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Empower-Emerging Markets Foundation
At-A-Glance
Type: Non-profit, 501(c)(3)
Founded:
2000
Tax ID: 03-0529005
Most Recent Filing: 2024
Budget (2025): Assets: $7,671,486 Revenue: $11,802,297 Expenses: $10,294,166
The Empower-Emerging Markets Foundation is an international organization that networks with local organizations in emerging markets to improve the communities of at-risk youth. 1 2
Financial Statistics
Total Assets
Total Revenue
Total Expenses
| Year | Total Assets | Total Revenue | Total Expenses | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $7,671,486 | $11,802,297 | $10,294,166 | |
| 2024 | $6,994,819 | $8,584,730 | $10,292,012 | View |
| 2023 | $10,200,149 | $10,873,067 | $10,958,149 | View |
| 2022 | $10,411,489 | $9,319,505 | $11,014,625 | View |
| 2021 | $11,350,043 | $8,896,356 | $7,728,769 | View |
| 2020 | $9,120,547 | $6,834,793 | $7,098,614 | View |
Prior year filings: 2019, 2018, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
Revenue Detail
Expenses Detail
Employee Compensation
- Number of Employees: 10
Highest Earning Employees
| Employee | Title | Total Compensation |
|---|---|---|
| Cynthia Steele | PRESIDENT AND CEO | $275,000 |
| Larry Bloom | CFO | $153,800 |
| Wilson Ventura | DIRECTOR OF FINANCE | $131,075 |
| Daniel Parnetti | SR PROGRAM MANAGER | $117,075 |
Grant Activity
All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:
- Total Grant Value: $28,461,911
- Number of Grants: 187
- Number of Funders: 48
Selection of highest value grants received from the last seven years:
| Amount | Year | Funder | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,634,540 | 2025 | National Philanthropic Trust | HUMAN SERVICES |
| $1,591,924 | 2022 | Tides Foundation | EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT |
| $1,458,227 | 2020 | Novo Foundation | PROJECT SUPPORT: GIRLS FUND |
| $1,000,000 | 2022 | The Ford Foundation | Core support for the Empowering Her Voice Fund to to strengthen global inter-generational feminist movements through participatory approaches and leveraging new funding ? |
| $580,000 | 2024 | Jpmorgan Chase Foundation | IN SUPPORT OF CREATING ECONOMIC MOBILITY AND CAREER PATHWAYS |
| $500,000 | 2024 | Tides Foundation | EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT |
| $500,000 | 2023 | Tides Foundation | EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT |
| $500,000 | 2022 | Tiger Global Impact Ventures Inc | COMMUNITY |
| $500,000 | 2021 | Tiger Global Impact Ventures Inc | COMMUNITY |
| $460,000 | 2020 | Tides Foundation | EQUALITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT |
| $380,000 | 2022 | Donor Advised Charitable Giving, Inc. | INTERNATIONAL, FOREIGN AFFAIRS |
| $275,400 | 2024 | The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund | COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS |
| $275,000 | 2024 | Dasra | GRANT TO SUPPORT YOUTH, ESPECIALLY GIRLS, IN SKILL DEVELOPMENT, LIVELIHOOD OPPORTUNITIES, AND ACCESS TO SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (SRH) SERVICES. |
| $269,500 | 2023 | The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund | COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS |
| $268,085 | 2022 | The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund | COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS |
| $250,300 | 2024 | National Philanthropic Trust | HUMAN SERVICES |
| $250,000 | 2024 | The Jay Pritzker Foundation | TO ESTABLISH AN ENDOWMENT IN SUPPORT OF ITS ONGOING MISSION |
| $243,350 | 2024 | Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds Inc. | SEE PART IV |
| $240,950 | 2025 | The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund | COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS |
| $239,846 | 2021 | The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund | COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS |
| $202,000 | 2020 | United Way Worldwide | GENERAL CHARITABLE OPERATIONS |
| $200,000 | 2023 | Jpmorgan Chase Foundation | IN SUPPORT OF CREATING ECONOMIC MOBILITY AND CAREER PATHWAYS |
| $200,000 | 2022 | Jpmorgan Chase Foundation | In support of creating economic mobility and career pathways |
| $188,158 | 2020 | The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund | Community outreach & enrichment programs |
| $170,000 | 2023 | Vanguard Charitable | FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE |
All-time grants given statistics from Candid dataset:
- Total Grant Value: $51,448,124
- Number of Grants: 1,339
- Number of Recipients: 396
Selection of highest value grants given from the last seven years:
| Amount | Year | Funder | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| $176,000 | 2024 | Yayasan Kusuma Buana | EMpower’s fifteenth and sunset grant to YKB will focus on 3 areas of programme support and 1 area of organisational support. The programme will reach 920 youth participants which includes 840 participants (151 girls and 141 boys aged 10-14, 249 girls and 259 boys aged 15-19), 90 ASRH peer educators (20 girls and 20 boys aged 10-14, 25 girls and 25 boys aged 15-19) and 20 ASRH youth leaders (20 males aged 15-24). In addition to these 920 youth participants, a further 160 young people are expected to be served in their clinic, bringing the total reach to 1,080. The programme support will include sustaining Bongas Adolescence Sexual Reproductive Health (ASRH) programme through programme delivery and advocacy (Component A), strengthen local stakeholders’ support at district and provincial level (Component B) and improving ASRH and mental health knowledge for youth (Component C). In the area of organisational support, the grant will strengthen management capacity at YKB which is currently amid reorganising its managerial structure, given Joedo Prihartono’s (CEO) retirement (Component D). |
| $165,000 | 2022 | Genc Hayat Vakfi (youth Lives Foundation) | |
| $155,000 | 2023 | Adonis Musati Project | EMpower's third grant to the Adonis Musati Project will target 512 young people (50% female). 408 young people in a Youth Empowerment Project that strengthens mental health and resilience, and builds critical life skills. 300 young people in an educational support initiative Together2Learn (212 of these will also be attending the Youth Empowerment Project) to support young people to stay in school and progress to the next grade. The grant also supports the ongoing leadership and skills training of 16 peer mentors and tutors whilst providing them with part time employment as peer mentors and tutors. Finally, the grant will establish a Community of Practice with other EMpower grantee partners, supporting and developing social services staff through individual and group social work and mental health programme supervision. |
| $155,000 | 2023 | Research for Education and Career Help Institute | EMpower’s 6th grant to REACH will allow to provide 1,700 young people at the margins 16 to 30 years old (half of them young women; the age group 25 to 30 are above all disabled young people) with vocational training through different models and in different locations via 3 program components. Component 1: Vocational Training at REACH training centres: 1,400 marginalized young people 16 to 30 years old, half of them young women, will get vocational training along with life and employability skills training – this time newly offered as a dual training – at REACH training centres completed by job placement and follow-up support. Component 2: Alumni-led Vocational Training: A decentralized, alumni-led training model shall be introduced with 100 young people 16 to 30 years old, half of them young women, in which former graduates who started their business or are self-employed shall serve as trainers. Component 3: Training for young people in remote areas: REACH will reach out to 200 disadvantaged youth 16 to 30 years old, half of them young women, in mountainous areas suffering from limited access to vocational training and employment opportunities. With EMpower’s flexible funding REACH will, amongst others, further strengthen its financial sustainability and build capacities of staff and management. |
| $150,000 | 2025 | Anonymous Recipient | This will be the 3rd grant to X, which will continue to develop and deliver girl centered programming in Turkey, and serve as a strategic collaborative ‘backbone organization’ for the field of empowering girls. This new grant will focus specifically on supporting the Learning Community of 30+ NGOs, facilitated by X. This will contribute greatly to building the capacity and practice of girls centered program design in several fields, as the LC not only brings the NGOs together to build practice and share learning, but also provides funding for them to implement girls centered work. In addition, the strategic partnership between X and EMpower will be even further deepened as X joins the ‘Empowering her Voice’ initiative and takes the knowledge and practice sharing even further across borders with India and other EMpower countries |
| $150,000 | 2024 | Yayasan Role Bali Indonesia | EMpower’s ninth and sunset grant to the ROLE Foundation, BaliWISE program will support 200 marginalized young women 19-25 years old during the two years of the grant. The young women will complete a six-month residential training programme in either Hospitality or Digital Marketing. Both courses provide sector specific skills and incorporate life skills training coupled with an internship/ on-the-job training phase creating a pathway to formal and skilled employment. The digital marketing programme is a new addition to ROLE’s portfolio and reflects the desire to invest in sustainability and reducing risks associated with a single vocational offer. Although hospitality is the world’s largest industry and the dominant industry in Bali, it is also one of the most volatile industries. This became clear during the COVID-19 pandemic when the sector essentially shut down. Beyond, at the organizational level, ROLE will invest in institutional strengthening, mainly to enhance the financial sustainability of the organization. |
| $150,000 | 2023 | Urban Agriculture Network | EMpower's sixth and final (sunset) grant to Urban Agriculture Network (URBANET) will support the training of 100 young people (70 females and 30 males) between the ages of 20 and 24 on beekeeping and marketing bee products from 4 districts in Northern Ghana. This is to provide sustainable livelihood opportunities for young people especially girls to meet the demand of the existing honey market and preserve natural habitats for bees. This grant will also strengthen the organisation’s capacity in the areas of communications and fundraising to sustain their work beyond EMpower’s funding. |
| $150,000 | 2022 | We Are Purposeful | |
| $147,500 | 2024 | Sozo Foundation Trust | EMpower's 7th and final grant to the Sozo Foundation Trust will ensure both programmatic and financial sustainability beyond EMpower support. Firstly, in ensuring that 30 graduating students, including girls and young people, are provided with tailored opportunities for further education, job placements, or other meaningful pathways after they finished school, by strengthening an existing programme component through the appointment of a job placement specialist. Secondly, by strengthening fundraising capacity. Finally, Sozo will invest in the mental health capacity of staff, thereby ensuring a culture of mentally healthy and trauma informed staff supporting young people to build their own mental health. |
| $143,000 | 2025 | Radio Workshop | EMpower's 5th grant to Radio Workshop (previously known as Children’s Radio Foundation) will be to train and support 200 young people (12-24; 58% female) as they produce radio shows, podcast episodes and facilitate community engagements on the intersection of mental health, sexual reproductive health, gender-based violence, as well as the themes of access to higher education, and transitioning from education to work. The aims are to increase resilience and positive mental health, as well as a deeper understanding of gender-based violence, sexual rights and reproductive health and youth opportunity amongst not only the 200 Youth Reporters (working at 11 local radio stations across seven South African provinces) but also among the estimated 74,520 regular youth listeners. This grant will also provide regular access to therapeutic support to the Youth Reporters, and in-depth capacity building for the local radio station facilitators, so that they can provide support and mentoring to Youth Reporters. Lastly, the grant will provide funding to build on the network of youth reporter alumni to track the long-term impact and to cultivate a community where they can engage and support current Youth Reporters |
| $140,000 | 2023 | Hacey Health Initiative | EMpower's second grant to HACEY Health Initiative will expand their work to 12 new communities in Lagos and Ogun States, supporting 2,000 young girls between the ages of 12 and 19 in safe spaces to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to make informed decisions as regards their sexual and mental health, finance and personal development. The young girls will also be supported to identify and carry out social projects to improve their communities through advocacy and volunteering. The grant will also help to retain the provision of mental health support services for the young people and staff, administrative and monitoring, learning and evaluation costs. |
| $139,000 | 2023 | Yayasan Ekoturisme Indonesia | EMpower's 6th and sunset grant to Yayasan Ekoturisme Indonesia (East Bali Poverty Project, EBPP) will extend 192 young people aged 10-19’s (103 girls and young women and 99 boys and young men) time in school and prevent dropouts. This will be achieved through three components. Component A will enhance their knowledge and perspectives on sexual and reproductive health and rights. They will continue their youth-led advocacy to eradicate Child Early and Forced Marriages (CEFM) by changing the pararem / customary law on marriages, using the Photovoices approach. This iteration of the programme has an even more pronounced strengthening of the eco-system, where the staff and youth will have more engagement with parents. Component B will strengthen their ambition and life skills. A new online career library will also be set up. Component C will provide project-based learning opportunities and participation in Student Councils. This extension of their COVID-9 experiment focuses on creative thinking, teamwork and leadership. With EMpower’s flexible funding, EBPP will cover some of their operational costs. |
| $135,000 | 2023 | Redes da Maré | |
| $134,000 | 2022 | Sozo Foundation Trust | |
| $131,000 | 2022 | Vietnamese American Non-Governmental Organization Network | |
| $127,000 | 2023 | Empujar – Fundación Pleroma | EMpower's fourth grant to EMPUJAR (AC) will support 2,150 marginalised young people between the ages of 17 and 24 (54% female and 46% male) to increase their employment prospects through life skills and vocational skills training, mentoring, linkages to internships and job placement support. The grant will also help strengthen EMPUJAR’s job placement support for programme graduates, as well as pilot a partnership with an organisation based in the province of Córdoba, which also runs a livelihoods program and will benefit from EMPUJAR’s job placement expertise. |
| $126,500 | 2024 | BRAVE (Rock Girls) | EMpower's 5th grant will support Brave Rock Girls in its ongoing leadership transition process to the three Senior Girl Leaders. In addition, the grant will continue to deliver its programme aiming to create safe spaces for 90 girls in Manenberg, Cape Town, and develop their leadership and community participation. This grant will also be used to provide mental health support networks at local schools and gain increased support from the girls’ families. |
| $125,000 | 2023 | Joint Operation for Social Help | EMpower's sunset grant to JOSH will support the organization to strengthen its blended learning program focused on employability and leadership development and equip young people, especially women with skills required to navigate the multi-layered challenges in the way of social and economic development. The final grant to JOSH will also support the organization build its capacity through relevant trainings for all the members of the team, including the senior management. |
| $125,000 | 2023 | Suna'nın Kızları | EMpower's second grant to Suna's Girls will realise the following activities in economically disadvantaged areas of Istanbul as well as earthquake-affected areas: 1). Design and Development of a new Adolescent Parent Program and implementation (pilot) with caregivers and their adolescent child 2). Revision and continued implementation of the revised/upgraded PERGEL program for 180 children 3). Continued programming of the Girls Advisory Council 4). Continued support for the capacity development of NGOs in learning and applying girl centered programme design. It will also lead a girl-centered design community of practice which includes hosting a workshop for girls and NGOs on girl-centered programme design and the development, design, translation and distribution of content related to girl centered program design and all other aspects of working with and supporting/creating enabling environments for girls. |
| $124,000 | 2022 | Yayasan Kusuma Buana | |
| $120,000 | 2025 | Fundación Pleroma | EMpower's fifth grant to EMPUJAR will focus on promoting individual change by supporting 2,128 marginalized youth (63% women, 36% men, 1% nonbinary) aged 17–24 from the suburbs of Buenos Aires to improve their employment prospects. Participants will engage in life skills and vocational training, mentoring, anxiety management workshops, and job placement support and it is expected that 40% of programme participants secure employment. The grant will also help EMPUJAR automatise stakeholder management, conduct youth employment research, and enhance its media presence to promote public awareness and engagement |
| $120,000 | 2025 | Nirantar | EMpower’s 5th grant to Nirantar will engage 320 young people (160 girls, 160 boys) in a holistic life skills program focused on literacy, numeracy, digital literacy, mental well-being, and gender equity. The grant also emphasizes meaningful youth engagement and the finalization of a revised curriculum that integrates themes like masculinity, mental health, caste, and gender to address the evolving needs of marginalized very young adolescents (VYAs) |
| $115,000 | 2022 | BRAVE (Rock Girls) | |
| $115,000 | 2022 | Saath Charitable Trust | |
| $111,870 | 2025 | Ruili Women and Children Development Center | EMpower's second grant to Ruili WCDC aims to replicate and adapt the Physiological and Reproductive Health (PRH) programme model developed in the first and current grant, implementing it in a vocational high school located in Mangshi, Dehong, Yunnan province. The work in the vocational high school will include the development of a set of vocational high school PRH handbook using a participatory approach, equipping a total of 10 teachers and 40 young people (30 females and 10 males) aged 15-19 with appropriate PRH knowledge and PRH education teaching and peer support techniques. The initial group will then in turn teach 2,800 young people (1,680 females, 1,120 males) aged 15-19 appropriate PRH knowledge over a 2-year period. EMpower's flexible funds will enhance the organisation financial stability. In compliance with G2A guidance, some flexible funds are integrated into the programme implementation fund for this grant, for strengthening the capacity of the organisation’s programme team staff to deliver more effective PRH education, as well as its monitoring and evaluation, enhance the organisation's safeguarding practices. [25.3.2024] Attention points regarding funding Ruili WCDC through Give2Asia: This grant summary reflects the initial proposed work agreed upon between Ruili WCDC and EMpower as of March 18, 2024. Following EMpower's internal approval of the grant amount and content during the week of March 25, 2024, EMpower will submit the complete proposal to Give2Asia and sign a commitment form with Give2Asia. However, it should be noted that approval of the programme by Give2Asia and the Chinese government, as outlined in the commitment form, is not guaranteed. Give2Asia will review the proposal, screen for sensitive components within the grant, and may adjust the programme work and allocation of flexible funds. EMpower will be involved in the discussion and will be informed about any changes made. It is important to note that Give2Asia imposes restrictions on EMpower's flexible funding, requiring a majority of the funds to be directed towards programme implementation. As a result, flexible funds may be reworded as programme implementation components in the final proposal approved at the levels of EMpower, Give2Asia, and the Chinese government. The entire review and approval process at these multiple levels will occur from March 2024 to mid-September 2024. [23.8.2024] The grant is approved by the Chinese government and G2A and no changes in the proposal are required. The grant is ready for EMpower to approve |
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References
1. “About Us.” Empower-Emerging Markets Foundation, Accessed February 10, 2023. https://empowerweb.org/about-us
2. “Empower-Emerging Markets Foundation.” LinkedIn, Accessed February 10, 2023. https://www.linkedin.com/company/empowerweb