Small Public Charity

SQUIRES EMPOWERING YOUNG DADS

Based in PORTLAND, OR, SQUIRES EMPOWERING YOUNG DADS operates as a Small Public Charity. The organization reported $92K in revenue, $82K in expenses, $23K in total assets for fiscal year 2025.

EIN: 933907585 PORTLAND, OR Youth Development - Religious Leadership NTEE: O55 Latest filing: 2025

Total Revenue$92K

Total Expenses$82K

Total Assets$23K

Grant Records0

Filing Years2025

Mission

SQUIRES EMPOWERING YOUNG DADS IS AN ORGANIZATION CREATED TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF YOUNG FATHERS. NAVIGATING FATHERHOOD AT ANY AGE IS A CALLENGE, WHEN YOU ADD ADOLESCENCE, IT ONLY COMPOUNDS THE SITUATION. UNDERSTANDING THE COMPLEXITIES OF BEING A YOUNG FATHER, SQUIRES EMPOWERING YOUNG DADS PROVIDES THE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT A YOUNG DAD NEEDS AS HE NAVIGATES FATHERHOOD AND DISCOVERS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A PARENT. THE MISSION OF SQUIRES EMPOWERING DADS IS TO EMPOWER YOUNG FATHERS WITH THE KNOWLEDGE AND SUPPORT TO PROVIDE EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL CARE FOR THEIR CHILDREN. THE ORGANIZATION DELIBERATELY OFFERS SUPPORT TO 14-TO-25-YEAR-OLD FATHERS, AS IT RECOGNIZES THE COMPLEX AND DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES MEN FACE WHEN BECOMING PARENTS AT A YOUNG AGE. BY OFFERING EDUCATION, COPING MECHANISMS, AND SUPPORT TO THESE YOUNG MEN THEY CAN OVERCOME THE NUMEROUS OBSTACLES THEY WILL FACE.

Where $100 goes at Squires Empowering Young Dads

How Squires Empowering Young Dads divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990-EZ filings.

$75 Programs the work itself

$25 Everything else operations and overhead

Form 990-EZ reports program spending but doesn't separate management from fundraising, so those are shown together.

Inside the $75 for programs

$42

Our knight project is a six-month peer-development program in which young fathers complete achievements in financial literacy, parenting education, reading to their children, participation in squires events, and…

56% of program spending

$17

Squires provides year-round programs that equip adolescent and young fathers (ages 25 and under) in the Portland metro area with education, mentoring, and resources that strengthen parenting skills…

23% of program spending

$16

Monthly programs include squires knight, a safe space for fathers to build community and access resources; knight project meetings, covering topics such as literacy, chivalry, adversity, and fatherhood…

21% of program spending

Source: Form 990-EZ filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

BOARD MEMBER David Carvajal

PRESIDENT Dean Cramer

SECRETARY Elizabeth Sowards

BOARD MEMBER Jerome Smith

TREASURER Renee Marie Taylor

EXECUTIVE DI Shanne Sowards

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Financial Trends

Year	Revenue	Expenses	Assets
2025	$92K	$82K	$23K

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