California · Nonprofit
Empower Yolo Inc
Empower Yolo Inc (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,607,904 to it, the largest being SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT ($1,499,829). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Empower Yolo Inc does
Mission
Empoweryolo'smissionistopromotesafe,healthy,andresilientcommunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Victim Services and Support: Empower Yolo provides comprehensive confidential services for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and other forms of interpersonal violence, including 24-hour crisis response, emergency shelter, legal advocacy, safety planning, counseling, peer support, accompaniment, and case management. In 2025, 211 survivors of abuse, including 103 children, received safe shelter for 8,512 bed nights. The 24-hour crisis line received 603 calls totaling 10,589 minutes. The Sexual Assault Response Team provided accompaniment, advocacy, and/or support services to 268 sexual assault survivors, including 133 children. Legal advocates assisted 206 survivors with 498 restraining orders and provided court accompaniment to 147 clients 282 times. Empower Yolo also provided 7,458 peer counseling, therapy, and support group sessions to 1,639 clients (1,429 adults and 210 children), and support groups assisted 45 adults.
$1,749,902 spent59% of program spendingResource Center and Community Support: Empower Yolos resource centers provide vital support services to individuals and families throughout the county, including emergency clothing and hygiene supplies, case management, tax assistance, and access to health, housing, and financial resources. The centers serve as safe and welcoming spaces where clients can receive information, referrals, and direct support tailored to their individual needs. In 2025, 1,659 clients used the clothing closet 6,345 times. Empower Yolo also provided income tax assistance to 368 taxpayers who received $841,156 in federal and state refunds. Across the organization, volunteers provided 22,451 hours of service.
$580,534 spent19% of program spendingYouth Services: Empower Yolos ASSETs (After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens) program partners with schools and the broader community to provide academic support, enrichment, and safe opportunities for high school students after school, on weekends, during summer sessions, and throughout vacation periods. The program builds meaningful connections with youth and families while supporting life skills, leadership development, and personal growth. In 2025, 35,419 student attendances were recorded over 228 days of service through the ASSETs program.
$496,045 spent17% of program spendingHousing Support and Advocacy: Empower Yolo provides housing advocacy and related support to help individuals and families seek, obtain, and maintain safe and stable housing. Services include individualized housing-focused case management, advocacy, safety planning, assistance navigating housing barriers, and connections to landlords and community resources. In 2025, 660 clients received housing advocacy services.
$155,084 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,981,565.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.1M to $2.5M (+23%).
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: 2017 82% · 2018 84% · 2019 85% · 2020 73% · 2021 69% · 2022 81% · 2024 78% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Empower Yolo Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Cathy Farman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $55k → $133k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Yolo Inc’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 Yolo Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 Yolo Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 64% · 2019 28% · 2020 87% · 2021 41% · 2022 23% · 2023 23% — 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
33% of Empower Yolo Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
91% of Empower Yolo Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $392k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Yolo Inc's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Empower Yolo Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $212k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$212k
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 Yolo 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Empower Yolo 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 Yolo Inc?
- Empower Yolo Inc (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,607,904 to it, the largest being SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT ($1,499,829). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Empower Yolo Inc have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,607,904 in grants to Empower Yolo Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Empower Yolo Inc?
- SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT is the largest funder on record, with $1,499,829 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Empower Yolo Inc 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 27 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