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EMPOWER SOMERSET INC

EIN 23-7364157 SOMERVILLE, NJ

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Revenue 2025
$3,988,859
Expenses 2025
$3,855,423

Program services were 95.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
50 DIVISION STREET

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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

EMPOWER SOMERSET ASSISTS INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN MAKING POSITIVE LIFESTYLE CHOICES AND PROMOTES HEALTHY, DRUG FREE COMMUNITIES THROUGH EDUCATION, COLLABORATION, AND CONNECTIONS TO RESOURCES.

  • EMPOWER SOMERSET IS PROUD TO BE A LOCAL NONPROFIT AGENCY THAT CONTRIBUTES TO THE GREAT QUALITY OF LIFE IN SOMERSET COUNTY AND CENTRAL JERSEY BY CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES. THE ORGANIZATION WAS FORMED IN 1974 AND HAS BEEN PROVIDING LIFE SKILLS PREVENTION EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN THE COMMUNITY FOR OVER 40 YEARS. IN 2010, EMPOWER SOMERSET BECAME THE LEAD GRANTEE FOR THE SEVEN-COUNTY CENTRAL REGION OF NEW JERSEY'S STATEWIDE SCHOOL HEALTH PROGRAM. THE WHOLE SCHOOL, WHOLE COMMUNITY, WHOLE CHILD (WSCC) MODEL IS THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND NEW JERSEY'S SCHOOL HEALTH PROGRAM, EMPHASIZING THAT ALL CHILDREN DESERVE TO BE HEALTHY, SAFE, ENGAGED, SUPPORTED AND CHALLENGED. EMPOWER SOMERSET IS THE MANAGING AGENCY OF SOMERSET COUNTY'S PIONEER FAMILY SUCCESS CENTER, ESTABLISHED IN 2012 AS A COMMUNITY GATHERING PLACE THAT CONNECTS FAMILIES TO HELPFUL RESOURCES AND BRINGS FAMILIES TOGETHER THROUGH FREE EVENTS & LOCAL ACTIVITIES. PIONEER FAMILY SUCCESS CENTER HOSTS A MONTHLY FREE FAMILY FUN NIGHT AT ROTATING LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT SOMERSET COUNTY, PROVIDING FAMILIES WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENJOY QUALITY TIME TOGETHER. EMPOWER SOMERSET FACILITATES A WIDE VARIETY OF LIFE SKILLS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS EACH YEAR, SUCH AS THE SCHOOL HEALTH INITIATIVE, STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAMS AND PROGRAMS FOR VETERANS AND ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY ON HEALTH MANAGEMENT, STRESS REDUCTION AND FINANCIAL WELL-BEING. EMPOWER SOMERSET IS A MANAGING PARTNER AGENCY OF THE SAFE COMMUNITIES COALITION, DEDICATED TO ELIMINATING DRUG USE, UNDERAGE DRINKING AND PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE IN SOMERSET COUNTY COMMUNITIES.

    Expenses $3,664,264 · Revenue $281,447

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Doris Zampella

    PAST PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Philip Decker

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Craig Calderaro

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gabriela Gomes

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steve Katz

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Janet Kuebler

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Benjamin Stong

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stephany Gomes

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Wendy Ewen

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Daniel Puntillo

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joseph Bakes

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kristen Schiro

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $123,890
    From this org
    $123,890
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Ellen Dazet

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $103,380
    From this org
    $103,380
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $3,988,859
    Expenses
    $3,855,423
    Contributions
    $3,699,790
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,061,307
    Expenses
    $3,025,887
    Contributions
    $2,970,057
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,557,059
    Expenses
    $2,500,439
    Contributions
    $2,433,975
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,147,390
    Expenses
    $2,109,064
    Contributions
    $2,021,518
    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
    $1,596,952
    Expenses
    $1,506,262
    Assets (EOY)
    $677,633
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,414,916
    Expenses
    $1,330,597
    Assets (EOY)
    $415,690
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,139,198
    Expenses
    $1,046,461
    Assets (EOY)
    $190,917
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,082,049
    Expenses
    $1,083,725
    Assets (EOY)
    $83,210
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,179,342
    Expenses
    $1,181,118
    Assets (EOY)
    $85,896
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,101,236
    Expenses
    $1,094,869
    Assets (EOY)
    $121,322
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,106,846
    Expenses
    $1,113,969
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,263
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $987,675
    Expenses
    $978,665
    Assets (EOY)
    $96,609
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $830,202
    Expenses
    $852,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $106,317
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $932,394
    Assets (EOY)
    $72,606

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.