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Empower Coalition Inc

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$255k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$744kHousing & Shelter$171kHealth$52kPublic Benefit$20kArts & Culture$9kRecreation & Sports$6k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$377k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ESPERANZA EN ESCALANTE$70,000
BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION$50,000
OLD PUEBLO COMMUNITY SERVICES$50,000
HEALING AZ VETERANS$20,000
HONOR FLIGHT OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA$20,000
BASE CAMP FOR VETERANS INC$20,000
1 VETERAN FOUNDATION$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEALING ARIZONA VETERANS: $7k → 15%HONOR FLIGHT OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $60k → 15%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $75k → 19%HONOR FLIGHT OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $20k → 15%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $50k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$774k · 8 repeat orgs$228k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$774k
$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+27%

Still filing today

88%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BC
    BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +77%
  • EE
    Esperanza En Escalante Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $85k · revenue +24%
  • OP
    Old Pueblo Community Services
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • BC
    BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $80k
  • VV
    VARIOUS VETERANS ORGANIZATIONS
    one grant, 2019 · $29k
  • PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -71%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Operation Phoenix Outdoors

Operation Phoenix Outdoors honors and supports military members, veterans, first responders, and their families by providing guided outdoor experiences that promote healing, strengthen relationships, and help combat veteran suicide.

Recreation & Sports
2
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Arizona

Our Mission: To foster camaraderie among United States veterans of overseas conflicts. To serve our veterans, the military and our communities. To advocate on behalf of all veterans. Our Vision: Ensure that veterans are respected for their…

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3
Warfighter Outfitters

Warfighter Outfitters believe in the healing power of the outdoors. Since 2014, we have provided free fishing, hunting, and engagement trips to disabled veterans. On the water or in the woods, these veteran-only trips help service men and…

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4
Hookin Veterans
Public Benefit
5
Az Heroes to Hometowns Foundation

Arizona Heroes to Hometowns is dedicated to welcome home Service Members who, because of injuries sustained, can no longer serve in the military.

Human Services
6
Honor Flight Northern Arizona

At this time Honor Flight Arizona provides WWll, Korean, and Vietnam Veterans with a trip to Washington D. C to see the memorials built in their honor. Trip includes airfare, meals, hotel, and transportation. We sponsored 390 veterans and…

Public Benefit
7
Vietnam Helicopters
Arts & Culture
8
Wounded War Heroes

Wounded War Heroes was founded to show our appreciation to the men and women who have been wounded or injured as a result of serving our country, by providing them therapeutic outdoor experiences upon their return home from fighting for…

Public Benefit
9
Usvets - Arizona

The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.

Housing & Shelter
10
Triple Bravo Initaive

To empower and support veterans.

Public Benefit
11
Warfighter Scuba

To provide scuba instruction for veterans with ptsd. the weightlessness of scuba provides a peaceful respite from the pressures and trauma of military service. scuba for amputees provides a freedom of movement not experienced for years…

Public Benefit
12
Our Heroes Dreams

To improve the lives of our nations warriors (veterans, first responders, peace officers, and their families) by helping them build a new mission and purpose in life, support their recovery and reintegration, and empower them to accomplish…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Outdoor Adventures for Wounded Veterans Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $202,500 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONABOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Human ServicesBOULDER CREST FOUNDATIONHONOR FLIGHT SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $80,000 · Human ServicesHONOR FLIGHT SOUTHERN ARIZONAHEALING ARIZONA VETERANS: $26,510 · Human ServicesHEALING ARIZONA VETERANSHONOR FLIGHT OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $150,000 · OtherHONOR FLIGHT OF SOUTHERN ARIZONABOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $80,000 · OtherBOULDER CREST FOUNDATIONMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · OtherMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVIC…VARIOUS VETERANS ORGANIZATIONS: $28,840 · OtherVARIOUS VETERANS ORGANIZATIONSBASECAMP FOR VETERANS INC: $20,000 · OtherBASECAMP FOR VETERANS INC1 VETERAN FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Other1 VETERAN FOUNDATION+4 more: $39,150 · Other+4 moreEsperanza En Escalante Inc: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterEsperanza…Old Pueblo Community Services: $75,000 · PhilanthropyPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $25,000 · HealthMedal Of Honor Foundation Inc: $9,000 · Arts & CultureOutdoor Adventures for Wounded Veterans Inc: $6,000 · Public Benefit
Human Services$434,010Other$367,990Housing & Shelter$85,000Philanthropy$75,000Health$25,000Arts & Culture$9,000Public Benefit$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $202,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEsperanza En Escalante Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $80,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetOld Pueblo Community Services: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEALING ARIZONA VETERANS: $26,510 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMedal Of Honor Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOutdoor Adventures for Wounded Veterans Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 50% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Empower Coalition Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Empower Coalition Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Empower Coalition Inc?

Find your warmest path to Empower Coalition Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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