Iowa · Nonprofit
EMPOWERING ABILITIES
EMPOWERING ABILITIES (Iowa) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,980,629 to it, the largest being THE PETERS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($590,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $41M
What Empowering Abilities does
Mission
Empowering Abilities is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to plan, establish, and operate programs which provide opportunities and assistance to persons with physical and intellectual disabilities in and around scott county, iowa.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Daily discovery west serves and assist individuals with disabilities to achieve employment outcomes in a sheltered environment or in the community by providing vocational rehabilitation and training. Number of individuals served: 137 enterprises is a work environment designed to provide individuals with disabilities an opportunity to have a job and earn a paycheck. Associates are hired as regular Empowering Abilities employees and are afforded the same benefits as all other part-time employees at Empowering Abilities. They complete work for local and regional companies, doing things like packaging, assembling, kitting and mailing. Number of individuals served: 31
$3,473,512 spent$1,821,875 earned by the program17% of program spendingEndeavor living residential services enable individuals with intellectual disabilities to achieve a more satisfactory quality of life and live as independently as possible within the community by providing instruction and training in daily living skills, personal and financial management, and other self sufficiency skills. Number of individuals served: 95
$6,403,859 spent$6,883,000 earned by the program32% of program spendingThe residential center, a licensed intermediate care facility for the intellectually disabled (icf/id), provide intensive, therapeutic services to individuals with severe and multiple disabilities.number of individuals served: 58
$7,773,514 spent$8,149,890 earned by the program39% of program spendingDaily discovery east serves and assists persons with severe, multiple disabilities to live and work in the least restrictive environment by providing training in the areas of daily living skills, work skills, and accessing community resources.number of indiviuals served: 116
$2,295,155 spent$2,212,129 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,946,040.
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 2020 to 2021, from $30M to $35M (+16%).
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 18% · 2022 4% · 2023 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of EMPOWERING ABILITIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Jeff Hassel
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $139k → $189k.
8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $207k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Scott County Regional Authority). These are real filings, and they are not money EMPOWERING ABILITIES raised.
From the IRS filings of EMPOWERING ABILITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
EMPOWERING ABILITIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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 EMPOWERING ABILITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 49% · 2019 29% · 2020 33% · 2021 16% · 2022 21% · 2023 26% — 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
48% of EMPOWERING ABILITIES'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
EMPOWERING ABILITIES draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $430k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
EMPOWERING ABILITIES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding EMPOWERING ABILITIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- Department of Defense$3k
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 EMPOWERING ABILITIES
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hdc Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMPOWERING ABILITIES: 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 EMPOWERING ABILITIES?
- EMPOWERING ABILITIES (Iowa) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,980,629 to it, the largest being THE PETERS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($590,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMPOWERING ABILITIES have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,980,629 in grants to EMPOWERING ABILITIES, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMPOWERING ABILITIES?
- THE PETERS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $590,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMPOWERING ABILITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 34 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