California · Nonprofit
FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT
FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,111,681 to it, the largest being HOMEFREE USA INC ($710,487). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $852k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Faith and Community Empowerment does
Mission
Faith and Community Empowerment (face)'s mission is to advance the asian american community's participation, contribution, and influence through faith and community partnerships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Homeownership program:as a hud-approved housing counseling agency, face assists first-time homebuyers in their homeownership process through homebuyer education, financial literacy, and counseling. Prospective homeowners learn about government down payment assistance programs, escrow, and related topics that will equip them to purchase a home and be an informed, smart buyer. We provide an 8- hour class certificate for those who sign up for our homebuyer education class. To date, face has connected over 16,000 potential buyers with over $4 million in down payment and other assistance, our 27th homeownership fair. It had 1,000 attendees from nine counties and 183 cities. Additionally, face provides existing homeowners with mortgage relief and foreclosure prevention counseling, saving over $93 million in mortgages from going into foreclosure.
$248,739 spent$468,538 earned by the program64% of program spendingChurch & non-profit leadership & advocacy trainingc2 leadership institute: church & non-profit leadershipc2 leadership institute is a transformative 15- week leadership program that empowers leaders and awakens them to new possibilities and sustainability for their ministries by strengthening church and community partnerships in community development through community engagement and advocacy. Through the c2 leadership institute, c2 fellows gain the tools, skills and relationships to create success and sustainability in their community development initiatives. Over the course of the institute, each fellow launches or strengthens a community project. Fellows are mentored by various leaders, including funders, government officials, media, faith leaders and community development experts. Fellows develop their projects using the skills they attain such as fundraising, media and government relations, partnership building, networking, financial literacy, grant writing, eventing, advocacy, program development, outreach strategies, and community needs assessments. Finally, fellows receive ongoing one on one technical assistance to ensure successful implementation of their project. To date…
$20,410 spent$37,700 earned by the program5% of program spendingAdvocacy/race relationsface has been a strong advocate in lifting up the aapi and faith voice for those who are underserved and voiceless on numerous issues locally and nationally. Some of the areas where face is engaging includes housing & homeownership, immigration reform, electric cars/clean energy, peace on the korean peninsula, and an inclusive ethnic curriculum, amongst others. Face has also hosted many convenings with government/corporate decision makers and stakeholders in the community to facilitate partnerships that would address challenges faced by the community. Some past convenings have included freddie mac, sba, metro ceo, lapd, lahsa, various elected officials, white house, samhsa, hud, us. Department of labor secretary, amongst others. In addition, face hosted a korean american roundtable on faith and mental health with uci and korean american faith leaders, community advocates, scholars and nonprofit leaders affordable housing: face's affordable housing initiative empowers and educates churches on how to develop affordable housing units. Face is walking with churches and connecting them to the right organizations and resources to build affordable housing on their…
$120,682 spent$236,000 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $389,831.
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 2022 to 2023, from $783k to $1.4M (+74%).
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: 2018 19% · 2019 8% · 2020 36% · 2021 37% · 2022 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Hyepin Im
President/CEO
Board chair
Edward Yen
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $15k → $599k.
5 of 14 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.
From the IRS filings of FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT’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
FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 61% · 2022 66% · 2023 75% — 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
25% of FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $245k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT: 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 FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT?
- FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,111,681 to it, the largest being HOMEFREE USA INC ($710,487). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,111,681 in grants to FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT?
- HOMEFREE USA INC is the largest funder on record, with $710,487 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAITH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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