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LEAD CHARTER SCHOOLS

EIN 74-3027316 GILBERT, AZ

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Revenue 2023
$11,731,326
Expenses 2023
$12,180,621

Program services were 78.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B29
Classification
2000
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 · 2023

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 KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 12TH GRADE.

    Expenses $9,105,020 · Revenue $29,464

  • OUR MISSION IS TO PROVIDE A POSITIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR EACH CHILD, ESTABLISH A SOLID FOUNDATION THAT WILL HELP BUILD CONFIDENCE TO SUCCEED IN LIFE, AND NUTURE KIDDOS IN A SAFE WHOLESOME ENVIRONMENT.

    Expenses $420,093 · Revenue $416,334

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Mathew Reese

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Cynthia Ann Stark

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gerald Slemmer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Victoria Schildgen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Delmer Geesey

    DIRECTOR/CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Lori Anderson

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Michelle Borja

    FINANCE DIRCECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Terence Anderson

    PRINCIPAL

    Total calculated
    $113,196
    From this org
    $109,131
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,065
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $11,731,326
    Expenses
    $12,180,621
    Contributions
    $11,037,835
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,999,282
    Expenses
    $13,086,442
    Contributions
    $12,447,318
    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
    $11,700,246
    Expenses
    $10,343,454
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,750,697
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,469,322
    Expenses
    $8,581,235
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,931,788
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,992,694
    Expenses
    $7,172,500
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,978,576
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,682,054
    Expenses
    $8,438,854
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,697,233
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,434,032
    Expenses
    $9,100,129
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,887,623
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,228,874
    Expenses
    $8,555,681
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,761,626
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,049,730
    Expenses
    $7,561,546
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,011,940
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,691,985
    Expenses
    $6,951,996
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,830,234
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,048,545
    Expenses
    $6,261,224
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,860,087
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $6,444,765
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,292,876

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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 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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.