Empowering Gardens Inc

Analysis

Empowering Gardens Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Forest Park, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Empowering Gardens Inc reported income of $192k and spending of $200k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $156k to $192k (+23%), an average of +5.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Empowering Gardens Inc sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 53rd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oxford Memorial Library ($192k), The Dutch School Silicon Valley ($192k) and Millbrook Central School District Educational Foundation Inc ($192k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 66% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $54k (27% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $428k against liabilities of $268k, net assets of $160k. It reported 14 employees.