Wisconsin · Nonprofit
EMPOWHER Inc
EMPOWHER Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,663 to it, the largest being TRADESFUTURES ($207,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
EMPOWHER Inc's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Tom Joyner Foundation Incshared funders
- Mary's Penceportfolio match
- Wbd Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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: 2023 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of EMPOWHER Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $193k.
From the IRS filings of EMPOWHER 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
EMPOWHER Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 EMPOWHER Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 86% — 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.
Where its funders are
EMPOWHER Inc draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Tom Joyner Foundation Incshared fundersTX · backs 4 organizations that share your funders
- Mary's Penceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wbd Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Central States Regional Council of Carpentersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A New Way of Life Reentry Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mars Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Voices Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Southern Communities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Paul S Symchych Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like EMPOWHER Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMPOWHER 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds EMPOWHER Inc?
- EMPOWHER Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,663 to it, the largest being TRADESFUTURES ($207,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMPOWHER Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $244,663 in grants to EMPOWHER Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMPOWHER Inc?
- TRADESFUTURES is the largest funder on record, with $207,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMPOWHER Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing