Texas · Private foundation
Empowering Works Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $75k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,440
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $42,843
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $395k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Empowering Works Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 79% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $75k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $44k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $51k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $44k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $49k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $108k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $61k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $43k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverbend Baptist Church | $77,866 | 2 | n/a |
| His Crossroads Ministries | $20,800 | 3 | n/a |
| Belydia | $20,529 | 5 | 10% |
| The Children's Home Inc | $11,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Restavek Freedom Foundation | $1,440 | 1 | 0% |
| Come and See Foundation Inc | $1,030 | 1 | n/a |
| Christ for the City International Inc | $1,030 | 1 | n/a |
| To Cure a Rose Foundation | $412 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($335k), not named here.
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Empowering Works Inc
- How much does Empowering Works Inc give?
- Empowering Works Inc reported 8 grants totaling $74,955 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Empowering Works Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (66%), Education (20%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Empowering Works Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Riverbend Baptist Church ($78k), His Crossroads Ministries ($21k), Belydia ($21k).
- Does Empowering Works Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Empowering Works Inc 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 Empowering Works Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Empowering Works Inc based?
- Empowering Works Inc is based in TX.
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