Disability EmpowHer Network
Legal name: Disability Empowher Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862446885
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5852699184
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Leadership Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $522,568
- Expenses
- $408,731
- Assets
- $348,655
- Liabilities
- $10,234
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHANIE WOODWARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- KATHRYN CARROLL (BOARD CHAIR)
- AMY TWEEDLE (VICE CHAIR)
- KATHRYN SHELLEY (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Disability EmpowHer Network empowers girls and women with disabilities through mentoring and transformational learning experiences.
What it reported doing in 2025
Empowered futures is a workforce readiness and career exploration program for youth with disabilities ages 12-24. The program provides skill-building workshops, mentorship, and real-world exposure to career pathways to help participants successfully transition from school to employment or higher education. Through interactive training sessions, networking opportunities, and individualized guidance from disabled professionals and mentors, participants develop practical skills such as resume writing, interviewing, workplace communication, and professional networking. The program also connects youth with role models with disabilities who demonstrate that meaningful careers and leadership are possible. Empowered futures aims to increase confidence, strengthen employment readiness, and expand economic opportunities for disabled youth as they prepare for independent and fulfilling futures.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.1%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.8%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.85; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 31.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 40.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 21 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 78.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $409K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.