- Revenue 2024
- $486,524
- Expenses 2024
- $504,190
Program services were 81.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- P30
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 3210 EUCLID AVE
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
EMPOWER SPORTS EXISTS TO ENRICH THE LIVES OF ATHLETES OF DIVERSE CHALLENGES THROUGH SPORTS AND EXERCISE WHILE PROMOTING KINDNESS, CHARACTER, AND RELATIONSHIPS.
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OUR INCLUSIVE SPORTS PROGRAM HAD ANOTHER RECORD-SETTING YEAR, WITH MORE THAN 1,500 REGISTRATIONS FOR OUR PROGRAMS. WE OFFERED BASKETBALL, SOFTBALL, FLAG FOOTBALL, SOCCER, KICKBALL, GOLF, PICKLEBALL, AND EXERCISE PROGRAMS IN RECREATION CENTERS, SCHOOLS, AND PRIVATELY OWNED GYMS ACROSS SIX COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST OHIO. PROGRAMS HELPED KIDS AND ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES IMPROVE THEIR PHYSICAL, SOCIAL, AND EMOTIONAL WELLBEING. OUR PROGRAMS REACHED PARTICIPANTS OF SEVERAL DIFFERENT COGNITIVE, GROSS MOTOR, HEARING, AND VISUAL DISABILITIES. WE WERE ALSO THRILLED TO HOST MORE THAN 1,000 VOLUNTEERS IN OUR PROGRAMS HELPING US FOSTER NEW FRIENDSHIPS, AND MORE INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES.
Expenses $408,396 · Revenue $34,373
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.
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Steve ThompsonSTEVE THOMPSON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 7.5
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Michael HeinesMICHAEL HEINES
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 7.5
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Kristin GibbsKRISTIN GIBBS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 7.5
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Tim OfftermattTIM OFFTERMATT
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 7.5
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Cindy ReaganCINDY REAGAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 7.5
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Michael CharlilloMICHAEL CHARLILLO
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 7.5
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Art BorowskiART BOROWSKI
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 7.5
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Will HuhnWILL HUHN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 7.5
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John RyanJOHN RYAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 7.5
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Regina EisenbergREGINA EISENBERG
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 7.5
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Tom HeinesTOM HEINES
EXECUTIVE DIR.
- Total calculated
- $78,750
- From this org
- $78,750
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 50
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $486,524
- Expenses
- $504,190
- Contributions
- $461,025
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $368,697
- Expenses
- $378,368
- Contributions
- $337,127
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $342,493
- Expenses
- $329,406
- Contributions
- $270,435
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $240,513
- Expenses
- $241,841
- Assets (EOY)
- $26,600
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $223,328
- Expenses
- $199,876
- Assets (EOY)
- $27,928
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $136,765
- Expenses
- $138,978
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,476
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $118,902
- Expenses
- $137,573
- Assets (EOY)
- $6,689
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $130,992
- Expenses
- $125,639
- Assets (EOY)
- $25,360
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $119,635
- Expenses
- $125,409
- Assets (EOY)
- $20,007
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $95,553
- Expenses
- $88,721
- Assets (EOY)
- $25,781
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $114,561
- Expenses
- $114,199
- Assets (EOY)
- $18,949
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2012
- Tax period
- 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012
- Principal officer
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Michael Heines
- Mailing address
- 27600 Chagrin Blvd Ste 450Woodmere OH 44122
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
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
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2023 UNRESTRICTED
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2022 UNRESTRICTED
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2024 UNRESTRICTED
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$30,500
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$22,000
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$16,700
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$12,950
2024 GRANT# 24.65 - GENERAL SUPPORT, COMMUNITY IMPACT GRANT, DONOR ADVISED GRANTS
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$11,500
2023 GRANT# 23.58 - GENERAL SUPPORT, COMMUNITY IMPACT GRANT
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$11,000
2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
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 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.