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.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Empowering American Communities, by its IRS classification it provides support services within youth development (NTEE O19).
- 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.
- 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.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Chehalis Foundation | Chehalis, WA | $518,516 | 4 | 3 | 2025 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Kaizen Adaptive Training LLC | Virginia Bch, VA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Christ the King Academy | Centralia, WA | $131,205 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Outer Banks Relief Foundation Inc | Nags Head, NC | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Recovery for the City International Inc | Virginia Bch, VA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc | Mattapoisett, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mikeroweworks Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Life | Colorado Spgs, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lakeside Booster Club | Nine Mile Fls, WA | $85,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Centralia College Foundation | Centralia, WA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pin Ministry | Virginia Beach, VA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jk Foundation | Chesapeake, VA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| First Church of the Nazarene Centralia Washington | Centralia, WA | $57,075 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Love Inc Love in the Name of Christ | Jenison, MI | $50,925 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Battle Buddy Response Team Inc | Martinsburg, WV | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Circle of Empowerment Inc | Grafton, WI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Life Services of Spokane | Spokane, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Path of Hope Rescue | Spokane, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Reinhardt Movement Inc | Myrtle Beach, SC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rise Up Kids International Inc | Tequesta, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Spokanimal C a R E | Spokane, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Christian Veterinary Mission Foundation | Lynnwood, WA | $41,750 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Jonah Project | Spokane, WA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Institute of Family and Life Advocates | Fredericksburg, VA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education | Providence, RI | $32,350 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Strength and Honor Mentoring and Tutoring | Florissant, MO | $26,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Animal Pad | La Mesa, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baja Street Dogs | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Best Friends Animal Society | Kanab, UT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Shelter Street Dogs | Whittier, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | Tampa, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tofus Dream World | Los Angeles, CA | $23,520 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Building Homes for Heroes Inc | Island Park, NY | $22,339 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bethel Church of the Assemblies of God | Chehalis, WA | $22,075 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pacific Northwest Bulldog Rescue | Mcminnville, OR | $21,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Possibilities Womens Center | Centralia, WA | $21,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lewis County | Chehalis, WA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Meals on Wheels America | Arlington, VA | $17,640 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Washington Humane Society the Society for the Prevention of | Washington, DC | $17,640 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| March for Life | Washington, DC | $12,892 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| How House | Boston, MA | $11,350 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $10,183 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc | Lxhtchee Grvs, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Darlington County Humane Society Inc | Hartsville, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ligonier Ministries Inc | Sanford, FL | $6,538 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation | Brooklyn, NY | $6,413 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $6,413 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative Inc | Haskensack, NJ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United States Catholic Conference | Phoenix, AZ | $3,900 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $3,200 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | Staten Island, NY | $3,200 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| International Disaster Emergency Service Inc | Noblesville, IN | $3,175 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Johnson University | Knoxville, TN | $3,175 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| San Jose Childrens Discovery Museum | San Jose, CA | $1,425 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 10 | $261,489 | $22,075 |
| 2024 | 31 | $1,355,930 | $35,000 |
| 2025 | 20 | $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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- 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.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Washington.
- 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
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