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MAXWELL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC

EIN 82-1614152 DULUTH, GA

Revenue 2024
$10,273,228
Expenses 2024
$12,403,684

Program services were 87.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q31
Classification
1200
Street
2050 SUGARLOAF CIR

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 · 2024

Mission

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

Activities or mission (Part I)

Growing leaders who transform the world around them.

  • National Transformation: We are currently serving in the countries of Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Paraguay, and Papua New Guinea. Utilizing values-based roundtables from our founder John Maxwell to transform hundreds of thousands of people in these countries. We also unite and inspire some of the most influential leaders to include members of the top 8 streams of influence in each country to launch transformational initiatives for their people.

    Expenses $5,454,875 · Grants $1,960,142

  • Individual Transformation: We utilize value-based roundtables from our founder John Maxwell to transform hundreds of thousands of people in the community. Change Your World is a program developed out of John Maxwell and Rob Hoskins' book by the same title. The program takes users on a journey through values-based leadership curriculum, with the goal of equipping people as leaders with good values and a heart for intentionally making a difference in their world. iLead is our peer-to-peer values-based, people-centric leadership development content designed specifically for students. Since its launch in 2018, iLead has provided children and youth in 72+ countries with an opportunity to explore the power of their choices, actions and influence to make their world better and brighter.

    Expenses $3,949,545 · Grants $150,700 · Revenue $1,077,386

  • Community Transformation: In countries too large for country transformation, we work in communities. Currently, we work primarily in the United States, and know community transformation will soon spread to the rest of the world. The approach is similar to country transformation. We utilize value-based roundtables from our founder John Maxwell to transform hundreds of thousands of people in the community. We also unite and inspire some of the most influential leaders in the community to launch transformational initiatives for their people.

    Expenses $1,454,264 · Grants $20,000

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.

  • Collin Sewell

    Secretary / Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.3 related

  • J Mark Cole

    CEO / President / Board Member

    Total calculated
    $150,000
    From this org
    $75,000
    From related orgs
    $75,000
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 10 related

  • John Maxwell

    Board Chair / Founder

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 4 related

  • Camye Mackey

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Dale Alexandar

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Dianna Kokoszka

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Ed Bastian

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.3 related

  • Jim Blanchard

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.3 related

  • Norwood Davis

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5 + 1.5 related

  • Sangram Vajre

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Tim Elmore

    Leadership Expert / Board Member

    Total calculated
    $289,755
    From this org
    $229,635
    From related orgs
    $42,215
    Other
    $17,905
    Hours/week
    30 + 10 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $229,635 + $42,215 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,905
    Filer's total
    $247,540 + $42,215 related

  • Andrew Mark McPeak

    Author / Researcher

    Total calculated
    $139,513
    From this org
    $133,010
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,503
    Hours/week
    40

  • John Gregory Steely

    Executive Vice President

    Total calculated
    $183,082
    From this org
    $120,390
    From related orgs
    $42,532
    Other
    $20,160
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $120,390 + $42,532 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,160
    Filer's total
    $140,550 + $42,532 related

  • John Griffin

    Program Director

    Total calculated
    $183,971
    From this org
    $168,261
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,710
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $163,261
    Bonus
    $5,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,710
    Filer's total
    $183,971

  • Matthew Ward

    Finance Controller

    Total calculated
    $125,000
    From this org
    $125,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Patrick Michael Erwin

    Curriculum Director

    Total calculated
    $110,352
    From this org
    $103,506
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,846
    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. 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
    $10,273,228
    Expenses
    $12,403,684
    Contributions
    $9,454,967
    Grants paid
    $2,130,842
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $10,057,703
    Expenses
    $10,912,927
    Contributions
    $10,467,362
    Grants paid
    $3,334,995
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,644,253
    Expenses
    $8,260,044
    Contributions
    $9,066,718
    Grants paid
    $2,698,564

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
    $10,217,834
    Expenses
    $7,675,945
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,152,600

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,173,402
    Expenses
    $3,274,186
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,718,508

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
Mark Cole
Mailing address
2050 Sugarloaf CircleDuluth GA 30097

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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

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Grants received

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

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.

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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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.