Mississippi · Nonprofit
EMPOWERED BY GRACE
EMPOWERED BY GRACE (Mississippi) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $0
What Empowered by Grace does
Mission
The organization includes community engagement and empowerment through outreach activities, education and the dissemination of resources and information.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Empowered by Grace (EBG) was able to award 11 continuing education grants to students in college and hosted a presentation luncheon of the scholarships.
$2,272 spentof which $2,272 as grants30% of program spendingEBG hosted a series of women's (4) forums during which lunch was served, materials distributed on health and wellness and speakers were brought in. The events were attended by 30-50 women, many returning from previous events.
$2,030 spent27% of program spendingEBG created and set up a booth on Blue Mountain College campus to distribute food, continuing education information and information on mental health support. Approximately 125 students stopped to gather food items and information.
$3,206 spent43% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $7,508.
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 $448k to $0 (−100%).
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.
5% of EMPOWERED BY GRACE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Derek Rakestraw
Chairman/President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BY GRACE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of EMPOWERED BY GRACE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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 BY GRACE's revenue fell 51% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like EMPOWERED BY GRACE
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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
34%
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 EMPOWERED BY GRACE: 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 BY GRACE?
- EMPOWERED BY GRACE (Mississippi) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EMPOWERED BY GRACE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,000 in grants to EMPOWERED BY GRACE.
- Who is the largest funder of EMPOWERED BY GRACE?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMPOWERED BY GRACE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 1 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