El Paso Leadership Academy

Analysis

El Paso Leadership Academy is a registered charity in United States, based in El Paso, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending August 2023, El Paso Leadership Academy reported income of $9.2m and spending of $9.5m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $2.5m to $9.2m (+263%), an average of +38% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 92%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, El Paso Leadership Academy sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Park Century School ($9.2m), Erskine Academy ($9.2m) and John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Foundation Incorporated ($9.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 16% and program service revenue 83% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $246k (2.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $4.9m. At year end it held assets of $18.9m against liabilities of $16.8m, net assets of $2.2m. It reported 131 employees.