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Empower Illinois

We believe every child in the state of illinois should have an equal opportunity for a quality education. EMPOWER ILLINOIS expands quality education options for low-income and working families of illinois, with a particular emphasis on k-12 scholarships and student-centered public policy.

$124k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,334
Largest grant, FY2025
$38,334
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$241k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2025 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Nicholas of Tolentine School$38,3341n/a
Ss Bruno & Richard$23,0001n/a
St Ferdinand School & Convent$15,3341n/a
St Agnes School$15,3341n/a
Our Lady of Charity School$15,3341n/a
Our Lady of Humility School$7,6671n/a
St Anastasia School$7,6671n/a

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About Empower Illinois

How much does Empower Illinois give?
Empower Illinois reported 7 grants totaling $124,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
Who are Empower Illinois's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2025 to FY2025: St Nicholas of Tolentine School ($38k), Ss Bruno & Richard ($23k), St Ferdinand School & Convent ($15k).
Where is Empower Illinois based?
Empower Illinois is based in IL.

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 7 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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