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EMPOWER-EMERGING MARKETS FOUNDATION

EIN 03-0529005 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$11,802,297
Expenses 2024
$10,294,166

Program services were 77.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q30
Classification
1000
Street
106 W 32ND ST

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).

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.

  • CYNTHIA STEELE

    PRESIDENT AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $297,605
    From this org
    $275,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,605
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $275,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $22,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $605
    Filer's total
    $297,605

  • AASHA PAI

    BOARD MEMBER-HK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEEM JIVRAJ

    BOARD MEMBER-HK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AVON NEO

    BOARD MEMBER-HK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BASAK YAVUZ

    BOARD MEMBER-US

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BETH FREDRICK

    BOARD MEMBER-US

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EG MORSE

    BOARD MEMBER-HK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES DONALD

    BOARD MEMBER-US

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEREMY LLEWELYN

    BOARD MEMBER-UK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JONATHAN BELL

    BOARD MEMBER-UK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KEVIN MURPHY

    BOARD MEMBER-US

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KRISTIN CEVA

    BOARD MEMBER-US

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LINDA WEISERT

    BOARD MEMBER-UK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LIZA GREEN

    BOARD MEMBER-US

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MADDY FOO

    BOARD MEMBER-HK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARC BALSTON

    BOARD MEMBER-US

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARY-THERESE BARTON

    BOARD MEMBER-UK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL HIRSCHHORN

    BOARD MEMBER-US

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NICHOLAS KOH

    BOARD MEMBER-HK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • OSMIN RIVERA

    BOARD MEMBER-US

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • OZAN TARMAN

    BOARD MEMBER-UK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PARVOLETA SHTEREVA

    BOARD MEMBER-UK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PATRICIA AHN

    BOARD MEMBER-US

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PONTSO MAFETHE

    BOARD MEMBER-UK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RACHEL ANDREWS

    BOARD MEMBER-HK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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 — 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
    $11,802,297
    Expenses
    $10,294,166
    Contributions
    $11,594,836
    Grants paid
    $5,192,795
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,584,730
    Expenses
    $10,292,012
    Contributions
    $8,409,555
    Grants paid
    $5,348,135
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,873,067
    Expenses
    $10,958,149
    Contributions
    $10,840,501
    Grants paid
    $6,128,077
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,873,067
    Expenses
    $10,958,149
    Contributions
    $10,840,501
    Grants paid
    $6,128,077

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.

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.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

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 10 September 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.