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BE A LEADER FOUNDATION

EIN 55-0850279 PHOENIX, AZ

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Revenue 2025
$2,555,638
Expenses 2025
$1,925,230

Program services were 76.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W70
Classification
1200
Street
300 W CLARENDON AVE STE 460

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

Be A Leader's mission is to empower students to access, navigate, and succeed in college.

  • Our vision is that every student has the skills, tools, and opportunities to achieve their life goals. Guided by our mission to empower students to access, navigate, and succeed in postsecondary education, Be A Leader Foundation provides college access, postsecondary transition, and college success services, now reaching well over 14,000 students a year. Our theory of change rests on the belief that providing students with guidance, mentorship, access to resources, and empowerment meaningfully enhances their chances of pursuing postsecondary education. Our students carry tremendous potential, but often lack the external support and resources needed to complete the college-going equation. Caring adults are central to how we close that gap our volunteers serve as mentors who help guide college-going conversations with students, while senior boot camp coaches play a crucial role in helping seniors meet critical deadlines throughout their final year.

    Expenses $1,476,935 · Grants $43,700 · Revenue $55,991

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.

  • Soilo J Felix

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $165,000
    From this org
    $165,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $165,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $165,000

  • Sharon Irwin Foulon

    Chief Adv. Officer

    Total calculated
    $115,000
    From this org
    $115,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Melissa B Trujillo

    CHAIR/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Bustamante

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Benito Almanza

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lon Babby

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tim Desoto

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Travis Pacheco

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rob Taylor

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Glenn Wike

    Director

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,555,638
    Expenses
    $1,925,230
    Contributions
    $2,328,294
    Grants paid
    $43,700
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,048,661
    Expenses
    $1,702,632
    Contributions
    $1,884,267
    Grants paid
    $42,150
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,723,752
    Expenses
    $1,663,258
    Contributions
    $1,637,340
    Grants paid
    $34,450
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,172,543
    Expenses
    $1,500,307
    Contributions
    $2,129,489
    Grants paid
    $37,800

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
    $2,907,092
    Expenses
    $1,786,669
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,748,674

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,594,673
    Expenses
    $1,642,090
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,687,447

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,062,164
    Expenses
    $1,182,225
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,529,936

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,141,257
    Expenses
    $1,046,095
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,516,347

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,151,332
    Expenses
    $977,680
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,578,094

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,049,659
    Expenses
    $843,523
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,323,789

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,052,072
    Expenses
    $736,090
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,102,123

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $558,322
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,886,249

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 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.