Empower Me Center

Analysis

Empower Me Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Lebanon, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2000, 26 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, Empower Me Center reported income of $1.8m and spending of $732k, leaving 60% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $392k to $1.8m (+362%), an average of +47% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 186%. Over the whole period it spent 65% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Empower Me Center sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include A Home Base for Transitioning Foster Youth Inc ($1.8m), Clarion Area Agency on Aging Inc ($1.8m) and Red Cedar Corp ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 84% and program service revenue 10% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $476k. At year end it held assets of $3.3m against liabilities of $221, net assets of $3.3m. It reported 10 employees.