California · Nonprofit
Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc
Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,339,146 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($528,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $-273058
What Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc does
Mission
To utilize a holistic approach to provide viable education and vocational programs, resources, and options to build economic sustainability for traditionally marginalized and/or at risk youth, families, and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our Constructing Success Academy program provides training, industry-recognized certificates, and placement in the construction/building trades field.
$1,612,268 spentof which $265 as grants49% of program spendingOur CSI / STOP program provides resources to support decreased violence in and around the City of Compton.
$597,402 spent18% of program spendingOur educational / YouthBuild program educates youth ages 16-24 who have been pushed out of traditional education to obtain an accredited high school diploma.
$596,789 spent$3,586 earned by the program18% of program spendingOur Project Hearts program provides training and education on what healthy relationships should be.
$471,675 spent14% of program spendingOur Impactful Bites program provides training and industry-recognized certificates and placement in the hospitality and culinary arts fields.
$40,554 spent$4,163 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,318,688.
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 $161k to $826k (+415%).
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 10% · 2022 7% · 2023 80% · 2024 79% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Dr Stefanie Holzman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $52k → $195k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 13 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
Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 81%; 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 Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 99% · 2019 61% · 2020 84% · 2021 59% · 2022 51% · 2023 48% — 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
50% of Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $557k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.4M on record.
- Department of Labor$4.7M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.7M
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 Entrenous Community Empowerment 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Entrenous Community Empowerment 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc?
- Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,339,146 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($528,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,339,146 in grants to Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $528,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Entrenous Community Empowerment Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 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