Green Empowerment

Analysis

Green Empowerment is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general 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, Green Empowerment reported income of $2.8m and spending of $2.6m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.0m to $2.8m (+179%), an average of +29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Green Empowerment sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kevin & Brittany Kisner Foundation ($2.8m), Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research ($2.8m) and Havasu Community Health Foundation ($2.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% and program service revenue 1.3% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $615k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $691k, net assets of $733k. It reported 10 employees.