTING THE FAMILY UNIT DURING THIS EMOTIONAL JOURNEY, WE HOPE TO ALLEVIATE THE FINANCIAL STRAIN SO OUR RANGERS CAN FOCUS ON GETTING THE INTENSIVE, AND PROPER, TREATMENT THEY NEED.RANGER RESILIENCY SPECIAL PROGRAMS: THE DEDICATED RANGER CHAPLAINS HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CARING FOR THE SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING AND THE RESILIENCY OF THE RANGERS AND THEIR FAMILIES. ARMY RANGER LEAD THE WAY FUND SEES IT AS OUR OBLIGATION TO ASSIST OUR RANGER CHAPLAINS WITH THE ENDURING TASK OF ENHANCING RANGER MORALE AND SUSTAINING FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS. ARMY RANGER LEAD THE WAY FUND PROVIDES ENRICHMENT GRANTS FOR THESE PROGRAMS THAT ARE ESTABLISHED BY CHAPLAIN COMMAND. MARRIAGE RETREATS AND DATE NIGHTS FEATURE RELATIONSHIP TRAINING LED BY RANGER CHAPLAINS AND ALSO OFFER FREE TIME FOR RANGER COUPLES TO CONNECT AND RECHARGE THEIR RELATIONSHIP. SINGLE RANGER RETREATS FEATURE CHAPLAIN-LED TRAINING ON LIFE AND RELATIONSHIP SUCCESS AS WELL AS HIGH-ENERGY ACTIVITIES LIKE MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, SNOW SKIING, WHITE-WATER RAFTING, AND MOUNTAIN BIKING. BIBLE STUDIES: RANGER CHAPLAINS AND THEIR WIVES LEAD BIBLE STUDIES AND OTHER SPIRITUAL-GROWTH EVENTS FOR RANGER COUPLES OR WIVES OF DEPLOYED RANGERS AND OUR LTWF RESOURCES PROVIDE MUCH-NEEDED CHILDCARE FOR THESE EVENTS.FOR OUR RANGERS WHO HAVE SUFFERED SEVERE INJURIES SUCH AS PARALYSIS OR AMPUTATIONS, LTWF PROVIDES THE SUPPORT FOR MODIFIED VEHICLES AND BUILDING AND MODIFYING MORTGAGE-FREE, ACCESSIBLE, AND SMART HOMES. THESE "HOMES THAT HEAL" ARE CUSTOM BUILT TO INCLUDE THE SPECIFIC ADAPTIVE EQUIPMENT NECESSARY TO SUPPORT THE SPECIFIC NEEDS OF EACH RANGER.OUR RANGERS ARE AMONG THE MOST DISCIPLINED AND SKILLED WARRIORS IN THE WORLD AND WE ARE DEDICATED TO HELPING THEM UTILIZE THEIR INGRAINED SKILLS BY EMPOWERING THEM TO THRIVE IN CAREERS AT TOP UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY. WHEN RANGERS MAKE THE DECISION NOT TO RE-ENLIST IN THE REGIMENT AFTER A LONG AND SUCCESSFUL MILITARY CAREER, THE TRANSITION BACK TO CIVILIAN LIFE CAN BE CHALLENGING. THROUGH OUR WARRIOR EDUCATION TRANSITION PROGRAMS SUCH AS OUR COLLEGIATE ACCESS PROGRAM (CAP); GRADUATE ACCESS PROGRAM (GAP); RANGER ACTIVATION AND MENTOR PROGRAM (RAMP); WE ARE COMMITTED TO HELPING OUR RANGERS THROUGH THE REINTEGRATION PROCESS, ENSURING THAT THEY ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS OF A REWARDING AND PROSPEROUS CIVILIAN LIFE. THROUGH LTWF'S CAP/GAP/RAMP PROGRAMS, RANGERS INTERESTED IN SECONDARY EDUCATION HAVE ACCESS TO THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES IN THE COUNTRY AS WELL AS ASSISTANCE WITH TEST PREP, APPLICATION AND ESSAY EDITING, SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIPS AS WELL AS INTERNSHIP AND JOB PROGRAMS.STAYING ACTIVE AND COMPETITIVE IS PARAMOUNT TO THE EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL PRESERVATION OF OUR WOUNDED RANGERS. LTWF PROVIDES SUPPORT FOR OUR RANGERS WHO PARTICIPATE IN THE WARRIOR GAMES (ADAPTIVE SPORTS COMPETITION FOR WOUNDED, ILL, AND INJURED SERVICE MEMBERS). WE WILL ALSO ACCOMMODATE IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBERS SO THEY CAN SEE THEIR LOVED ONES COMPETE.

  Expenses $311,664 · Grants $163,180

• RANGER AND FAMILY HEALTH AND WELLNESS PROGRAMS: WITH CONSECUTIVE DEPLOYMENTS SINCE THE START OF THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM, THE PRESERVATION OF THIS EXTREMELY PRESSURED FORCE IS A NECESSITY. WHEN A RANGER IS DEPLOYED, SO IS HIS FAMILY. THE LONG SEPARATIONS CAN BE CHALLENGING AND STRENUOUS ON THE FAMILY UNIT. FAMILY READINESS GROUPS (FRGS), CONSISTING OF FAMILY MEMBERS AND OTHER VOLUNTEERS ASSOCIATED WITH A PARTICULAR UNIT, ACT AS FIRST RESPONDERS THAT SERVE TO ENHANCE THE WELL-BEING, MORALE, AND ESPRIT DE CORP OF THE UNIT. THROUGH OUR RANGER AND FAMILY HEALTH AND WELLNESS PROGRAM, WE PROVIDE THE FRGS IN THE REGIMENT WITH GRANTS TO PAY FOR THESE ALL-IMPORTANT FAMILY MORALE-BOOSTING ACTIVITIES. LTWF UNDERSTANDS THE STRAIN AND STRESS THE FAMILIES OF THIS ELITE FORCE ENDURE; CONSERVATION OF THE FAMILY UNIT IS PARAMOUNT FOR THE MORALE AND FOCUS OF OUR RANGERS. WHEN THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE HAPPENS, LTWF WILL PROVIDE FUNDS TO GET FRG "FIRST RESPONDERS" TO THE SIDE OF THE RANGER WIFE AND FAMILY DURING THE ARDUOUS BURIAL PROCESS. ARMY RANGER LEAD THE WAY FUND SUPPORTS MORAL FUNCTION GRANTS FOR ALL-IMPORTANT PRE- AND POST-DEPLOYMENT MORALE-BOOSTING ACTIVITIES. DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON, LTWF PROVIDES GIFT CARDS TO OUR MORE JUNIOR NCO RANGER FAMILIES, DETERMINED BY COMMAND, WHO ARE MOST IN NEED AND UNDER FINANCIAL STRAIN DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON.

  Expenses $434,587 · Grants $357,934

• GOLD STAR PROGRAM: WHEN A RANGER HAS PAID THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, WHETHER, IN COMBAT OR TRAINING, ARMY RANGER LEAD THE WAY FUND BELIEVES THERE IS A MORAL OBLIGATION TO SUPPORT THE DEPENDENTS OF THESE HEROES. THROUGH THIS PROGRAM WE CAN HONOR AND MEMORIALIZE DECEASED RANGERS AND THEIR GOLD STAR FAMILIES. TO EDUCATE AND BRING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE NEEDS OF GOLD STAR FAMILIES AND THE PROGRAMS AVAILABLE TO ALL ARMY RANGERS THROUGH THE LEAD THE WAY FUND ORGANIZATION.

  Expenses $94,714 · Grants $54,110

• OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES

  Expenses $22,477

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.

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

  $1,597,729

  Expenses

  $1,380,436

  Contributions

  $995,561

  Grants paid

  $575,224

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,394,918

  Expenses

  $1,372,883

  Contributions

  $1,020,410

  Grants paid

  $544,821

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,188,776

  Expenses

  $1,363,031

  Contributions

  $1,019,067

  Grants paid

  $582,688

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

  $2,247,548

  Expenses

  $1,404,347

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,689,187

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,891,106

  Expenses

  $1,170,721

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,452,596

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,199,720

  Expenses

  $1,268,846

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,564,235

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,112,494

  Expenses

  $1,454,086

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,511,635

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,264,340

  Expenses

  $1,495,105

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,803,998

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,654,996

  Expenses

  $1,454,295

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,202,852

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,851,787

  Expenses

  $1,047,714

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,725,295

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $939,184

  Expenses

  $605,300

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,440,809

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

• DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY HEADQUARTERS

  $311,901

  2022 · WE ASSIST OVER 4450 RANGERS AND FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE 75TH RANGER REGIMENT WITH HEALTH WELLNESS AND MORALE PROGRAMS THAT ARE VITALE TO SUSTAIN THESE FORCES, WHO HAVE CONTINUOUSLY BEEN DEPLOYED FIGHTING THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM.

• DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY HEADQUARTERS

  $308,259

  2024 · WE ASSIST OVER 5,000 RANGERS AND FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE 75TH RANGER REGIMENT WITH HEALTH WELLNESS AND MORALE PROGRAMS THAT ARE VITALE TO SUSTAIN THESE FORCES, WHO HAVE CONTINUOUSLY BEEN DEPLOYED FIGHTING THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM.

• DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY HEADQUARTERS

  $298,496

  2023 · WE ASSIST OVER 4450 RANGERS AND FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE 75TH RANGER REGIMENT WITH HEALTH WELLNESS AND MORALE PROGRAMS THAT ARE VITALE TO SUSTAIN THESE FORCES, WHO HAVE CONTINUOUSLY BEEN DEPLOYED FIGHTING THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM.

• FORT BENNING CTOF-BI-ANNUAL CHAPLAIN DONATION

  $98,279

  2022 · CHAPLAIN PROGRAM FOR RANGER AND FAMILY RESILIENCY

• FORT BENNING CTOF-BI-ANNUAL CHAPLAIN DONATION

  $87,494

  2023 · CHAPLAIN PROGRAM FOR RANGER AND FAMILY RESILIENCY

• FORT BENNING CTOF-BI-ANNUAL CHAPLAIN DONATION

  $83,535

  2024 · CHAPLAIN PROGRAM FOR RANGER AND FAMILY RESILIENCY

• RANGER SPECIAL ACTIVITIES FUND

  $0

  2024 · FOR ABOVE PURPOSE AND FOR MORALE FUNCTION FOR SOLDIERS AND FAMILIES

• RANGER SPECIAL ACTIVITIES FUND

  $0

  2022 · FOR ABOVE PURPOSE AND FOR MORALE FUNCTION FOR SOLDIERS AND FAMILIES

• RANGER SPECIAL ACTIVITIES FUND

  $0

  2023 · FOR ABOVE PURPOSE AND FOR MORALE FUNCTION FOR SOLDIERS AND FAMILIES

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $66,100

  2022 · COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS

• GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $62,000

  2023 · COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $55,500

  2023 · EDUCATION

• AITEC GIVES BACK FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2024 · TO FURTHER AITEC'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $36,622

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $25,000

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $22,263

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $19,770

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $16,000

  2022 · HUMAN SERVICES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $15,045

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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