Louisiana · Nonprofit
EMPOWER 225
EMPOWER 225 (Louisiana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,778,161 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,025,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $409k
What Empower 225 does
Mission
The mission of Empower 225 is to positively influence and personally impact at-risk youth by developing meaningful relationships through life skills training, educational programs, employment opportunities, and safe housing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy - my community cares is a program that provides a holistic approach with advocacy and services to youth and their families to help keep them out of state custody. This initiative also helps to provide awareness and advocacy for youth in care and provide support and training for caregivers and birth parents.
$198,237 spent11% of program spendingEducation - the adult education/work ready u program provides students with the opportunity to achieve their hiset and workforce preparedness. The preventing trafficking of girls (ptg) program provides or enhance preventative education, case management, and mentorship to girls ages 12-18 who are at risk and whom have been identified as a victim of human trafficking.
$506,280 spent28% of program spendingThe Empower 225 character first leadership academy helps selected middle and high school aged youth become independent through life skills, community service and career exposure. Dreamville (dville), an afterschool program, and the l.I.t. (leaders in training) summer camp provides a safe positive place and educational support for at risk youth ages 13-18 after school and during the summer. Cilp program provides life skills training for youth ages 14-21 in foster care or aged out of foster care. The street outreach program provides street-based intervention and wrap-around supportive services to homeless and atrisk youth ages 16-21 to help move them towards a successful, self-sufficient adulthood.
$655,546 spent37% of program spendingHousing - anchor house provides stable housing and support for homeless or at risk male youth ages 16-21. It is a family-style transitional living program used to create a supportive home environment.
$419,125 spent24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,779,188.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.1M to $488k (−54%).
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 84% · 2019 72% · 2020 71% · 2021 60% · 2022 63% · 2023 56% · 2024 61% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of EMPOWER 225’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $37k → $315k.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 EMPOWER 225’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 26 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
EMPOWER 225 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 EMPOWER 225.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 55% · 2019 41% · 2020 51% · 2021 76% · 2022 66% · 2023 79% — 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
31% of EMPOWER 225's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
63% of EMPOWER 225'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 $651k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
EMPOWER 225's revenue grew 28% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding EMPOWER 225 receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.8M
- Department of Justice$2.5M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.6M
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 EMPOWER 225
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMPOWER 225: 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 EMPOWER 225?
- EMPOWER 225 (Louisiana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,778,161 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,025,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EMPOWER 225 have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,778,161 in grants to EMPOWER 225, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMPOWER 225?
- THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,025,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMPOWER 225 find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 26 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