Montana · Nonprofit
ACTION INC
ACTION INC (Montana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,867,211 to it, the largest being ENERGY SHARE OF MONTANA INC ($1,340,395). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $-1012008
What Action Inc does
Mission
Action Inc. Is dedicated to developing pathways to economic stability through innovative, community-based, collaborative solutions and serves a six-county area of southwest montana.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Head start: Action Inc. Offers quality preschool education for young children in butte. The program is designed to give young children, ages 3-5, the skills they need to be successful in school by providing educational activities with qualified teachers, early childhood development, transportation, meals, and medical, dental, and mental health services when needed. Parent involvement is welcome and strongly encouraged. Services are available to children who have special needs. The program is free to participants and is 100% grant funded.
$2,447,454 spent38% of program spendingWeatherization: Action Inc. Provides services to make homes safer and more energy efficient for low-income households. The program performs energy audits to help locate efficiency problems. Once an audit is complete, the program can help by insulating, replacing broken glass, and testing, repairing or replacing combustion appliances.
$1,805,026 spent28% of program spendingHousing choice vouchers: Action Inc. Provides affordable housing and housing choice vouchers to low-income families and individuals to help with monthly rent.
$366,796 spentof which $118,682 as grants$72,096 earned by the program6% of program spendingCommunity services block grant (csbg): csbg supports community services and activities for individuals with low incomes that alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty.chafee foster care independence grant: program offers assistance to help current and former foster care youths achieve self-sufficiency.energy share: program provides emergency heat assistance by helping households with heating bills or buy fuel.low-income housing energy assistance program: program provides assistance with heat bills during the winter months to eligible low-income households with natural gas, electricity, fuel oil, propane, wood, and coal as primary heat sources.mining city christmas: program is donation-based and provides food and gifts for lowincome children during the winter holiday season.rapid rehousing and homeless prevention program: emergency solutions grant, local funding and a continuum of care grant provide direct assistance to house homeless families and individuals as well as provide case management and diversion services.summer nutrition program: program provides breakfast and lunch to school-aged children during summer months when school nutrition programs are not…
$1,867,812 spentof which $636,939 as grants$33,982 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,487,088.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.7M to $5.1M (−11%).
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: 2017 91% · 2019 94% · 2020 95% · 2021 95% · 2022 94% · 2023 95% · 2024 94% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ACTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Margie Seccomb
Executive director/CEO
Board chair
Ivy Fredrickson
Board chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $117k → $288k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 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 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 79% · 2019 75% · 2020 62% · 2021 74% · 2022 37% · 2023 80% — 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
67% of ACTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
98% of ACTION INC's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ACTION INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ACTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$20.8M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.4M
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 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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Continental Gardens Housing Corp · exempt
- Shermont Manor Housing Corp · exempt
- Home Energy Solutions Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACTION INC?
- ACTION INC (Montana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,867,211 to it, the largest being ENERGY SHARE OF MONTANA INC ($1,340,395). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,867,211 in grants to ACTION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTION INC?
- ENERGY SHARE OF MONTANA INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,340,395 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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