North Carolina · Nonprofit
ACTION INSTITUTE NC
ACTION INSTITUTE NC (North Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,280,251 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ($1,739,370). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $-15325
What Action Institute Nc does
Mission
Action Institute Nc is a community organization and citizens action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and economic concern. Through grassroots outreach and base-building, training and leadership development, and strategic campaign planning and execution, residents work together to determine their priorities and make action plans to win concrete improvements and policy reforms. Our issues include but are not limited to healthcare access, affordable housing and tenant rights, criminal justice reform and police accountability, living wages and more family-friendly workplace policies, immigrant rights, public education equity, and voting rights.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Voting rights and engagement:Action Institute Nc works on its own and with allies on voting rights, redistricting, and electoral reforms. We continued to work with a coalition that monitors legislative developments on voting rights and redistricting. This same coalition continues to push for an independent redistricting commission, but we were at the same time educating voters about the existing redistricting process and the likelihood that partisanship would again infect the maps produced by our general assembly. We also are working with other groups to remove the prohibition of voting for persons who are currently barred because they remain on probation or parole.
$43,754 spent6% of program spendingSocial safety net:healthcare access remains a major focus of our grassroots organizing work, with our priority issues being medicaid expansion, lowering prescription drug costs, and expanding the reach of the affordable care act. We are active with coalition partners in statewide work on medicaid expansion, and with national partners on lowering drug costs and in making the temporary healthcare provisions of the american rescue plan more permanent by including them in a reconciliation bill in congress. We also continue to lead on black maternal health legislation here in north carolina, and to promote reproductive justice at the state and federal level. We have also run a 15-person covid education canvass crew in mecklenburg county which started last may 2021, and an eastern north carolina covid education project with three coalition partners that cover much of the northeastern and southeastern portions of the state. We have encouraged vaccination participation, and organized a number of events where vaccines and other mutual aid like food distribution is available.
$182,452 spentof which $13,806 as grants23% of program spendingCivil rights:our civil rights organizing work falls into several broad categories- criminal justice reform and police accountability, immigrant rights, and racial and gender equity. On criminal justice issues, we worked with community partners and city leaders on funding and implementing violence interruption and crisis intervention programs that we had proposed for inclusion in the charlotte and mecklenburg county budgets. Our immigrant rights organizing included support for a deportation defense project we launched early in 2020 to boost legal representation in the local immigration court, along with actions we organized for passage of the dream act, and a path to citizenship for daca recipients and essential workers. Our racial and gender equity initiative organized monthly meetings with women across the state on healthcare access and black maternal health issues, criminal justice reform, covid prevention and addressing inequities in our state's response to the crisis. We built new rage cohorts in several eastern north carolina counties as part of our drive to expand organizing capacity and advocacy in underserved, high-poverty rural areas.
$243,806 spent31% of program spendingEconomic justice:the core of our economic justice work is organizing to raise the minimum wage to a living wage and to win fairer workplace policies for women and families. We also organize to increase the availability of affordable housing and to ensure stronger enforcement of tenant protections against evictions, substandard living conditions, and abusive landlords.our tenant organizing and resource center was busy fighting illegal evictions while they were still prohibited during the pandemic emergency, and working with tenant groups around the state to extend the eviction moratorium and get rental assistance out to those who qualified but were having a hard time getting it. We also created a hotline for tenants to call in mecklenburg county, and helped organize a court watch program to assist people facing eviction in the housing court.
$308,140 spentof which $1,087 as grants40% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $778,152.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $40k to $384k (+870%).
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 24% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Alexander Mccoy
Executive director
Board chair
Melvin Whitley
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $194k → $708k.
8 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Action Nc). These are real filings, and they are not money ACTION INSTITUTE NC raised.
From the IRS filings of ACTION INSTITUTE NC’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 INSTITUTE NC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 INSTITUTE NC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 52% · 2019 57% · 2020 25% · 2021 61% · 2022 26% · 2023 40% — growing more concentrated.
“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
46% of ACTION INSTITUTE NC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% 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
ACTION INSTITUTE NC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $760k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like ACTION INSTITUTE NC
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Action Nc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACTION INSTITUTE NC: 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 INSTITUTE NC?
- ACTION INSTITUTE NC (North Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,280,251 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ($1,739,370). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTION INSTITUTE NC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $4,280,251 in grants to ACTION INSTITUTE NC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTION INSTITUTE NC?
- CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,739,370 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTION INSTITUTE NC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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