Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ACTION FOR EQUITY INC
ACTION FOR EQUITY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $866,738 to it, the largest being BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ($396,635). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $886k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $867k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Action for Equity Inc does
Mission
Action is fighting for an equitable society. Action is working for all people to have quality housing, job access, environmental quality and access to transporation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Held series of convenings on black and indigenous awareness graduated 45 students from our hvac-r class held three transit/environmental justice forums facilitated community planning process
$804,598 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $804,598.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $209k to $91k (−57%).
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: 2022 61% · 2023 52% · 2024 82% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Marvin Martin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $217k → $120k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 ACTION FOR EQUITY INC’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
ACTION FOR EQUITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 ACTION FOR EQUITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 68% · 2022 76% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
91% of ACTION FOR EQUITY INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $215k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding ACTION FOR EQUITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $945k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$945k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ACTION FOR EQUITY INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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 ACTION FOR EQUITY INC: 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 ACTION FOR EQUITY INC?
- ACTION FOR EQUITY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $866,738 to it, the largest being BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ($396,635). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTION FOR EQUITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $866,738 in grants to ACTION FOR EQUITY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTION FOR EQUITY INC?
- BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $396,635 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTION FOR EQUITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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