Illinois · Nonprofit
EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES INC
EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $395,778 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($158,680). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $396k
- Net assets
- $17M
What Empowering People Inspiring Capabilities Inc does
Mission
To enrich the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential services - ep!c provides a full range of residential options for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities who are part of the illinois department of human services community integrated living arrangement (cila) program. During the year ep!c served 21 people living in 2 apartment settings, 79 living in host family arrangements, and 70 living in 12 specialized group homes. Each resident has an individualized service plan that outlines the support and services they need in order to increase their self-sufficiency. Particular emphasis is placed on developing daily living, community integration, and economic self-sufficiency skills.
$15,716,763 spentof which $35,399 as grants$16,223,670 earned by the program72% of program spendingEducational services - ep!c provides educational services for individuals with disabilities to learn and advance their daily living skills such as communication, financial, socialization, academic, and vocational skills. All individuals have access to a technology center that provides adaptive technology for those who need it and a computer learning lab. An art studio allows people to demonstrate their creativity as they create art that they can sell. Unique programming is provided to senior citizens that is operated much like one would find in any senior citizen center. Over 200 people attended ep!c's educational services programs.
$3,623,333 spent$3,853,032 earned by the program17% of program spendingEmployment services - the rate of employment for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities is well below the rate for the overall population. Ep!c aims to correct that imbalance by helping people find and maintain jobs. After a person completes a suite of pre-employment workshops, ep!c works with them to find community employment in a role they are interested in. Ep!c provides job coaching to the individual and their employer so that they can maintain their position and advance if they would like to. 52 people found community employment due to ep!c's services this year, and an additional 100+ people earned paychecks by working at ep!c based jobs.
$2,529,976 spent$1,052,108 earned by the program12% of program spendingSupport services and other
$1,844,256 earned by the program
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,870,072.
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 2021 to 2022, from $13M to $16M (+26%).
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 3% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 15% · 2022 6% · 2023 5% · 2024 6% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% 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.
Chief executive
Kim Cornwell
President/CEO
Board chair
Lisa Laconte
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $31k → $18k.
7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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: $999k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Epc Foundation of Central Illinois Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES 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
EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 77% · 2019 39% · 2020 52% · 2021 43% · 2023 56% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
62% of EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES INC'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. Of the $149k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $247k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES INC has grown faster than half of the 274 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Parc Developmental Homes Inc · exempt
- Parc Residential Options Inc · exempt
- Parc Community Homes Inc · exempt
- Parc Apartments Project Inc · exempt
- Epc Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES INC?
- EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $395,778 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($158,680). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $395,778 in grants to EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $158,680 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING CAPABILITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 13 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