Empower Dreams
Legal name: Empower Dreams Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453715799
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Flower Mound, TX, United States
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,611
- Expenses
- $176,725
- Assets
- $153,283
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Paul Staudacher (President)
People named in this filing
- Paul Staudacher (President)
- Brent Svor (Secretry)
- Kris Watson (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
Empower Dreams partners with missionary organizations in Asia, Peru, and Uganda/Sudan to disciple people using linguistically and culturally compelling approaches—especially for oral cultures—and supports funding for oral Bible translation in heart languages. Your support helps equip local leaders, fund oral translations, and reach communities with the Gospel. Give Today Contact Us Empower Dreams. Paul Staudacher Paul Staudacher Founder & Leader View Bio → Robyn Howard-Shriver Robyn Howard-Shriver Board Member & Secretary View Bio → Brent Svor Brent Svor Board Member View Bio → Kris Watson Kris Watson Treasurer View Bio → Keith Cole Keith Cole Board Member View Bio → Jen Jackett Jen Jackett Board Member View Bio → Advisory Board Guiding Our Mission.
What it reported doing in 2025
Invested and Launched our dramatically increased partnership with Faith Comes By Hearing where we have or are training our Discipleship and Evangelism partners in India Africa Sudan Uganda Tanzania and Peru in best practices for Audio Bible use and stewardship and deployed over 1,500 new Audio Bibles into those regions to be used with this best practices stewardship.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 50.2%; rating input score 50
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -153.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 35.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 50.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $89K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.