North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND
THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND (North Carolina) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,016,682 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC ($567,250). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $757k
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What The Community Empowerment Fund does
Mission
To cultivate opportunities, assets, and communities that support the alleviation of homelessness and poverty.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Advocate program:the advocate program connects families and household members with assertive support and innovative financial tools to help them achieve their self-determined goals. Specific outcomes include assisting individuals in gaining employment and benefits, and supporting households in making successful transitions from homelessness.
$623,185 spent$1,000 earned by the program89% of program spendingSavings program:the savings program enables homeless and near-homeless individuals to work toward personal savings goals by providing goal-oriented matched savings accounts and personalized money management assistance. The program also offers financial coaching, job readiness training, and relationship-based support to help low-income individuals achieve greater financial stability.
$73,144 spent11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $696,329.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $2.4M (+87%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 12% · 2021 23% · 2022 2% · 2023 8% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Donna Carrington
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $103k → $618k.
12 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 funders by total. 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
THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
67% 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 THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 29% · 2019 27% · 2020 31% · 2021 23% · 2022 29% · 2023 34% — broadly stable.
“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
55% of THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
81% of THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND: 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 THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND?
- THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND (North Carolina) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,016,682 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC ($567,250). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $3,016,682 in grants to THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND?
- UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC is the largest funder on record, with $567,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 43 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