Empowering Communities-Helping Ourselves

Analysis

Empowering Communities-Helping Ourselves is a registered charity in United States, based in Montgomery, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Empowering Communities-Helping Ourselves reported income of $162k and spending of $149k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $221k to $162k (-27%), an average of -7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 166%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Empowering Communities-Helping Ourselves sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 50th percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Edgebrook School Foundation ($162k), Cromed-Usa ($162k) and The Epic Foundation Inc ($162k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $27k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $27k.