Virginia · Nonprofit
RURAL EMPOWERMENT INC
RURAL EMPOWERMENT INC (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being Shunpike Charitable Foundation ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Rural Empowerment Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is the following: 1. Create jobs and economic development in rural and underserved communities by incentivizing people to obtain 21st-century skills and training them in technology, entrepreneurship, business, and specific vocations. 2. To create jobs and economic development mentioned above, develop relationships with the community, local non-profits, educational institutions, and industry as required.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Scholarships to Individuals
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $5k to $18k (+272%).
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.
100% of RURAL EMPOWERMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jayanth Challa
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of RURAL EMPOWERMENT 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.
Where its funders are
RURAL EMPOWERMENT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
RURAL EMPOWERMENT INC's revenue fell 84% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 employment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like RURAL 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RURAL EMPOWERMENT INC?
- RURAL EMPOWERMENT INC (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being Shunpike Charitable Foundation ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RURAL EMPOWERMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to RURAL EMPOWERMENT INC.
- Who is the largest funder of RURAL EMPOWERMENT INC?
- Shunpike Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RURAL EMPOWERMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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