Wisconsin · Nonprofit
ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC
ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,666,972 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,740,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Organizing Empowerment Fund Inc does
Mission
Organizing empowerment fund (oef) is organized to encourage everyday people across the country to become more civically engaged, that is, become more involved in the activities and decisions made in their communities that address social issues and promote quality of life. Oef provides support to organizations, and works with them to develop and implement relational organizing plans that fit into their larger mission, as well as provide them with the training they need to develop and apply core skills in their volunteers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We provided support in the form of staff, training, and technological solutions to community-based organizations and other 501(c)(3) non-profits working with poor and other underserved populations to encourage and support increased participation in voting. We expanded our mission to provide vital community outreach and education around important public issues like how to obtain a covid vaccine for those who were interested.we engaged in research projects to evaluate how to best engage in these underserved communities.
$3,666,694 spentof which $25,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,666,694.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $241k to $2.4M (+890%).
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 25% · 2022 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $25k → $3.8M.
6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND 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
ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC 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
78% 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 ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 61% · 2023 30% — 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 ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 25% 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
57% of ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND 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 $5.5M that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND 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 ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC?
- ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,666,972 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,740,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $12,666,972 in grants to ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,740,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 28 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing