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RCS EMPOWERS INC

RCS EMPOWERS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $485,188 to it, the largest being EPISPACE FOUNDATION ($230,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$6.5M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$485k
Net assets
$24M
8/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Rcs Empowers Inc does

Mission

The mission of rcs empowers, inc. Is to empower individuals with disabilities and special needs so that they may work, live, and function with dignity and respect.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Day services - this program provides adult day services and special need services to participants requiring assistance throughout the day.

    $1,059,525 spent$1,591,420 earned by the program
    24% of program spending
  2. Employment - this program provides businesses and industry the support and assistance needed to successfully employ people with disabilities.

    $809,219 spent$1,066,431 earned by the program
    19% of program spending
  3. North plant - this program performs subcontract work for businesses by employing participants to perform assembly, collating, shrink-wrapping, high-speed packaging, silk screening, boxing, and labeling.

    $700,486 spent$677,547 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  4. Packaging - this program purchases common household fasteners in bulk and then employs participants to package these items to the customer's specifications.

    $699,907 spent$1,036,104 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  5. Prevocational - this program provides vocational training, experience, and other activities to participants who do not desire to or are not ready to work in competitive community settings.

    $521,229 spent$780,196 earned by the program
    12% of program spending
  6. Birth to three - this program is committed to children under the age of three with development delays and disabilities and their families.

    $396,376 spent$589,910 earned by the program
    9% of program spending
  7. Food services - this program provides lunches for all participants.

    $147,469 spent$109,324 earned by the program
    3% of program spending

The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,334,211.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.3M) Expenses 100 ($6.7M) Net assets 100 ($17M)2018 Revenue 106 ($7.7M) Expenses 99 ($6.6M) Net assets 102 ($17M)2019 Revenue 91 ($6.6M) Expenses 101 ($6.7M) Net assets 104 ($18M)2020 Revenue 107 ($7.7M) Expenses 90 ($6.0M) Net assets 116 ($20M)2021 Revenue 114 ($8.3M) Expenses 80 ($5.3M) Net assets 135 ($23M)2022 Revenue 86 ($6.3M) Expenses 80 ($5.4M) Net assets 135 ($23M)2023 Revenue 80 ($5.8M) Expenses 85 ($5.7M) Net assets 138 ($23M)2024 Revenue 89 ($6.5M) Expenses 88 ($5.9M) Net assets 143 ($24M)
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Revenue (89)Expenses (88)Net assets (143)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $20M to $23M (+13%).

$21M
$21M
$20M
$23M
$24M
$24M
$24M
$25M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 1% · 2020 26% · 2021 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

3% of RCS EMPOWERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,632 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$593k
’17
$1.1M
’18
−$106k
’19
$1.7M
’20
$3.0M
’21
$893k
’22
$188k
’23
$557k
’24
9.0
months of
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

Martha Vandeleest

President and CEO

Board chair

Jon Rost

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2523222319192222
Joined·+3+1+5+1+0+5+1
No longer listed·5245021
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $58k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 RCS EMPOWERS 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

RCS EMPOWERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 52% · 2019 62% · 2020 40% · 2021 70% · 2022 95% · 2023 77% — 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

56% of RCS EMPOWERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

RCS EMPOWERS INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 2 states in all.

WI
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RCS EMPOWERS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve9.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 26%Fundraising 0%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

80%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Rehabilitation Center of Sheboygan Endowment Trust · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds RCS EMPOWERS INC?
RCS EMPOWERS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $485,188 to it, the largest being EPISPACE FOUNDATION ($230,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RCS EMPOWERS INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $485,188 in grants to RCS EMPOWERS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RCS EMPOWERS INC?
EPISPACE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RCS EMPOWERS 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.

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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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing