Empower Mali

Analysis

Empower Mali is a registered charity in United States, based in Highland, UT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, Empower Mali reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.2m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $430k to $1.2m (+183%), an average of +30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 146%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Empower Mali sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 80th percentile within UT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Resound Corporation ($1.2m), Serve Hope International ($1.2m) and Syrian Community Network Inc ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. It paid $64k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $193k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $193k.