California · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND
CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND (California) receives grants from 139 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,133,145 to it, the largest being Mujeres Unidas y Activas ($3,833,615). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 139
- Grants received
- $44M
- Net assets
- $29M
What Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund does
Mission
Cepef operates as a grassroots, community based organization, promoting civic education and engagement, conducting research on the effects of policies on poverty and racial inequity, training and developing leaders for racial injustice, building capacity for community organizations, and empowering lowincome and working class communities throughout the united states.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Build and exercise progressive political power through mass-based electoral organizing and integrated strategies, including base-building and policy advocacy.
$7,535,574 spentof which $1,594,707 as grants$517,070 earned by the program56% of program spendingProvide capacity building and organizational development support for social, racial, and economic justice organizations.
$5,920,808 spentof which $20,000 as grants$496,632 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,456,382.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $10M to $23M (+120%).
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: 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 55 funders, grant income rose $50k → $8.0M.
28 of 139 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 139 funders by total. 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
CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
58% 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 CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 16% · 2022 17% · 2023 10% — diversifying over time.
“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
76% of CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 42% 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
66% of CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Against its field
CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 152 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$25k
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 CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Core Commons LLC · disregarded
- Resilient Strategies · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: 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 CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND?
- CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND (California) receives grants from 139 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,133,145 to it, the largest being Mujeres Unidas y Activas ($3,833,615). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 139 organizations giving $44,133,145 in grants to CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND?
- Mujeres Unidas y Activas is the largest funder on record, with $3,833,615 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 139 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