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AUTISM EMPOWERMENT

EIN 45-2455219 VANCOUVER, WA

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Revenue 2024
$237,253
Expenses 2024
$395,036

Program services were 88.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
G84
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 871676

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

Autism Empowerment is a nonprofit 501c3 organization devoted to enriching and empowering the lives of youth adults and families within autistic and neurodivergent communities. We promote a culture of Autism Acceptance and believe that each one of us has gifts and talents to make the world a better place.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Autism Empowerment is devoted to enriching and empowering the lives of youth adults and families within autistic and neurodivergent communities. We promote a culture of Autism Acceptance and believe that each one of us has gifts strengths and talents to make the world a better place. Wherever a person identifies in their life journey Autism Empowerment is here to meet them along the way with acceptance enrichment inspiration and empowerment for the road ahead.

  • Spectrum Life Magazine is a print and digital publication created by and for the autistic autism and neurodivergent communities. Each issue covers Advocacy Lifespan Recreation Education Health and Wellness and Therapy. An average issue spans 56 pages featuring 12-16 articles. Additional written audio and video content can be accessed on SpectrumLife.org AutismEmpowerment.org and AutismEmpowermentPodcast.org. The quarterly print edition reaches 37,000 readers in the Northwest through 720 distribution points with national and international subscriptions available. All magazine editions are downloadable for free. Supplementary materials include blog posts extended interviews the Autism Empowerment Podcast educational videos a disability resource directory and other valuable resources for individuals of all abilities in neurodiverse and neurodivergent communities.

    Expenses $101,685

  • Community Enrichment: This program encompasses community education enrichment and advocacy efforts such as the Autism Empowerment Podcast AutismEmpowermentPodcast.org support groups advocacy and coalition work community events trainings collaborations exhibitions consulting video productions and community support through email and online groups. These services are provided in Southwest Washington the Portland Oregon metro area and beyond.

    Expenses $244,789

  • Autism Services: This volunteer program prioritizes providing service and emotional support to individuals and families within the autistic autism and neurodivergent communities. Through Autism Empowerment Cares volunteer projects participants engage in valuable opportunities to promote autism acceptance enrichment inspiration and empowerment. A new youth-focused volunteer initiative Autism Serves: Helping Hands is scheduled to launch in early 2025.

    Expenses $4,772

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Karen Krejcha

    President and Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Paul Pitsenbarger

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brian Tashima

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Krejcha

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Gary Borghello

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tara O'Gorman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chris Parrott

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Andy Humber

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Anson Service

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $300
    From this org
    $300
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shasti McLaughlin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $2,000
    From this org
    $2,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $237,253
    Expenses
    $395,036
    Contributions
    $229,018
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $283,060
    Expenses
    $329,339
    Contributions
    $265,696
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $205,817
    Expenses
    $209,438
    Contributions
    $184,092
    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
    $118,324
    Expenses
    $166,860
    Assets (EOY)
    $149,696

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $188,901
    Expenses
    $110,215
    Assets (EOY)
    $217,759

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

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.