Empowerment Incorporated

Analysis

Empowerment Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Birmingham, AL. 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, Empowerment Incorporated reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.5m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $595k to $1.5m (+154%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 327%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Empowerment Incorporated sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 87th percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Blue Mountain Center of Meditation Inc ($1.5m), Park Playhouse Inc ($1.5m) and Laredo International Fair and Exposition ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $77k against liabilities of $193k, net assets of -$116k.