Community Empowerment Resources

Analysis

Community Empowerment Resources is a registered charity in United States, based in Honolulu, HI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Community Empowerment Resources reported income of $4.8m and spending of $5.7m, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $3.5m to $4.8m (+36%), an average of +8.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 69%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Community Empowerment Resources sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within HI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Safe Harbor Community Center ($4.8m), Daystar for Medically Fragile Children Inc ($4.8m) and Italian American Civil Rights League Canarsie Inc ($4.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% and program service revenue 14% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $274k (4.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.9m. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $8,493, net assets of $2.1m. It reported 105 employees.