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Empowering American Communities

Chehalis, WA · EIN 93-1868288. Reported 61 grants totalling $2,911,399 to 55 organizations across tax years 2023-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.

55organizations funded
$25,000median reported grant
$2,911,399granted, 2023-2025
18%of grantees funded again the next year
18%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Empowering American Communities, by its IRS classification it provides support services within youth development (NTEE O19).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 55 distinct organizations, with 18% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 18% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $17,640 and $60,000; the smallest was $1,425 and the largest $250,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Under $5,000
6 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
16 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
10 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
14 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
10 grants
$250,000 Or More
1 grant

20 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $1,293,980 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
The Chehalis FoundationChehalis, WA$518,516432025
Mass General Brigham IncorporatedSomerville, MA$250,000112025
Kaizen Adaptive Training LLCVirginia Bch, VA$150,000222024
Christ the King AcademyCentralia, WA$131,205112025
Outer Banks Relief Foundation IncNags Head, NC$125,000112025
Recovery for the City International IncVirginia Bch, VA$125,000112025
All Hands and Hearts Smart Response IncMattapoisett, MA$100,000112024
Mikeroweworks FoundationLos Angeles, CA$100,000112024
Young LifeColorado Spgs, CO$100,000112024
Lakeside Booster ClubNine Mile Fls, WA$85,000112024
Centralia College FoundationCentralia, WA$75,000112024
Pin MinistryVirginia Beach, VA$75,000112025
Jk FoundationChesapeake, VA$60,000112024
First Church of the Nazarene Centralia WashingtonCentralia, WA$57,075222024
Love Inc Love in the Name of ChristJenison, MI$50,925112024
Battle Buddy Response Team IncMartinsburg, WV$50,000112025
Circle of Empowerment IncGrafton, WI$50,000112024
Life Services of SpokaneSpokane, WA$50,000112024
Path of Hope RescueSpokane, WA$50,000112025
Reinhardt Movement IncMyrtle Beach, SC$50,000112024
Rise Up Kids International IncTequesta, FL$50,000112025
Spokanimal C a R ESpokane, WA$50,000112024
Christian Veterinary Mission FoundationLynnwood, WA$41,750222025
Jonah ProjectSpokane, WA$35,000112024
National Institute of Family and Life AdvocatesFredericksburg, VA$35,000112024
Rhode Islanders Sponsoring EducationProvidence, RI$32,350112024
Strength and Honor Mentoring and TutoringFlorissant, MO$26,250112024
Animal PadLa Mesa, CA$25,000112024
Baja Street DogsLos Angeles, CA$25,000112024
Best Friends Animal SocietyKanab, UT$25,000112025
Shelter Street DogsWhittier, CA$25,000112025
Shriners Hospitals for ChildrenTampa, FL$25,000112023
Tofus Dream WorldLos Angeles, CA$23,520112024
Building Homes for Heroes IncIsland Park, NY$22,339112023
Bethel Church of the Assemblies of GodChehalis, WA$22,075112023
Pacific Northwest Bulldog RescueMcminnville, OR$21,750112024
Possibilities Womens CenterCentralia, WA$21,500112024
Boys & Girls Club of Lewis CountyChehalis, WA$20,000112023
Meals on Wheels AmericaArlington, VA$17,640112024
Washington Humane Society the Society for the Prevention ofWashington, DC$17,640112024
March for LifeWashington, DC$12,892112024
How HouseBoston, MA$11,350112025
San Francisco Ballet AssociationSan Francisco, CA$10,183112024
Big Dog Ranch Rescue IncLxhtchee Grvs, FL$10,000112023
Darlington County Humane Society IncHartsville, SC$10,000112023
Ligonier Ministries IncSanford, FL$6,538112024
Brooklyn Botanic Garden CorporationBrooklyn, NY$6,413112024
New York UniversityNew York, NY$6,413112024
Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative IncHaskensack, NJ$5,000112023
United States Catholic ConferencePhoenix, AZ$3,900112025
St Jude Childrens Research Hospital IncMemphis, TN$3,200112025
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers FoundationStaten Island, NY$3,200112025
International Disaster Emergency Service IncNoblesville, IN$3,175112025
Johnson UniversityKnoxville, TN$3,175112025
San Jose Childrens Discovery MuseumSan Jose, CA$1,425112025

4 of 55 (7%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 51 of 55 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Animal Welfare
12 orgs
Health Care
7 orgs
Education
5 orgs
Human Services
5 orgs
Youth Development
3 orgs
International Affairs
3 orgs
Mental Health
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202310$261,489$22,075
202431$1,355,930$35,000
202520$1,293,980$37,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

40% of its giving went to organizations in Washington. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Washington
$1.2M
Virginia
$463K
Massachusetts
$361K
California
$210K
North Carolina
$125K
Colorado
$100K
Florida
$92K
South Carolina
$60K

Down to the city

Chehalis, WA
$561K
Centralia, WA
$285K
Virginia Bch, VA
$275K
Somerville, MA
$250K
Spokane, WA
$185K
Los Angeles, CA
$149K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund27 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc25 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc24 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program18 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc14 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc13 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Washington.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Empowering American Communities's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2023-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 226 Carroll Way, Chehalis, WA, 98532.

EIN 93-1868288 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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