Connecticut · Nonprofit
EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK
EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK (Connecticut) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,573,054 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($530,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $588k
What Empower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network does
Mission
Empower Her Network DBA Empowered Network (EHN) launched its survivor-centered, trauma-informed program in 2017 to address a national gap in services identified by immediate aftercare providers: most trafficking survivors exhaust resources with systemic barriers standing in the way of a realistic economic alternative, putting them at high risk of further exploitation, experiencing homelessness, and/or remaining in the service cycle their entire lives. Empower Her Network collaborates with trafficking survivors over 12 to 18 months to achieve their economic freedom by removing housing barriers, providing advocacy, financing education, and uncovering career paths. Every survivor who achieves fiscal independence is in a much better position to protect their children, ending generational cycles of poverty and exploitation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Empower Her Network,Inc. DBA Empowered Network, ended 2025 with 55 partners, 148 survivors on an ACTIVE empowerment plan, and 107 who completed the 12 month program. In 2025, the average annual wage increase went from $25,024 to $37,308. That's a $12,284 increase in salary in 12 months! Every survivor who builds lasting economic power creates a pathway for families to move beyond cycles of poverty and exploitation.
$1,862,065 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,862,065.
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 $468k to $675k (+44%).
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: 2021 4% · 2022 0% · 2023 2% · 2024 10% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Kristy Norbert
Executive director
Board chair
Chetana Gowda
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 23 funders, grant income rose $10k → $1.0M.
16 of 51 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 HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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 HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2019 90% · 2020 44% · 2021 57% · 2022 27% · 2023 43% — 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
60% of EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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 HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.4M
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 HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK?
- EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK (Connecticut) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,573,054 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($530,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $3,573,054 in grants to EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK?
- NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $530,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 51 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