North Carolina · Nonprofit
Empowered Parents in Community
Empowered Parents in Community (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $789,943 to it, the largest being MDC INC ($389,350). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $812k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $790k
- Net assets
- $726k
What Empowered Parents in Community does
Mission
To advocate for improved educational experiences through collective organizing and intentional engagement of parents/caregivers, ensuring students thrive and achieve better outcomes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
EPiCs Parent Engagement program equips families to become active partners in their childrens education. Through listening sessions, authentic engagement opportunities, parent education workshops, and in-school volunteer roles, parents build the knowledge and confidence to navigate the school system and advocate for stronger educational outcomes for their children. The program also provides targeted support to families of children with learning differences, helping them build capacity, access information, and advocate effectively within special education systems.
$196,213 spent$300,374 earned by the program37% of program spendingCircle of Hope provides peer support cohorts - separate Circles for mothers and fathers - that strengthen emotional wellness, family relationships, and community connection among parents and caregivers. Facilitated multi-week sessions build peer trust, communication skills, and leadership capacity, helping parents better navigate challenges at home and advocate for their children. Participants consistently report increased confidence in their relationships with their children and a strong sense of connection and belonging within the group.
$74,243 spent$113,655 earned by the program14% of program spendingEPiCs Early Childhood Education program promotes equitable access to high-quality early learning for our youngest and most vulnerable students. The program works to disrupt inequitable suspension and expulsion practices in early childcare and education settings, helping ensure that young children - particularly those most at risk of exclusionary discipline - remain engaged in learning environments that support their long-term success.
$259,849 spent$397,793 earned by the program49% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $530,305.
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.
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 $480k to $976k (+103%).
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: 2021 21% · 2022 4% · 2023 7% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Jovonia Lewis
Executive Director
Board chair
Vickie Miller
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $21k → $105k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Parents in Community’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
Empowered Parents in Community leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 Parents in Community.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 51% · 2023 56% — 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
40% of Empowered Parents in Community's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 43% 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
100% of Empowered Parents in Community's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like Empowered Parents in Community
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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 Empowered Parents in Community: 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 Parents in Community?
- Empowered Parents in Community (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $789,943 to it, the largest being MDC INC ($389,350). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Empowered Parents in Community have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $789,943 in grants to Empowered Parents in Community, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Empowered Parents in Community?
- MDC INC is the largest funder on record, with $389,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Empowered Parents in Community find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 14 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