Empowered 4 Life Foundation

Analysis

Empowered 4 Life Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Inglewood, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2022, 4 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, 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 2023, Empowered 4 Life Foundation reported income of $1.9m and spending of $1.9m, spending 100% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2017 to December 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $1.9m (+29%), an average of +5.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 120%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Empowered 4 Life Foundation sits at the 83rd 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 CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kosciusko County Shelter for Abuse Inc ($1.9m), Ecology Action of the Mid Peninsula ($1.9m) and Economic Mobility Corporation ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $633k. At year end it held assets of $803k against liabilities of $748k, net assets of $54k. It reported 20 employees.