Empower House Sa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742934053
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2109089772
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health, General and Financing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,191,516
- Expenses
- $2,208,409
- Assets
- $791,030
- Liabilities
- $245,389
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER A CASTRO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER A CASTRO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $82,728 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empower house provides community health services, youth development programs, and advocacy opportunities that empower women and girls of color.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community health programs strengthen women and their communities by working to reduce health disparities and barriers to care. We increase access to essential health care services, wellness tools, skills and support for transformative community-wide change.- empower women - quarterly learning/growth opportunities for women to learn knew skills, build community, invest in their own wellbeing- empower parents - parenting education program that supports positive conneciton between parents and children using triple p curriculum- community health workers - provide one-on-one support for community members using holistic supports including direct assistance, health/human service navigation, mobility mentoring- empower connects - supports digital literacy and access through workshops, on-site computer lab, device distributions, one-on-one navigation- empower choice - reproductive health education through workshops and healthy pregnancy classes for birthing people.- mental health - supportive counceling and clinical mental health services- circles - peer-led groups that build community and create safe spaces for healing and growth
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 92% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $135.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 91.6%; rating input score 92; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.8%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.1% of revenue deployed · 79.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $83K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.