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POTATO LEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION

EIN 84-3933797 WASHINGTON, DC

Largest nonprofits in District of Columbia

Revenue 2024
$350,808
Expenses 2024
$274,685

Program services were 78.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K20
Classification
1200
Street
50 F ST NW STE 900

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

4 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 900). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

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

The Potato Leadership, Education, and Advancement Foundation is working to become the long-term funding source to support leadership development, educational programs, and other efforts to advance the potato industry in the United States.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Growing people who grow potatoes- See Schedule O

  • Leadership Development, Educational Training and Advancement Opportunities: Growers will learn how to become effective communicators, influencers, and decision-makers for the industry, broaden their understanding of the key opportunities, practices, and challenges affecting national potato production and build their industry network through unique opportunities for collaboration with grower-leaders from across the country. The Leadership Institute Alumni Summit brings together Institute graduates to network, refresh skills, and learn new techniques to better position themselves for success in the potato industry. The Potato Industry Leadership Institute brings together outstanding potato growers and industry representatives for eight days of training and professional development.

    Expenses $205,068 · Revenue $118,399

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

    Expenses $10,000 · Grants $10,000

As filed on the 2024 return. 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.

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.

  • Brett Jensen

    Chairman of the Board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 5 related
  • RJ Andrus

    Vice Chairman of the Board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Shelley Olsen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Wendy Dykstra

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Keith McGovern

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gregg Halverson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • William K Quarles

    President

    Total calculated
    $307,864
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $248,604
    Other
    $59,260
    Hours/week
    2 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $248,190 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $414 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $22,261 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $36,999 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $307,864 related
  • Michael R Wenkel

    Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $275,482
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $237,263
    Other
    $38,219
    Hours/week
    5 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $236,849 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $414 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $20,680 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $17,539 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $275,482 related

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $350,808
    Expenses
    $274,685
    Contributions
    $127,545
    Grants paid
    $10,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $350,288
    Expenses
    $169,326
    Contributions
    $160,335
    Grants paid
    $10,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $169,181
    Expenses
    $148,570
    Contributions
    $60,789
    Grants paid
    $10,000

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
    $202,565
    Expenses
    $167,464
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,204,865
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $583,209
    Expenses
    $25,644
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,250,265

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 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Kam Quarles
Mailing address
1300 L Street NW Suite 910Washington DC 20005
Website
www.pleaf.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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.