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AFRICAN LEADERSHIP INC

EIN 31-1736706 NASHVILLE, TN

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Revenue 2025
$1,318,302
Expenses 2025
$1,363,226

Program services were 70.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q30
Classification
1000
Street
1906 GLEN ECHO RD UNIT 150268

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

To enable Africa's leaders to cultivate and equip the next generation to lead and build thriving communities so that the beauty, transformation, and hope of the gospel can be seen and experienced by those involved.

  • OUR CORE PROGRAM SERVICE IS THE EDUCATION OF ADULT LEADERS IN AFRICA WE SEEK TO EQUIP AFRICAN LEADERS TO LEAD AND BUILD THRIVING COMMUNITIES. THEIR COURSEWORK HELPS THEM KNOW THE WORD OF GOD MORE COMPLETELY, HEAL EMOTIONAL TRAUMA AND PAIN MORE CAREFULLY, AND USE THE RESOURCES AROUND THEM TO BUILD THE DREAMS OF THEIR COMMUNITIES MORE THOROUGHLY. FROM OUR DATA, MORE THAN 65 OF THESE GRADUATES WILL START SOMETHING NEW FOR THEIR COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $967,105

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.

  • Emily Blackledge

    President

    Total calculated
    $153,985
    From this org
    $122,564
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,421
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $122,564
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $5,572
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,849
    Filer's total
    $153,985

  • Cate Loes

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Randy Draughon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Blake Tidwell

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stephen Gause

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Hannah Jovaag

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Hilary Taft

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matthew White

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brad Jungers

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rick Myers

    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
    $1,318,302
    Expenses
    $1,363,226
    Contributions
    $1,212,387
    Grants paid
    $469,564
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,453,913
    Expenses
    $1,516,767
    Contributions
    $1,380,204
    Grants paid
    $416,139
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,372,056
    Expenses
    $1,385,735
    Contributions
    $1,293,652
    Grants paid
    $610,931
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,164,412
    Expenses
    $1,176,129
    Contributions
    $1,121,297
    Grants paid
    $541,592

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
    $1,120,092
    Expenses
    $964,291
    Assets (EOY)
    $468,032

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,041,929
    Expenses
    $1,100,521
    Assets (EOY)
    $322,473

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,247,432
    Expenses
    $1,386,084
    Assets (EOY)
    $385,940

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,449,399
    Expenses
    $1,334,003
    Assets (EOY)
    $500,855

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,417,227
    Expenses
    $1,323,756
    Assets (EOY)
    $384,552

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,473,877
    Expenses
    $1,591,074
    Assets (EOY)
    $312,632

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.