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LEADING EDGE ACADEMY MARICOPA

EIN 27-0349709 GILBERT, AZ

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Revenue 2024
$9,976,123
Expenses 2024
$9,564,149

Program services were 81.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
1200
Street
633 E RAY RD STE 132

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

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

This address is a suite or unit (STE 132). 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

EDUCATE STUDENTS BY OPERATING AN ARIZONA CHARTER SCHOOL.

  • LEADING EDGE ACADEMY WILL DEVELOP LIFELONG LEARNERS WHO LEAD WITH CHARACTER AND ACHIEVE ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE BY EDUCATING THE WHOLE CHILD AND FOSTERING COMMUNITY AND PARENTAL PARTNERSHIPS. THE SCHOOL PROVIDES INSTRUCTION TO STUDENTS IN GRADES KINDERGARTEN THROUGH EIGHTH.

    Expenses $7,287,531 · Revenue $8,329,785

  • LEADING EDGE ACADEMY WILL DEVELOP LIFELONG LEARNERS WHO LEAD WITH CHARACTER AND ACHIEVE ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE BY EDUCATING THE WHOLE CHILD AND FOSTERING COMMUNITY AND PARENTAL PARTNERSHIPS. THE SCHOOL PROVIDES INSTRUCTION TO STUDENTS IN GRADES KINDERGARTEN THROUGH EIGHTH.

    Expenses $498,841

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.

  • Delmer Geesey

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $215,855
    From this org
    $205,550
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,305
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $205,550
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $10,305
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $215,855
  • Lori Anderson

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $178,791
    From this org
    $170,285
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,506
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $170,285
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,506
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $178,791
  • Michelle Borja

    FINANCE DIRE

    Total calculated
    $111,166
    From this org
    $106,055
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,111
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jennifer Garcia

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $97,251
    From this org
    $89,542
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,709
    Hours/week
    40
  • Rusty Akers

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Candy Body

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Aeson Johnson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mathew Reese

    BOARD MEMBER

    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. 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
    $9,976,123
    Expenses
    $9,564,149
    Contributions
    $1,492,249
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $9,727,420
    Expenses
    $8,867,816
    Contributions
    $9,556,018
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $9,437,212
    Expenses
    $8,324,295
    Contributions
    $9,225,174
    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
    $8,116,628
    Expenses
    $7,081,927
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,819,305
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,978,381
    Expenses
    $6,318,523
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,800,022
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,486,984
    Expenses
    $5,919,930
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,854,574
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,096,355
    Expenses
    $5,659,672
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,908,035
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,534,337
    Expenses
    $5,080,059
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,223,966
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,781,476
    Expenses
    $4,572,530
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,940,488
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,279,777
    Expenses
    $2,558,269
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,702,054
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,602,775
    Expenses
    $2,093,331
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,451,133

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

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 November 2011, reinstated 15 November 2015.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.