Illinois · Nonprofit
Action Now
Action Now (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $682,080 to it, the largest being SEIU HEALTHCARE ILLINOIS & INDIANA ($305,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $140k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $682k
- Net assets
- $176k
What Action Now does
Mission
To fight for racial, economic and social justice for working families. The Organization works for affordable housing, stopping foreclosures, and predatory lending; access to quality health care and education; and living wage jobs. The Organization is active in promoting legislation and provides vendor services to candidates and campaigns at election time.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Action Now fights for racial, economic and social justice for working families by coordinating events focused on strengthening the partnership between community and labor, coordinating intergenerational dialogue across labor and community groups, proving strategic advice and leadership, and mobilizing people to meet for workers rights.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $83k to $208k (+150%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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 held at 1 funder, grant income fell $155k → $11k.
From the IRS filings of Action Now’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 Now leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Now.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 42% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Action Now draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Now
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Action Now Institute · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Action Now: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Action Now?
- Action Now (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $682,080 to it, the largest being SEIU HEALTHCARE ILLINOIS & INDIANA ($305,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Action Now have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $682,080 in grants to Action Now, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Action Now?
- SEIU HEALTHCARE ILLINOIS & INDIANA is the largest funder on record, with $305,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Action Now find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2018–2021), and the filings of 5 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