New Jersey · Private foundation
Empower Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $4k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $333
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $336
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 6
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $407k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Empower Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $4k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $6k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $2k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human Rights Foundation Inc | $1,550 | 2 | 0% |
| Brink Technology Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Open Sats Initiative Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| US Freedom Flyers | $333 | 1 | n/a |
| Physicians for Informed Consent | $333 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Health Defense | $333 | 1 | 0% |
| McCullough Foundation | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Our Rescue | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Farm Sanctuary Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Empower Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Empower Foundation
- How much does Empower Foundation give?
- Empower Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $3,966 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Empower Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (41%), Science & Tech (17%), Civil Rights (13%).
- Who are Empower Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Human Rights Foundation Inc ($2k), Brink Technology Inc ($1k), Open Sats Initiative Inc ($1k).
- Does Empower Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Empower Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Empower Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Empower Foundation based?
- Empower Foundation is based in NJ.
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