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BETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUND INC

BETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUND INC (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,710 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$68k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$623k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Bettie Brand Mothers Empowerment Fund Inc does

Mission

The Bettie Brand Mothers' Empowerment Fund gives stipends to "provide women in need with a hand up, so they may live with dignity and independence".

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Since 2013, the Bettie Brand Mothers' Empowerment Fund (BBMEF) has awarded Spirit Award stipends (up to $10,000 each and to be used within three years) to Georgia women (17 years or older) who need a hand up to help them journey towards a life of independence and dignity.The Spirit Award stipends must be used for services, activities, and programs for self-development. Stipend examples include education tuition, education certification fees, education materials/supplies/books, tutoring expenses, work materials, business equipment, childcare reimbursement during education/certification training, medical expense reimbursement, therapy reimbursement, exercise equipment/fees, medical adaptive devices, and office/work medical adaptive room modifications.The Spirit Award stipends do not go directly to the applicant but to the entity or service for which the stipend is being requested.Each year 1-5 Spirit Award stipends are awarded.We ask Spirit Award stipend awardees to make a committment to pay it forward in the future by helping, mentoring, or caring for others in need.

    $27,858 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $27,858.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($84k) Expenses 100 ($21k) Net assets 100 ($361k)2018 Revenue 80 ($67k) Expenses 188 ($39k) Net assets 99 ($358k)2019 Revenue 56 ($47k) Expenses 101 ($21k) Net assets 116 ($420k)2021 Revenue 112 ($94k) Expenses 118 ($24k) Net assets 148 ($534k)2022 Revenue 19 ($16k) Expenses 195 ($40k) Net assets 126 ($454k)2023 Revenue 61 ($51k) Expenses 165 ($34k) Net assets 144 ($521k)2024 Revenue 81 ($68k) Expenses 262 ($54k) Net assets 156 ($565k)2025 Revenue 82 ($68k) Expenses 312 ($64k) Net assets 172 ($623k)
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Revenue (82)Expenses (312)Net assets (172)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $534k to $454k (−15%).

$361k
$358k
$420k
$534k
$454k
$521k
$565k
$623k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

66% of BETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,557 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$63k
’17
$29k
’18
$26k
’19
$69k
’21
−$25k
’22
$17k
’23
$13k
’24
$4k
’25
4.4
months of
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

Candace Kaspers

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed911111616121212
Joined·+7+0·+1+1+0+0
No longer listed·50·1500
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $52.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 BETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUND INC’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

BETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

71% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUND INC.

69%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 59% · 2019 80% · 2020 94% · 2021 94% · 2022 73% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

71% of BETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUND INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 4 states.

MI
NC
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,305 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve4.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,305 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

43% of spending goes to programs.

Program 43%Management 50%Fundraising 7%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds BETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUND INC?
BETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUND INC (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,710 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $11,710 in grants to BETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUND INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUND INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUND INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing