Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA
AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $593,800 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $594k
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Agency for Community Empowerment of Nepa does
Mission
Our mission is to empower people with the skills to become self-sufficient and enhance their lives through education, training, life-skills, and support services.child day care, energy conservation, crisis intervention, food and shelter services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Head start:the acenepa head start/early head start programs provide comprehensive services to families and children enrolled. These services include:1) health assessments including physical and dental, as well as heights, weights, vision, hearing, speech, and lead screenings on each child. Also medical plans and follow up services for children with health issues. 2) children are provided nutritious meals and menus are developed by a licensed nutritionist to meet cacfp guidelines. Nutrition assessments are also completed on each child and followed up by the nutrition consultant as needed.3) individualized educational plans for each child that are measured to assess progress in the early learning domains three times each year. Program curriculum for head start is the creative curriculum and early head start utilizes the parents as teachers curriculum. The early head start program also provides services to pregnant mothers to ensure proper and adequate pre-natal care is provided and future parents receive educational information from a licensed practical nurse to prepare them for the birth of their child.4) services for children who have been diagnosed with special needs ar…
$15,007,225 spent64% of program spendingPa department of education:see supporting schedule o for description of exempt purpose achievements under head start and p.d.e.
$5,802,465 spent25% of program spendingWeatherization
$1,872,559 spent8% of program spendingOther program services
$927,761 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,610,010.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $6.6M to $11M (+71%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jim Wansacz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $19k → $12k.
1 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 62% · 2021 35% · 2022 47% · 2023 87% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
56% of AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $112k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA is better cushioned than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $114.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$114.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Scranton Lackawanna Resources Developmen · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA?
- AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $593,800 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $593,800 in grants to AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA?
- THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing