AImpower.org
Legal name: Aimpower
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881534897
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6506817207
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Media, Communications Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $146,180
- Expenses
- $179,379
- Assets
- $140,930
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shaomei Wu (Chief Executive Officer and Program Director)
People named in this filing
- Shaomei Wu (Chief Executive Officer and Program Director)
- Niranjan Sivakumar (Secretary)
- Salmana Ahmed (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We research and co-create empowering technologies for, with, and by marginalized communities to dismantle barriers, create benefits, and maximize public interests.
What it reported doing in 2025
1. Research and Technical Development. AImpower.org conducted research and technical development focused on improving accessibility, fairness, and inclusivity in speech AI and communication systems. During 2025, the organization advanced work on automatic speech recognition technologies, particularly addressing challenges faced by people who stutter and other marginalized speech communities. Activities included development of datasets, evaluation methods, and audits and improvements of existing automatic speech recognition models for disfluent speech. Besides speech recognition, the organization also worked on making videoconferencing more inclusive and comfortable for people with speech disfluencies, and developed a meeting companion app LibOrate to support people who stutter in Zoom meetings. LibOrate is open sourced and free to download through Zoom marketplace. The organization has published all the research and technical work as research publications, open access datasets and models, and have presented at top tier technical conferences. The organization also built and maintained computing infrastructure and software systems to support research, including cloud-based tools, data processing pipelines, and application platforms used in studies and community-centered technology development. These efforts contributed to advancing equitable technology design and expanding the technical foundation for inclusive speech technologies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 69% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.5%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -22.7%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -37.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -21.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $166K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.