Wisconsin · Nonprofit
ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC
ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,598,624 to it, the largest being FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION ($5,000,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Organizing Empowerment Project Inc does
Mission
Organizing empowerment project (oep) is organized to increase civic engagement through activities focused on expanding the electorate and public participation in issue advocacy to build power in diverse communities that translates to improved quality of life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Organizing empowerment provides support to an organization, by working with them to develop, write and implement a relational organizing plan that fits into their larger mission as well as provide them with training to develop and apply core skills in their volunteers.
$10,278,315 spentof which $1,159,111 as grants$1,000,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,278,315.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $2.4M to $5.5M (+131%).
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.
93% of ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Amanda Brink
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $150k → $350k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 PROJECT 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 PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 69%; 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 ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 78% · 2022 100% · 2023 71% — 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
ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 PROJECT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 152 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Organizing Empowerment PAC · exempt
- Empower Innovations Group Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT 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 PROJECT INC?
- ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,598,624 to it, the largest being FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION ($5,000,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $14,598,624 in grants to ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC?
- FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 15 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