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Public & Societal Benefit
Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research
FAIRFAX, VA
Total revenue
$1.5M
Total expenses
$1.2M
Net assets
$421K
Grants received
$2.6M
4 grants
EIN
863439342
Tax year
2024
Mission
We are a nonprofit nonpartisan educational organization dedicated to enhancing independent oversight of government and corporate wrongdoing EMPOWER works to help insiders document and report corruption to the proper authorities while also seeking to hold authoritiescont Sched
Financials
FY 2024
Revenue
Contributions & grants$1.5M
Program service revenue—
Investment income—
Other revenue—
Total revenue$1.5M
Expenses
Grants paid$3K
Salaries & benefits$694K
Fundraising$1K
Other expenses$531K
Total expenses$1.2M
Total assets$522K
Net assets$421K
People
4 listed
NameRoleCompensation
TRISTAN LEAVITT
President
Board
$244K
40 hrs/wk
JASON FOSTER
Chair
Board
$196K
40 hrs/wk
DEAN ZERBE
DirectorSecTreas
Board
—
0.5 hrs/wk
ROBERT HEYER
Director
Board
—
0.5 hrs/wk
Independent contractors
BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SC
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Grants received
Showing 4 of 4
FromAmountPurposeYear
$1.2M
DEVELOP AN INFRASTRUCTURE TO CULTIVATE, PROTECT AND WORK WITH WHISTLEBLOWERS TO ADDRESS ALLEGATIONS OF WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE
2024
$500K
DEVELOP AN INFRASTRUCTURE TO CULTIVATE, PROTECT AND WORK WITH WHISTLEBLOWERS TO ADDRESS ALLEGATIONS OF WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE
2023
$900K
DEVELOP AN INFRASTRUCTURE TO CULTIVATE, PROTECT AND WORK WITH WHISTLEBLOWERS TO ADDRESS ALLEGATIONS OF WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE
2022
Funded by
$2.6M from 2 funders · 4 grants · 2022–2024
Informing America Foundation
$2.6M · 3 grants · 2022–2024
Jewish Communal Fund
$15K · 1 grant · 2022
Details
EIN863439342
NTEE codeW05
Subsection03
Ruling date2021-11
Formed2021
Employees4