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EMPOWER TEHAMA

EMPOWER TEHAMA (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,043,566 to it, the largest being WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA ($453,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.4M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$3.9M
7/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Empower Tehama does

Mission

To promote healthy relationship and social change in the community through education, intervention, and responsive services designed to inspire personal transformation.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Domestic violence assistance program - in 2025, Empower Tehama provided domestic violence assistance services, including crisis intervention, advocacy, peer counseling, legal assistance, court and mediation accompaniment, access to a 24/7 crisis hotline support groups, emergency financial assistance and access to housing services to a total of 1,035 adult victims of domestic violence, over half of whom have at least one child in their care. Domestic violence assistance program services are provided at no cost to participants.

    $2,069,545 spent$179,115 earned by the program
    49% of program spending
  2. Housing program- Empower Tehamas comprehensive housing program consists of emergency shelter, facility-based transitional housing, and a rental assistance program that assists individuals and households with expenses related to obtaining and maintaining safe, permanent housing. In 2025, Empower Tehama provided an 4,694 emergency shelter bednights. Of these 156 clients housed, 79 were households consisting of 79 adults and 76 children that were housed in et's emergency shelter/motel shelter. Of these clients who exited, 77% were able to obtain reliable, permanent housing. In 2025, Empower Tehama provided an average of 5,112 transitional housing bednights. Of these clients, 10 households made up of 36 adults and 26 children were housed in et's onsite transitional housing units. All other households received rental assistance in offsite housing.

    $1,213,222 spent
    29% of program spending
  3. Counseling program - Empower Tehama provides individual counseling services to adult and child victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child sexual abuse, and other violent crimes as well as to youth who have a history with the criminal legal system. In 2025, Empower Tehama clinical staff provided 2,928 counseling sessions for adults and children in tehama county. All counseling program services are provided by licensed or associate-level marriage and family therapists or masters level mft and msw students under the supervision of Empower Tehamas clinical director, a licensed clinical social worker and certified clinical supervisor. Counseling program services are provided at no cost to participants.

    $941,220 spent
    22% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,223,987.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($3.1M)2018 Revenue 81 ($2.5M) Expenses 175 ($2.4M) Net assets 103 ($3.2M)2019 Revenue 94 ($3.0M) Expenses 204 ($2.8M) Net assets 121 ($3.8M)2020 Revenue 117 ($3.7M) Expenses 259 ($3.5M) Net assets 121 ($3.8M)2021 Revenue 158 ($5.0M) Expenses 338 ($4.6M) Net assets 132 ($4.1M)2022 Revenue 176 ($5.5M) Expenses 400 ($5.5M) Net assets 134 ($4.2M)2023 Revenue 174 ($5.5M) Expenses 406 ($5.5M) Net assets 132 ($4.1M)2024 Revenue 120 ($3.8M) Expenses 296 ($4.1M) Net assets 123 ($3.9M)2025 Revenue 140 ($4.4M) Expenses 321 ($4.4M) Net assets 124 ($3.9M)
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Revenue (140)Expenses (321)Net assets (124)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 2019 to 2020, from $3.9M to $5.3M (+38%).

$3.6M
$3.4M
$3.9M
$5.3M
$5.4M
$5.8M
$5.5M
$4.9M
$4.8M
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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.

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2018
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2021
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 96% · 2018 95% · 2019 95% · 2020 81% · 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 96% · 2024 92% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of EMPOWER TEHAMA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,392 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.8M
’17
$145k
’18
$185k
’19
$136k
’20
$362k
’21
$69k
’22
−$75k
’23
−$267k
’24
$3k
’25
2.8
months of
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.

Board chair

Dave Greer

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed12121269991016
Joined·+0+0+2+4+1+0+2+7
No longer listed·00811011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $32k → $222k.

4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 TEHAMA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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 TEHAMA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

95% 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 TEHAMA.

43%
largest funder
70%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 68% · 2019 100% · 2020 72% · 2021 46% · 2022 68% · 2023 97% — 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

50% of EMPOWER TEHAMA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

82% of EMPOWER TEHAMA's grant income comes from California funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $137k 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 TEHAMA's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve2.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding EMPOWER TEHAMA receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record — $2.1M federal, $8k state.

Federal$2.1M
grants $2.1Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$1.7M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$380k
State$8k
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By state
  • FL$6k
  • OR$2k

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 TEHAMA

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMPOWER TEHAMA: 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 TEHAMA?
EMPOWER TEHAMA (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,043,566 to it, the largest being WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA ($453,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EMPOWER TEHAMA have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,043,566 in grants to EMPOWER TEHAMA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EMPOWER TEHAMA?
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA is the largest funder on record, with $453,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EMPOWER TEHAMA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 18 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