Empowerment Center

Analysis

Empowerment Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Reno, NV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 2022, Empowerment Center reported income of $2.3m and spending of $2.1m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $2.9m to $2.3m (-20%), an average of -7.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 70% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Empowerment Center sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within NV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Broadway Filmore Neighborhood Housing Services Inc ($2.3m), Feeding Kentucky Inc ($2.3m) and Guiding Harbor ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 27% and program service revenue 73% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $109k (5.2% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $4.5m against liabilities of $698k, net assets of $3.8m. It reported 20 employees.