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Empower Me Up

To develop and support programs that aid and empower teens and their families to overcome emotional and behavioral issues.

$77k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2021
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Itemized, FY2024
$55k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
States reached, FY2024
2
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Youth Development$130kEducation$31kArts & Culture$25kFood & Nutrition$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Teen Rescue Inc$130,000111%
Ccae Theatricals Inc$25,00011%
California State University San Marcos Foundation$21,00020%
Feeding San Diego$10,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to Empower Me Up 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.

About Empower Me Up

How much does Empower Me Up give?
Empower Me Up reported 4 itemized grants totaling $55,000, out of $77,050 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Empower Me Up fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (66%), Education (16%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are Empower Me Up's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Teen Rescue Inc ($130k), Ccae Theatricals Inc ($25k), California State University San Marcos Foundation ($21k).
Where is Empower Me Up based?
Empower Me Up is based in CA.

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 5 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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