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Community Catalyst Action Fund Inc

The community catalyst action fund (ccaf) is committed to ensuring consumers are actively engaged in the decision-making that shapes our health and health system.that means influencing or changing the landscape to make access to comprehensive health care a central tenet of policymaking and creating opportunities for consumers to…

$12k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.8MCrime & Legal$234kHuman Services$127kCivil Rights$107kEducation$49kPublic Benefit$44k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$12,150
Median grant
1
States reached
$491k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MHM SUPPORT SERVICES$12,150
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JANNUS INC: $62k → 8%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER: $21k → 21%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $48k → 8%JANNUS INC: $31k → 8%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 21%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $28k → 8%JANNUS INC: $11k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $20k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $16k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $15k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
ID
MT
IL
WI
MI
MA
OR
NV
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 25 repeat orgs$596k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
29

Total granted

$1.7M
$596k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+4%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthCivil RightsPublic BenefitCrime & LegalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER
    5× · 2018–2022 · $127k · revenue +6%
  • JI
    JANNUS INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $104k · revenue +63%
  • PH
    PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT
    3× · 2017–2020 · $98k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHANGE CORPS
    one grant, 2017 · $67k
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +4%
  • CA
    CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue +55%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
National Coalition On Health Care

The mission of the national coalition on health care (nchc) is to support research and analysis, develop and promote policy solutions, build consensus, and engage the public in order to ensure that america has a high quality health system…

Health
2
Consumer Health Coalition

Consumer Health Coalition (CHC) is dedicated to inspiring a consumer movement to advance the health and enhance access to quality and affordable healthcare. We further our mission by targeting populations that are at risk for experiencing…

Health
3
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
4
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health
5
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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6
Health Care for All Oregon

Hcao educates about and advocates for an equitable, affordable, comprehensive, high-quality publicly funded universal healthcare system that will improve the lives of individuals, families and communities across oregon and throughout the…

Health
7
Confluence Public Health Alliance

None

Health
8
America's Agenda Health Care for All

To organize, educate, and build consensus among a wide range of labor, business, health care, citizen groups, and other diverse interests in support of adoption of health care policies that will assure affordable access to high quality…

Health
9
People's Action

People's action is organized to promote economic, racial and social equity through national, regional and local advocacy campaigns.

Community Improvement
10
Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation

Advocate for maine people to be heard, respected, and well-served in a health system that provides coverage, access and quality, affordable care to all.

Health
11
Healthcare Purchaser Alliance of Maine

The alliance is a collaborative of private employers and public trusts dedicated to lowering healthcare costs and improving quality. through collective and innovative strategies, alliance members drive the change they want to see in…

Health
12
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Center On Law and Poverty; the most unlike its peers is Catalyst Impact Montana. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/55
Grantees still filing
34/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NC CHILD: $66,855 · OtherNC CHILDCHANGE CORPS: $66,850 · OtherCHANGE CORPSCOLORADO CONSUMER HEALTH INITIATIVE: $60,000 · OtherCOLORADO CONSUMER HEALTH INITI…CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC: $55,000 · OtherCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN IN…Missouri Health Care for All: $54,933 · OtherMissouri Health Care for AllProgress Ohio Education Inc: $48,763 · OtherProgress Ohio Education IncCOMMUNITY CARE NETWORK OF KANSAS INC: $45,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CARE NETWORK OF KANS…MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $40,000 · OtherMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTERCHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC: $31,393 · OtherMHM Support Services: $28,150 · OtherValley Interfaith Project: $25,000 · Other+9 more: $97,913 · Other+9 moreAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $170,950 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY C…PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT: $97,917 · HealthPENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW P…GEORGIANS FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE INC: $46,500 · HealthGEORGIANS FOR A HEALTHY F…UTAH HEALTH POLICY PROJECT: $44,602 · HealthUTAH HEALTH POLICY PROJEC…Community Care Network Inc: $40,000 · HealthCommunity Care Network In…504HEALTHNET INC: $30,523 · Health504HEALTHNET INCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $20,000 · Health+5 more: $63,293 · Health+5 moreNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $126,580 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLI…JANNUS INC: $104,171 · Human ServicesJANNUS INCARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $28,868 · Human ServicesARAB COMMUNI…CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $120,000 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S D…ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS: $59,823 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR…OKLAHOMA POLICY INC: $28,941 · Civil RightsOKLAHOMA POL…ACLU OF MONTANA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsACLU OF MONT…CATALYST MONTANA: $12,500 · Civil RightsCATALYST IMPACT MONTANA: $10,000 · Civil RightsMaine Equal Justice Partners: $97,897 · Crime & LegalMaine Equal…TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC: $74,247 · Crime & LegalTENNESSEE J…NEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY: $44,800 · Crime & LegalNEW MEXICO …NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $17,500 · Crime & LegalNEBRASKA AP…+1 more: $7,970 · Crime & LegalALABAMA ARISE: $56,011 · Public BenefitNEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND INC: $40,000 · Public BenefitMONTANA BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER: $25,000 · Public BenefitEQUALITY STATE POLICY CENTER: $18,630 · Public BenefitGEORGIA BUDGET AND POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $16,000 · Public BenefitThe Commonwealth Institute for: $12,500 · Public BenefitWEST VIRGINIANS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE: $142,845 · EducationMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $72,169 · Community ImprovementTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 · Community Improvement
Other$619,857Health$513,785Human Services$259,619Civil Rights$256,264Crime & Legal$242,414Public Benefit$168,141Education$142,845Community Improvement$122,169

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $170,950 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWEST VIRGINIANS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE: $142,845 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $126,580 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $120,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJANNUS INC: $104,171 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT: $97,917 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetMaine Equal Justice Partners: $97,897 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC: $74,247 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $72,169 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNC CHILD: $66,855 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCHANGE CORPS: $66,850 over 1y, 10% of budgetCOLORADO CONSUMER HEALTH INITIATIVE: $60,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS: $59,823 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALABAMA ARISE: $56,011 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC: $55,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMissouri Health Care for All: $54,933 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetProgress Ohio Education Inc: $48,763 over 1y, 13% of budgetGEORGIANS FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE INC: $46,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE NETWORK OF KANSAS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUTAH HEALTH POLICY PROJECT: $44,602 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Care Network Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budget504HEALTHNET INC: $30,523 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetOKLAHOMA POLICY INC: $28,941 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $28,868 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMHM Support Services: $28,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACLU OF MONTANA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetValley Interfaith Project: $25,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetMONTANA BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUALITY STATE POLICY CENTER: $18,630 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGIA BUDGET AND POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $16,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPRO-CHOICE OREGON FOUNDATION: $15,625 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHEALTH ACTION NEW MEXICO: $15,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetHEALTH ACCESS OF CALIFORNIA: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetKENTUCKY VOICES FOR HEALTH INC: $14,889 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetOREGON STATE PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC: $14,307 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEVERTHRIVE ILLINOIS: $13,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCATALYST MONTANA: $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Commonwealth Institute for: $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION GROUP: $10,010 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE ACTION NETWORK OF OHIO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMoving NC Forward: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMARYLAND CITIZENS' HEALTH INITIATIVE EDUCATION FUND INC: $8,404 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY ALLIANCE INC: $7,970 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Catalyst IncHopewell FundNew Venture FundCenter on Budget and …Sixteen Thirty FundAnnie E Casey Foundat…Carequest Foundation …MAZON A Jewish Respon…Center for Law and So…Economic Policy Insti…CareQuest Institute f…Amalgamated Charitabl…
Community Catalyst IncMA81× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Catalyst Inc · Hopewell Fund · New Venture Fund · Center on Budget and Policy Priorities · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Carequest Foundation Inc · MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger · Center for Law and Social Policy · Economic Policy Institute · CareQuest Institute for Oral Health Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Catalyst Action Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Catalyst Action Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Community Catalyst Action Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home