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EMPOWERED TO CONNECT INC

EIN 82-4696410 CORDOVA, TN

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Revenue 2024
$1,382,384
Expenses 2024
$1,575,985

Program services were 61.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E60
Classification
1200
Street
8680 RIVERWOOD FARMS PKWY

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

EMPOWERED TO CONNECT SUPPORTS FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES IMPACTED BY TRAUMA BY PROVIDING TRAUMA-INFORMED TRAINING, EDUCATION AND RESOURCES, AND BY EQUIPPING LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS, SCHOOLS, NONPROFITS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS WITH HEALING-CENTERED, TRAUMA-RESPONSIVE STRATEGIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO SERVE FAMILIES NEEDING MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT THROUGH THE WORK OF OUR CENTER AS WELL AS TRAIN, RESOURCE AND SUPPORT LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS, NONPROFITS AND SCHOOLS BY HELPING EQUIP THEIR STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS WITH TRAUMA INFORMED AND RESPONSIVE STRATEGIES.

  • THE ORGANIZATION ADDRESSES THE IMPACT OF ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (ACES) TRAUMA, TOXIC STRESS, AND COMPOUND RACIAL STRESS THROUGH PROFESSIONAL TRAINING, CAREGIVER EDUCATION, AND CAPACITY-BUILDING EFFORTS. WHILE EMPOWERED TO CONNECT DOES NOT DIRECTLY PROVISE CLINICAL SERVICES, IT SUPPORTS FAMILIES IN ACCESSING MENTAL HEALTH CARE THROUGH A NETWORK OF TRAINED AND ALIGNED PROVIDERS AND TARGETING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO REDUCE BARRIERS TO CARE.

    Expenses $965,966 · Revenue $400,433

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Claude Russ

    CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Benjamin Granger

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Lekha Samuel

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amy Monroe

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carissa Woodwyk

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brandon Edgerson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Lauren Burge

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Katherine Blackney

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark Ottinger

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $151,800
    From this org
    $126,591
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,209
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $126,591
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,209
    Filer's total
    $151,800

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,382,384
    Expenses
    $1,575,985
    Contributions
    $1,101,144
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,803,368
    Expenses
    $1,987,457
    Contributions
    $1,373,688
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,868,120
    Expenses
    $1,627,013
    Contributions
    $1,221,982
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,209,384
    Expenses
    $1,304,587
    Assets (EOY)
    $205,613

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,184,047
    Expenses
    $954,484
    Assets (EOY)
    $288,318

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $659,941
    Expenses
    $638,642
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,257

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.