2025-01-23T14:54:05-08:00 2023-12-31 461263313 Simply Shine Accounting & Tax Services 732 Thimble Shoals Ste 302A Newport News VA 23606 990 2023-01-01 452440266 Empowered by Light EMPO 4154887031 7 Pixley Ave 363 Corte Madera CA 94976 Moira Hanes Executive Director 2025-01-23 true true April Jones EA P01900843 3057937524 X 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X Moira Hanes 7 Pixley Ave 363 Corte Madera CA 94976 605909 false X https://www.empoweredbylight.org X 2012 CA EMPOWERED BY LIGHT IS A MISSION-DRIVEN ORGANIZATION EMPOWERING VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES ON THE FRONTLINES OF CLIMATE CHANGE, WILDLIFE LOSS AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEVASTATION. 7 6 1 0 581984 561047 0 44862 0 581984 605909 0 0 197153 1087 75058 237910 436150 581984 169759 1954637 1599398 1000000 475002 954637 1124396 EMPOWERED BY LIGHT IS A MISSION-DRIVEN ORGANIZATION EMPOWERING VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES ON THE FRONTLINES OF CLIMATE CHANGE, WILDLIFE LOSS AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEVASTATION. false false 281774 525000 Puerto Rico: Empowered by Light completed two projects in Puerto Rico in 2023 and made significant progress on a third. EBL installed solar and energy storage (batteries) on a community center in a very poor area of Puerto Rico that has no basic infrastructure and on a children?s home in the southwest corner of the island. EBL also made significant progress on a pilot effort using solar+storage to power cold storage for a farming cooperative on the west side of the island. Amazon: Empowered by Light had solar microgrids installed for two indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon displacing diesel as the primary source of electricity for an institute sharing indigenous wisdom with the world and working to reforest large tracks of land in the Amazon and for a community of more than 800 members of the Ashaninka tribe. Africa: Empowered by Light installed off-grid solar-powered water systems (pumping, storage and irrigation) for two poor and remote communities in Zambia benefitting more than 1400 people. In each community, the solar water systems are managed by a women?s collective that also oversees the gardens irrigated by water pumped by the system. These systems save the women significant time they used to spend walking to and from the river hauling water. The systems also keep the women safer since they?re no longer having to risk encounters with hippos, crocodiles and elephants while collecting water from the river. Empowered by Light also installed off-grid solar and storage on Chishi Community School, a small school in a remote part of Zambia enabling students to study after dark and increasing student enrollment by more than 80%. 281774 true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 0 0 false 1 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 7 6 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true false false false CA X Moira Haines 4154887031 7 Pixeley Ave 363 Corte Madera CA 94976 Moira Hanes Executive Dir. 40.00 0.00 X 100000 0 0 Marcellus Krapels Treasurer 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Manuel Offenberg Secretary 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Ellen Morris Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Patrick Crane Chairman 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Leilani Munter Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 George Gund IV Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 100000 0 false false false 0 561047 561047 0 44862 44862 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 605909 44862 0 0 0 0 0 0 175066 87533 52520 35013 0 846 846 21241 10621 6372 4248 0 2868 2868 3481 3481 0 1087 1087 0 0 33100 33100 819 819 0 0 0 4136 2526 1610 0 0 0 0 0 9093 2511 6582 Project Costs- Puerto Rico 75663 75663 Project Maul Recovery 41750 41750 Project Cost-Zambia 35570 35570 Project Costs- Brazil 25000 25000 6430 600 5830 436150 281774 79318 75058 442489 121750 1512148 1477648 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1954637 1599398 1000000 475000 2 1000000 475002 X 954637 1124396 954637 1124396 1954637 1599398 169759 X false false false X 152921 321289 85109 565873 561047 1686239 0 0 152921 321289 85109 565873 561047 1686239 0 1686239 0 0 0 1686239 X 0.00000 Rounding 2 2 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b 990 report is reviewed with the Board of Directors Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Quarterly review with Board of Directors regarding outside interests Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The organization has the following written policies in place: Code of Conduct, Whistleblower, Document Retention & Destruction, Conflict of Interest, Gifts and Financial Policies and Procedures. Amended Explanation 990 Return is amended to correct organization name and update Part I question 3,4 and 5 on board members independence Board Meeting Minutes Board meetings take place on a monthly basis and are documented by the Board members. Deferred Revenue Adjustment Program costs of $1,000,000 was adjusted as deferred revenue in FY 2022 for program costs in FY 2023. An adjustment on the accounting records was created to moved funds to deferred revenue. These program costs were to be deferred for FY 2023 and FY 2024