2025-05-27T13:13:55Z 2024-06-30 990 2023-07-01 330610787 EMPOWERING LIVES INTERNATIONAL EMPO 9099311311 PO Box 67 Upland CA 91785 Jim Caya Chief Executive Officer 9099311311 2025-04-27 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Jim Caya PO Box 67 Upland CA 91785 2277700 false X www.empoweringlives.org X 1994 CA To empower the oppressed in East and Central Africa through training, education, and sharing the Gospel. 8 7 20 46 0 0 1961158 2236449 215 0 41251 0 1961373 2277700 1333174 1269890 0 727526 818870 1358 2485 99578 199120 163501 2261178 2254746 -299805 22954 1544253 1575576 75320 83689 1468933 1491887 X Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationships with Jesus, and their skills to empower others. false false 913964 913964 Kenya ELI works strategically alongside gifted national leaders emphasizing collaboration, decentralization, and multiplication to break the cycle of poverty and "Ignite World Changers." Real change takes place in countless villages around East Africa through trained World Changers who have been equipped with life, communication, and leadership skills, as well as deepening relationships with God. Because life-skills, income-generating ideas, and agribusiness are dynamically integrated with trauma healing and the Gospel, former alcoholics, former brewers, widows, orphans, elders, chiefs, police officers, and many others are living transformed lives, impacting families, neighborhoods, communities, and villages! Additionally, ELI operates two orphanages which serve as homes for over 330 orphans, as well as a school that offers primary education to over 200 children from the orphanage and local community. Empowering orphans (the ultimate victims of poverty) and other vulnerable children to become World Changers is critical to ensure that future generations are trained and equipped to continue the real change taking place through Godly, life-giving influence on communities. In South Sudan, war has been a way of life for over 20 years. With the establishment of the new country of South Sudan, ELI has been able to provide life-changing skills through extension training. In 2005, ELI helped establish a Christian school 20 miles from Bor, near the upper Nile River. The elementary school, averaging around 200 children from kindergarten through 8th grade, is now managed by the local leadership and community. All programs for South Sudan are now financed through programs in Kenya. South Sudanese community leaders are trained, equipped, empowered, and commissioned through ELI's International Extension Program based out of Kenya. 743466 USA/General Fund The US-based staff are much more than administrators. They are active participants in ELIs mission and ministry. Through advising, consulting, and overseeing work in Africa, as well as communicating with sponsors, partners, and donors in the USA, ELIs US staff fuels the dynamic ministry and relationship building happening domestically. Though some staff hours are spent processing donations and engaging in necessary administrative functions, the majority of US human resource time is spent directly investing in, participating in, and advancing the mission in Africa and in the hearts and lives of ELIs wonderful partners who help to finance this special and unique ministry. 185579 185579 Tanzania For the majority of people in Tanzania the daily struggle for water impacts every other area of life. Where there is water, it is often contaminated with bacteria and parasites, leading to debilitating sicknesses and draining peoples energy and lives. To address this widespread problem, ELI is drilling and establishing clean water wells in communities and schools around the Lake Region. With a training base in Ramadi, ELI staff build relationships with suffering communities and work with the Mighty Men Drilling team to research and provide the best locations for safe water sources. The ELI Extension Training Program complements the water drilling program with short workshops in business, agriculture, and spiritual growth to help suffering families gain poverty-breaking knowledge and skills to better utilize the clean water sources for holistic transformation. 116796 116796 1959805 true true false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false true 1 0 true 20 true false false false false false false false false false false false false X 8 7 false false false false false false false true false false false true true true true true true true true false OH CA ID TN NY WA X Jim Caya 9099311311 PO Box 67 Upland CA 91785 Jim Caya CEO 50.00 X 129677 0 0 Ken Hendren Board Member 0.50 X 0 0 0 Marijo Bos Treasurer 0.50 X 0 0 0 Donald Rogers Chief Visionary Officer & Founder 50.00 X X 70220 0 0 Ron Higgins Chairman of Board 3.00 X 0 0 0 Christy Tonge Board Member 0.50 X 0 0 0 Liz Stafford Secretary 0.50 X 0 0 0 Mike Perkinson Board Member 0.50 X 0 0 0 Cameron Demetre Board Member 0.50 X 0 0 0 199897 0 0 1 false false false 0 2236449 36297 2236449 41251 41251 2277700 0 0 41251 1269890 1269890 234978 168141 23498 43339 504156 367954 110979 25223 30004 21903 6601 1500 49732 38792 9239 1701 17913 17913 2485 2485 35932 19763 16169 79612 46207 25704 7701 5622 4498 562 562 2848 2848 3190 2552 638 2687 1560 867 260 12860 12860 Staff Development 2662 2662 Board Expenses 175 175 2254746 1959805 195363 99578 305193 309315 1215787 1174861 8365 6899 32242 2687 0 29555 14908 54946 1544253 1575576 75320 83689 75320 83689 X 342073 270598 1126860 1221289 1468933 1491887 1544253 1575576 22954 X true X false false false X 0 0 0 0 2221114 2205843 2537409 1961158 2236449 11161973 2221114 2205843 2537409 1961158 2236449 11161973 793185 10368788 25312 13024 281 215 41251 80083 11242056 0.92230 0.00000 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 32342 2687 29655 29655 true Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 Program Services Travis and on-ground consultation to support the implementation of international programs. 743466 Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 Grantmaking 1216339 0 0 0 0 0 0 1959805 0 1959805 Sub-Saharan Africa Trainings, community, development, school support, healthcare, and orphanages. 913964 Wire Transfer Sub-Saharan Africa Trainings, community, development, school support, healthcare, and orphanages. 116796 Wire Transfer Sub-Saharan Africa Trainings, community, development, school support, healthcare, and orphanages. 189579 Wire Transfer 3 0 false false false false false false Part I, Line 2 Excel spreadsheets are utilized that itemize and categorize all programmatic expenses by agenda and/or program. All details inclusive of salaries, maintenance, food, fuel, utilities, school fees, per child, cell-phone use, internet, school supplies, training materials, farm inputs, staff development, general operations, and specific ministry work are meticulously recorded. All expenses are affirmed and supplemented with verified receipts. Trained accountants and bookkeepers on staff in Kenya, Tanzania, and DR Congo compile the monthly spreadsheets and generate monthly expense reports. Those reports are then reviewed by the national executive teams to confirm the financial honest of all operations and programs before submission to the ELI director of international implementation ahead of subsequent distribution of funds. Budgets are compiled annually and funds are distributed/granted to ELI in Africa monthly, upon review and approval of the prior month's reports. Documentation of all financials activities is paramount for Empowering Lives International. Funds are sent to national offices for the work in Africa. Local financial controllers and/or directors only release funds to programs once all prior expenditures and reporting have been approved and accepted by the relevant accounting department. All international work and financial operations undergo a full independent audit as required and/or regulated by the national governments of Kenya, Tanzania, and DR Congo. X 7 36297 Closing Value Part III, Line 4d DR Congo In the heart of the bustling city of Bukavu in the war-torn nation of DR Congo, ELI established the Empowering Lives Christian Academy. The school, located in the Keredi slum, provides a Christian education and a nutritious lunch to over 650 children (K-12) who would otherwise not have access to education or nutrition. The ELI Extension Training Program complements the school program with short workshops in business and agriculture to help suffering families gain vital knowledge and skills to break the cycle of poverty. Part VI, Line 11b The Form 990 was reviewed in detail by the Board Chair and the Chief Visionary Officer/Founder. The full 990 was then distributed to the governing board prior to being filed with the IRS. Part VI, Line 12c Staff, directors, officers, and board members are required to sign conflict of interest/disclosure forms annually. The disclosures are reviewed by the board chair. Independent members of the board review the board chair's statement. Compliance is monitored by management. Should any potential conflicts of interest be disclosed, the board member or officer would be asked to refrain from participation in any deliberations or decision with regard to matters affected by the relationship. Part VI, Line 15a The process for determining compensation of the organization's top management official included the following: independent members of the governing board research support levels through benchmarking as well as research with local church and university pay levels. Education level and experience are then also taken into account. The Finance Department finalizes support levels, which include salary, benefits, and TSA contributions. Approval of salaries are documented I the board minutes annually. Part VI, Line 15b The process for determining compensation of the organization's other officers included the following: the CEO researches support levels through benchmarking as well as with local church and university pay levels. Education level and experience are then also taken into account. The Finance Department finalizes support levels, which include salary, benefits, and TSA contributions. Approval of salaries are documented I the board minutes annually. Part VI, Line 19 These are available upon request. Part VI, Line 8b There are no committees that act on behalf of the governing body.