California · Nonprofit
ACTIONS BEYOND WORDS
ACTIONS BEYOND WORDS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $215,104 to it, the largest being FISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC ($215,104). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $119k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $215k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Actions Beyond Words does
Mission
Actions Beyond Words ABW has delivered critical humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine providing life-saving medical equipment in and around conflict zones and supply hospitals and shelters much-needed medical aid Additionally weve delivered essential heating equipment for the harsh winters clothing and hygiene products and over 500 metric tonnes of food across Ukraine ABWs primary initiative Mission Ukraine has been instrumental in delivering essential humanitarian aid throughout Ukraine ABW remains committed to providing sustained relief to those facing the harsh realities of the ongoing war ensuring that help reaches even the most affected areas
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
0
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $26k to $47k (+83%).
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.
100% of ACTIONS BEYOND WORDS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Tom Mitchell
Board President
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $50k → $115k.
From the IRS filings of ACTIONS BEYOND WORDS’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.
Where its funders are
ACTIONS BEYOND WORDS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state 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.
Against its field
ACTIONS BEYOND WORDS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like ACTIONS BEYOND WORDS
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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACTIONS BEYOND WORDS: 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 ACTIONS BEYOND WORDS?
- ACTIONS BEYOND WORDS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $215,104 to it, the largest being FISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC ($215,104). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTIONS BEYOND WORDS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $215,104 in grants to ACTIONS BEYOND WORDS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTIONS BEYOND WORDS?
- FISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $215,104 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTIONS BEYOND WORDS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 1 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