Empowerment Zone Re Entry Initiative Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862855642
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Miami, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3054561278
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Rehabilitation Services for Offenders
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $274,426
- Expenses
- $296,714
- Assets
- $43,857
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Pauline Clark-Trotman (President)
- Demaris DelValle (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Pauline Clark-Trotman (President)
- Demaris DelValle (Vice President)
- Adam Saper (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
Counseling and Case Management Services for justice impacted people returning to the community from incarceration.
What it reported doing in 2025
Empowerment Zone Reentry Initiative serves citizens of Miami Dade County who are returning to the community from incarceration in Federal or State prisons or county jails. Our purpose is to reduce recidivism by working with each returning citizen to create a plan for their future that eliminates barriers, increases opportunities, repairs relationships and strengthens families and communities. 1 - We provide wrap around case management services that include advocacy and referrals to medical and mental health care, substance abuse treatment, employment and training programs, education, housing and legal services. We work with the Probation Officers and the Courts to assist clients in compliance with the requirements of their probation and court orders. We work directly with at least 30 clients who walk into our office for services each week. 2. We provide mental health counseling for individuals, couples, families and groups, helping clients to work through issues of trauma, PTSD, relationships and communications.We train Mental Health Counselors and Social Workers in provision of services to marginalized See Part III, Ln 4a statement
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.1%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 39.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -40.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 10 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $297K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.