Empowerment Academy Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453801183
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Jacksonville, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9049622826
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $36,640
- Expenses
- $40,032
- Assets
- $88,244
- Liabilities
- $30,500
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sonia A Roberts (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Sonia A Roberts (Executive Director)
- Dr Adrian Johnson (Board Chair)
- Lizette Wright Pearson (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To engage in community development and enhancing communities by: aiding low-to-moderate income households in achieving homeownership through affordable housing initiatives, providing housing and consumer credit counseling, and housing development activities; aiding at-risk youth with improving their academic outcomes through education initiatives such as tutoring, test prep, and post-secondary readiness; aiding at risk and disabled youth with developing employment skills that improve their career readiness and employment outcomes; and engaging in community health initiatives and psychoeducation programs that improve community health outcomes.
What it reported doing in 2024
PreETS: EA is fulfilling its mission to improve education outcomes of youths through a partnership with the Florida Department of Education's Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. The partnership agreement allows EA to provide Pre-Employment Training and Postsecondary Educational Counseling to students with disabilities through face-to-face Career Camps. During these camps, we provide Workplace Readiness Training, Self-Advocacy Training, Work-Based Learning Experiences, Postsecondary Educational Counseling, and Job Exploration Counseling.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 67% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.2%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 79.8%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.3%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.2; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -28% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.8% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.2% of revenue deployed · 79.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.