2025-09-23T12:00:13-04:00 2024-12-31 474306215 Mullins PC 7625 Wisconsin Avenue Bethesda MD 20814 990 2024-01-01 831204471 LEAD Africa % Anita Farsad LEAD 6493791154 222 Central Park South STE 15 New York NY 100191408 ANITA FARSAD Executive Director 6493791154 2025-09-09 true true JOHN MULLINS P01429307 2027706371 2025-09-23 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z LEAD Edu Anita Farsad 222 Central Park South Ste 15 New York NY 100191408 1245030 false X www.leadedu.org X 2018 DE LEAD Edus mission is to establish, support, and grow programs that empower a generation of ethical, empathetic, and entrepreneurial leaders. We develop leaders through a holistic combination of education, sports, and leadership training delivered by locally-led LEAD Hubs. 5 4 3 5 0 0 1516102 1218436 0 175 26594 0 1516277 1245030 1378068 1082994 0 204682 255758 0 138133 117705 155050 1700455 1493802 -184178 -248772 1467259 1025217 546353 353083 920906 672134 LEAD Edus mission is to establish, support, and grow programs that empower a generation of ethical, empathetic, and entrepreneurial leaders. We develop leaders through a holistic combination of education, sports, and leadership training delivered by locally-led LEAD Hubs. false false 1213097 1082994 LEAD Hubs: LEAD Edu supports a network of independently run LEAD Hubs that combine high-quality education, elite sport training, and leadership development to empower youth in underserved communities. In 2024, LEAD Edu provided grants totaling $1,082,994 to two partner organizations. Funds are disbursed according to an annual budget approved by a local governing Board. These grants supported operating expenses, academic and football programming, teaching and coaching staff, nutrition, infrastructure improvements, extracurricular activities, and capital projects. In 2024, we completed construction of a boys dormitory in Liberia that houses 80 students and purchased school buses to enable travel from students homes to the academy in Morocco. Grants: LEAD Monrovia Football Academy (Liberia) $750,020 LEAD Morocco $288,499 Also includes $44,475 in donated sports equipment. 18295 The LEAD Global Network: Supported 7 alumni from LEAD Hubs to pursue secondary and post-secondary education opportunities in the United States by covering essential incidental costs such as visa processing, airfare, technology, and settlement expenses. All students were selected through a competitive internal review process and received full scholarships from their host institutions. For most, this marked the first time they had traveled internationally. This investment ensured that high-potential young leaders could access life-changing educational opportunities and continue their leadership development globally, advancing our mission to equip youth to lead in their communities and beyond LEAD Learning: In December 2024, LEAD Edu launched a pilot to adapt Harvard EASEL Labs SEL Kernels to the Moroccan context and our LEAD Learning leadership framework. This contextualized program, renamed as Waves of Leadership in Morocco, builds critical leadership skills such as self-regulation, empathy, and goal-setting through play-based learning and is poised for scale through the public sector in 2026. Since 2015, we have adapted the leadership course taught at our Liberian and Moroccan Hubs since 2015 to meet the needs of the worlds youth more broadly focusing our lessons on innovation, empathy, perseverance and more. 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As of year end, The Organization had no unrecognized tax benefits related to uncertain tax positions in its information return that would qualify for either recognition or disclosure in its financial statements.The Organizations policy would be to recognize interest and penalties on tax positions related to its unrecognized tax benefits in income tax expense in the financial statements. Through year end, there have been no matters that would have resulted in an accrual for interest and/or penalties. true Middle East and North Africa Grant making Grant making 288499 Sub-Saharan Africa Grant making Grant making 750020 1038519 1038519 Sub-Saharan Africa Education 750020 Middle East and North Africa Education 288499 2 false false false false false false X 44475 FMV false false false Form 990 governing body review Part VI line 11 The Form 990 was reviewed by Board member Mr. Albert prior to submission and deemed accurate and acceptable. Conflict of interest policy compliance Part VI line 12c Any potential conflicts of interest are disclosed and addressed during quarterly board meetings, in accordance with the organizations written conflict of interest policy. CEO executive director top management comp Part VI line 15a The Organization determines compensation using Guidestars compensation benchmarks and market research to ensure salaries are competitive and appropriate for the organizations size, scope, and geographic cost of living. Governing documents etc available to public Part VI line 19 No documents available to the public General explanation attachment LEAD Hubs Operational Support LEAD staff provide operational support to grantee organizations access to a network of global partners a platform for knowledge sharing among LEAD hubs and the supply of standardized hub policies. LEAD Learning We have adapted the leadership course taught at our Liberian and Moroccan Hubs since 2015 to meet the needs of the worlds youth more broadly focusing our lessons on innovation empathy perseverance and more. Today LEAD Learning has delivered its flagship leadership course to more than 135,000 children in Liberia Morocco and Bangladesh through a combination of inperson delivery and lowcost mobile technology. As we build additional relevant curricula we are simultaneously preparing to scale the program in partnership with global corporations placebased organizations and school districts.