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LEADERSHIP NOW PROJECT

EIN 82-1780610 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$4,555,748
Expenses 2024
$4,709,403

Program services were 94.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Street
1401 K STREET NW 900

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).

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.

  • DANIELLA BALLOU-AARES

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $312,132
    From this org
    $297,076
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,056
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $297,076
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $12,006
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,050
    Filer's total
    $312,132

  • KATHERINE COUSINS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JEFF WALKER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CHAVA KALLBERG

    CGO (UNTIL 9/13/2024)

    Total calculated
    $242,252
    From this org
    $228,506
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,746
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $208,506
    Bonus
    $20,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,256
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,490
    Filer's total
    $242,252

  • LELA BRODSKY

    CHIEF OF STAFF

    Total calculated
    $214,509
    From this org
    $198,163
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,346
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $186,163
    Bonus
    $12,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,075
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,271
    Filer's total
    $214,509

  • DANIEL SELZ

    DIRECTOR OF INNOVATION

    Total calculated
    $198,591
    From this org
    $187,902
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,689
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $181,902
    Bonus
    $6,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,639
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,050
    Filer's total
    $198,591

  • LAUREN CAPLAN

    MANAGING DIRECTOR (UNTIL 10/18/2024)

    Total calculated
    $182,158
    From this org
    $160,618
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,540
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,618
    Bonus
    $6,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,442
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,098
    Filer's total
    $182,158

  • LEORA FALKIN

    DIRECTOR OF MEMBERSHIP GROWTH & OPS

    Total calculated
    $157,648
    From this org
    $144,297
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,351
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $143,297
    Bonus
    $1,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,902
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,449
    Filer's total
    $157,648

  • GRETTA DETERMANN

    IMPACT MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $126,501
    From this org
    $115,577
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,924
    Hours/week
    40

  • MARIE ADRIAN

    DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $193,381
    From this org
    $165,175
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,206
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $159,175
    Bonus
    $6,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,619
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,587
    Filer's total
    $193,381

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 — 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
    $4,555,748
    Expenses
    $4,709,403
    Contributions
    $2,561,140
    Grants paid
    $190,700
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,683,739
    Expenses
    $3,897,271
    Contributions
    $2,038,450
    Grants paid
    $3,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,259,836
    Expenses
    $3,469,281
    Contributions
    $1,409,099
    Grants paid
    $30,000

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.

Grants made

  • PROJECT DEMOCRACY

    $183,200

    2024 WI CASE AGAINST AUTHORITARIANISM MEDIA CAMPAIGN & MEDIA SUPPORT AND ANALYSIS FOR NY-04 CAMPAIGN

  • TUFTS UNIVERSITY

    $30,000

    2022 RESEARCH ON THE CIVIC ROLE OF BUSINESS LEADERS

Where these grants went next →

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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.