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EMPOWER CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION

EMPOWER CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,670 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($42,291). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$117k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$76k
Net assets
$10k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Empower Childrens Education Foundation does

Mission

Life giving project

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Life giving project that makes it possible for poor and under privileddged girl and boys in se and central america to obtain access to a proper quality education

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($71k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($17k)2024 Revenue 164 ($117k) Expenses 229 ($124k) Net assets 58 ($10k)
20232024
Revenue (164)Expenses (229)Net assets (58)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 2023 to 2024, from $17k to $15k (−13%).

$17k
$15k
20232024
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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of EMPOWER CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’23
−$7k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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

EMPOWER CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100% 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 CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

100% of EMPOWER CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

EMPOWER CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,838 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)64% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,838 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMPOWER CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: 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 CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
EMPOWER CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,670 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($42,291). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does EMPOWER CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $75,670 in grants to EMPOWER CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EMPOWER CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $42,291 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EMPOWER CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 3 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