Massachusetts · Nonprofit
EMPOWER GRIEVING CHILDREN INC
EMPOWER GRIEVING CHILDREN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,754,860 to it, the largest being THE FOSTER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($725,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $844k
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $397k
What Empower Grieving Children Inc does
Mission
Organization provides support to children and young adults who have experienced the loss of a parent.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides support to children, teens and young adults (through age 24) who have experienced the death of a parent. The support comes in two forms: events to remind children they are not alone, and a unique mentor program where grieving children are paired with positive role models who have also experienced parent loss.
$766,514 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $766,514.
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 2021 to 2022, from $157k to $1.1M (+598%).
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: 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of EMPOWER GRIEVING CHILDREN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% 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.
Chief executive
Cara Belvin
CEO/presiden
Board chair
David Clayman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $13k → $261k.
10 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 GRIEVING CHILDREN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 GRIEVING CHILDREN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 GRIEVING CHILDREN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 77% · 2019 64% · 2020 47% · 2021 50% · 2022 38% · 2023 48% — 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
50% of EMPOWER GRIEVING CHILDREN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
EMPOWER GRIEVING CHILDREN INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $640k 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 GRIEVING CHILDREN INC has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like EMPOWER GRIEVING CHILDREN INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMPOWER GRIEVING CHILDREN INC: 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 GRIEVING CHILDREN INC?
- EMPOWER GRIEVING CHILDREN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,754,860 to it, the largest being THE FOSTER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($725,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMPOWER GRIEVING CHILDREN INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,754,860 in grants to EMPOWER GRIEVING CHILDREN INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMPOWER GRIEVING CHILDREN INC?
- THE FOSTER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $725,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMPOWER GRIEVING CHILDREN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 39 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing