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EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS

EIN 81-5294637 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2023
$2,551,115
Expenses 2023
$3,234,289

Program services were 78.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q20
Classification
1000
Street
1100 13TH STREET NW

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 · 2023

Mission

AT EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS, OUR STRATEGIC VISION OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS IS TO BUILD A PIPELINE OF A NEW CADRE OF PUBLIC SERVANTS THAT THINKS CRITICALLY, WORKS COMPETENTLY, AND WILL REALLY DRIVE CHANGE IN AFRICA.

Activities or mission (Part I)

EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS MISSION IS TO DEVELOP NEW TALENT TO IMPROVE CIVIL SERVICE PERFORMANCE IN AFRICA

  • EMERGING PUBLIC LEADERS (EPL) IS A PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION PARTNERING WITH GOVERNMENTS IN AFRICA TO DRIVE STRONGER CITIZEN OUTCOMES BY CO-CREATING A NEW GENERATION OF YOUNG CIVIL SERVICE LEADERS COMMITTED TO ACHIEVING EXTRAORDINARY SOCIAL IMPACT AND SERVICE DELIVERY. EPL HELPS STRENGTHEN CAPACITIES IN AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS THROUGH AN INNOVATIVE MODEL INVOLVING MERITOCRATIC SELECTION AND PLACEMENT OF HIGHLY MOTIVATED AND HIGH-ACHIEVING YOUNG AFRICANS INTO GOVERNMENT THROUGH OUR FLAGSHIP PROGRAM--THE PUBLIC SERVICE FELLOWSHIP. EPL IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED IN THE UNIED STATES WITH A US-BASED BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND COUNTRY OFFICES IN LIBERIA, GHANA AND MORE RECENTLY, IN KENYA.

    Expenses $2,547,537 · Grants $1,706,926

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.

  • MELISSA BUKURU

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7

  • BETSY WILLIAMS

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7

  • TODD JOHNSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHARMI SURIANARAIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ABIGAIL BURGESSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THOMAS WILLIAMS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EMMANUEL LUBEMBE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTABEL E DADZIE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • IRENE W WAIRIMU

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $127,990
    From this org
    $127,990
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • CAREN WAKOLI

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-TILL JULY 2023

    Total calculated
    $37,500
    From this org
    $37,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • ABIGAIL KAJUMBA

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-STARTED SEPT 2023

    Total calculated
    $68,324
    From this org
    $59,831
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,493
    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
    $2,551,115
    Expenses
    $3,234,289
    Contributions
    $2,551,061
    Grants paid
    $1,706,926
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,018,419
    Expenses
    $2,584,019
    Contributions
    $2,018,365
    Grants paid
    $1,446,411

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
    $5,804,143
    Expenses
    $1,361,470
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,614,040

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $592,548
    Expenses
    $466,287
    Assets (EOY)
    $143,720

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $427,835
    Expenses
    $489,451
    Assets (EOY)
    $263,468

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $200,000
    Expenses
    $123,953
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,933

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 2017

Tax period
1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017
Principal officer
Joanne Ke Edelman
Mailing address
1401 K St NWWashington DC DC 20005
Website
emergingpublicleaders.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 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

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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.