North Carolina · Nonprofit
EMPOWER DANCE FOUNDATION
EMPOWER DANCE FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,078 to it, the largest being THE MARY DUKE BIDDLE FOUNDATION MISSIONPOST PMB #101 ($46,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $122k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $203k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Empower Dance Foundation does
Mission
Support dance for children and youth
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Outreach program. Designed to engage youth in community settings,the outreach program reached more than 50 young people in the cornwallis community through activities hosted at the weaver street community center. Participants were provided with opportunities for professional dance training, mentorship, and artistic development
$45,602 spent61% of program spendingTuition scholarship program focused on supporting the development of young dancers, the program awarded 16 tuition scholarships to students for advanced training at empower school of movement, chosen for christ dance studio, and carolina ballet dance studio. These scholarships helped reduce financial barriers and ensured participants had access to high-quality dance education and professional training opportunities. Edf also sponsored the community's holiday event, which welcomed participation from more than 100 families who enjoyed performances presented by the dancers. In addition, edf organized a trip for participating youth to attend a performance of the nutcracker in raleigh by carolina ballet, where several scholarship recipients were performing. This experience exposed students to professional-level danceproductions while celebrating the accomplishments of local young artists.
$16,035 spent21% of program spendingE3 summer program - e3 empower, engage, excite.youth participants were provided with a 10-day immersive experience designed to nurture both their emotional and physical well-being through dance instruction, creative expression, and cultural exploration. The program created a supportive environment where students could build confidence, discipline, teamwork, and self-expression while developing their artistic skills. To ensure accessibility and full participation, the program also provided lunch, dance attire, and daily snacks for all participants.
$10,192 spent14% of program spendingFunds were used to take youth to outside programs to expose them to cultural events, ballets, musicals and recitals.
$2,820 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $74,649.
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.
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 $5k to $62k (+1172%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Pamela Oxendine
Executive director
Board chair
Shari Hubert
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $26k → $10k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 DANCE 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 DANCE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
56% 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 DANCE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 41% · 2021 100% · 2022 76% · 2023 96% — 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
40% of EMPOWER DANCE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
74% of EMPOWER DANCE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like EMPOWER DANCE FOUNDATION
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
72%
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 DANCE 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 DANCE FOUNDATION?
- EMPOWER DANCE FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,078 to it, the largest being THE MARY DUKE BIDDLE FOUNDATION MISSIONPOST PMB #101 ($46,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMPOWER DANCE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $203,078 in grants to EMPOWER DANCE FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMPOWER DANCE FOUNDATION?
- THE MARY DUKE BIDDLE FOUNDATION MISSIONPOST PMB #101 is the largest funder on record, with $46,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMPOWER DANCE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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