California · Nonprofit
ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $529,422 to it, the largest being The Auen Foundation ($87,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $267k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $529k
- Net assets
- $116k
What Act for Multiple Sclerosis does
Mission
To help coachella valley residents live with multiple sclerosis, its symptoms and debilities by providing the tools and resources necessary to successfully improve their quality of life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Core Services - These core services provide a non-invasive approach toward the management of multiple sclerosis. The program includes exercise, cardio programs, strength training, massage, yoga, and reflexology. Exercise and motion therapy are evaluated and charted for each participant by a physical therapist every six months. The goal is to prove that exercise training and massage either stops or slows the progression of multiple sclerosis.
$162,699 spent85% of program spendingOther Distribution Expenses - The organization provides additional assistance for mobility equipment and repairs related to either this equipment or other necessities, such as air conditioning. It also provides a number of educational workshops, client quarterly meetings, and other special programs throughout the year. In addition, its educational resource center provides clients with the opportunity to learn a variety of computer programs, including Dragon voice activation and participation in webcast sessions. The reading and learning library provides clients access to significant books and resource materials covering all aspects of multiple sclerosis.
$18,301 spent10% of program spendingSubsidized Client Utilities - This program provides relief from the summer heat by subsidizing electricity costs from June 1 through September 30 for those clients whose household income does not exceed the established threshold.
$9,399 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $190,399.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $309k to $206k (−33%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 29% · 2024 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $43k → $80k.
4 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
46% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 22% · 2019 45% · 2020 34% · 2021 36% · 2022 41% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
52% of ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS?
- ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $529,422 to it, the largest being The Auen Foundation ($87,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $529,422 in grants to ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS?
- The Auen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $87,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 27 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing