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Empower Nepali Girls Inc

Public charity · Grantmaker Bellevue, WA EIN: 20-8694515 Website

Scholarships provided for Nepal girls in order to give them educational opportunites.

Empower Nepali Girls Inc at a glance

In short: Empower Nepali Girls Inc reported $68K in grants paid in 2025 (a total; its filing lists no individual grants). Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.

Grants paid (2025)
$68,492 — reported as a total on the IRS filing, without an itemized list
+26.1% vs 2024
Total assets
$891,450
+0.8% vs 2024
Revenue (2025)
$82,318
-17.9% vs 2024
Net investment income (2025)
$-11,492
-44300.0% vs 2024
Expenses (2025)
$73,834
+4.7% vs 2024
Latest 990 filing
Form 990, 2025 View filing

Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026.

Who Empower Nepali Girls Inc funds

How this funder distributes its grants

Grant Size Distribution

4 grants across all recorded years

<$50K4$50–100K$100–250K$250–500K$500K–1M$1–5M$5M+

The most common grant size was in the $50–100K range: 4 grants of 4 (100%).

How Empower Nepali Girls Inc gives

  • Giving held roughly steady from 2021 to 2024 (+5%). Method

From the foundation's IRS Form 990 filings. Methodology.

Giving History

Giving Over Time

Total grant dollars and number of grants per year

$0$25K$50K$75K$100KTotal only2019 1 grant2020 1 grant2021 1 grant2022 1 grant2023 1 grant2024 Total only2025

From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $39K (2020) to $99K (2019). In 2025 it reported $68K in grants paid, as a total without an itemized list.

Hatched bars: grants paid as reported on the IRS filing, which lists no individual grants for that year.

Grants by year

Grant recipients and amounts by year

RecipientPurposeAmount
1 individual scholarship Recipients not named —$54,326
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Financial History

Multi-year comparison from IRS filings

Figures from IRS filings, by filing year
Filing yearTotal AssetsRevenueExpensesGrants paidGrantsNet Investment Income
2025$891,450$82,318$73,834$68,492Total only$-11,492
2024$884,616$100,254$70,518$54,3261$26
2023$854,590$117,735$91,291$76,5131$24,813
2022$829,468$74,393$92,822$82,9411$16,736
2021$845,220$71,668$59,438$51,5651$18,466
2020$835,596$174,720$51,093$38,7751$13,130
2019$712,033$124,881$112,072$98,972Total only$7,727

"Total only": grants paid as reported on the IRS filing, which lists no individual grants for that year.

About Empower Nepali Girls Inc

Based on IRS filings

Empower Nepali Girls Inc is a public charity focused on International, Foreign Affairs & National Security, based in Bellevue, WA. IRS filing data is available from 2019 through 2025. As of 2025, the organization holds $891K in total assets. In 2025, it reported $68K in grants paid as a total on its IRS filing, without an itemized list.

Leadership & Key People

Officers and directors from IRS filings

Empower Nepali Girls Inc is led by Sameer Shamsuddin, President & Treasurer on every filing since 2019; none of the 4 officers listed in 2025 report compensation.

Officers on the 2025 filing

  • Sameer Shamsuddin

    President & Treasurer

    On filings since 2019

    10 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Kripa Upadhyay

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    0.5 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Sara Safari

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    5 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Patrice Moulton

    Secretary

    On filings since 2019

    5 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.

Frequently asked questions about Empower Nepali Girls Inc

How much does Empower Nepali Girls Inc give each year?

Empower Nepali Girls Inc reported $68K in grants paid in 2025 on its 2025 IRS Form 990, as a total without an itemized list of grants. In 2024 it gave $54K across 1 grant.

How large is Empower Nepali Girls Inc?

Empower Nepali Girls Inc reported $891K in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $82K.

What is Empower Nepali Girls Inc?

Empower Nepali Girls Inc is a public charity focused on International, Foreign Affairs & National Security, based in Bellevue, WA. It holds $891K in total assets as of 2025.

What is Empower Nepali Girls Inc's EIN?

Empower Nepali Girls Inc's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 20-8694515. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.

Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings.

Data update history

(4)

When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable

  1. Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS May 27, 2020)
  2. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS May 14, 2025)
  3. Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS May 21, 2026)
  4. IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2024

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