Washington · Nonprofit
Empower Through Health
Empower Through Health (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,757 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($48,290). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $324k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $61k
- Net assets
- $219k
What Empower Through Health does
Mission
Empower Through Health is dedicated to improving public health and advancing health equity in underserved communities. We achieve this by supporting healthcare services conducting research to develop effective health interventions and offering educational programs to strengthen capacity and promote sustainable health outcomes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Supporting clinical activities at Empower Through Health-Ugandas health center in Mpunde Uganda. ETH-Uganda a subsidiary of organization of Empower Through Health has been recognized as an NGO by the Ugandan government and is directly responsible for executing the operation of the Mpunde Health Center. ETH-U hires the necessary medical professionals researchers and staff required for said execution. ETHs role in oversight involves raising and providing necessary funds to ETH-U to carry forward its role recruiting students and researchers to shadow and volunteer at the health center and approving decisions made by ETH-U as they hire medical professionals and purchase the necessary items required to run the health center.
$40,263 spent19% of program spendingTraining American and Ugandan predoctoral and doctoral students in field research including qualitative and quantitative methods. They also become exposed to intercultural learning. Through these programs we develop healthcare interventions to improve physical and mental health of vulnerable populations.
$74,316 spent$140,757 earned by the program35% of program spendingDeveloping and constructing a primary school making reusable pads for girls in school
$60,088 spent$60,753 earned by the program28% of program spendingOther community research activities to improve healthcare
$7,155 spent3% of program spendingAdministrative costs including office personnel capacity building
$31,230 spent15% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $213,052.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $100k to $220k (+120%).
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.
28% of Empower Through Health’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Yang Jae Lee
Chairperson and Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $9k → $6k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 Through Health’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 Through Health leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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 Through Health.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
95% of Empower Through Health'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. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k 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.
Against its field
Empower Through Health runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Empower Through Health
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 Through Health: 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 Through Health?
- Empower Through Health (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,757 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($48,290). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Empower Through Health have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $60,757 in grants to Empower Through Health, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Empower Through Health?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $48,290 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Empower Through Health find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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