Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research

Analysis

Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research is a registered charity in United States, based in Fairfax, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2021, 5 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public and societal benefit, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. 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 Oversight Whistleblowers & Research reported income of $718k and spending of $1.0m, spending 146% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $462k to $718k (+55%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 128%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Florence Dibell Bartlette 01 21940 ($718k), Sartori Health Care Foundation ($718k) and North American Society for Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology ($718k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 1.4% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $378k. At year end it held assets of $184k against liabilities of $21k, net assets of $163k.