Massachusetts · Nonprofit
EMPOWERED AND DEDICATED TO EDIFY THE NATION INC
EMPOWERED AND DEDICATED TO EDIFY THE NATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $523,050 to it, the largest being YAWKEY FOUNDATION II ($125,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $232k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $523k
- Net assets
- $92k
What Empowered and Dedicated to Edify the Nation Inc does
Mission
Helping families permanently escape homelessness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To help youth and families find solutions to real-life barriers backed by asset-building programs, evidence-based resources, and high-impact strategies.this charity is designed to help newly arrived immigrants integrate into american society
$193,510 spent$231,724 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $193,510.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $191k to $109k (−43%).
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: 2022 64% · 2023 73% · 2024 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of EMPOWERED AND DEDICATED TO EDIFY THE NATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Jehu Leconte
CEO and exec director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $134k → $76k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 EMPOWERED AND DEDICATED TO EDIFY THE NATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
EMPOWERED AND DEDICATED TO EDIFY THE NATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
55% 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 EMPOWERED AND DEDICATED TO EDIFY THE NATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 41% · 2023 66% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of EMPOWERED AND DEDICATED TO EDIFY THE NATION INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
EMPOWERED AND DEDICATED TO EDIFY THE NATION INC's revenue fell 23% between 2022 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like EMPOWERED AND DEDICATED TO EDIFY THE NATION 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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMPOWERED AND DEDICATED TO EDIFY THE NATION 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 EMPOWERED AND DEDICATED TO EDIFY THE NATION INC?
- EMPOWERED AND DEDICATED TO EDIFY THE NATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $523,050 to it, the largest being YAWKEY FOUNDATION II ($125,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMPOWERED AND DEDICATED TO EDIFY THE NATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $523,050 in grants to EMPOWERED AND DEDICATED TO EDIFY THE NATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMPOWERED AND DEDICATED TO EDIFY THE NATION INC?
- YAWKEY FOUNDATION II is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMPOWERED AND DEDICATED TO EDIFY THE NATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 8 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