Wisconsin · Nonprofit
ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,461,061 to it, the largest being Wells Fargo Foundation ($2,872,500). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 91
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Acts Community Development Corporation does
Mission
Acts housing's mission is empowerment through homeownership.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Real estate brokerage - acts home sales team represents families and individuals in real estate sales transactions. As licensed realtors, they support families in finding homes that meet their needs and then ensure that families are well represented in their real estate transactions. In 2024, 71 families families used acts' real estate services to purchase their homes.
$783,140 spent$381,416 earned by the program4% of program spendingHomebuyer coaching - homebuyer coaches provide families with confidential, one-on-one and group sessions designed to support families to improve their financial condition and prepare to be succesful homeowners. In 2024 2,573 families started homebuyer coaching and 310 families were successful in becoming first-time homebuyers.
$15,921,237 spentof which $14,374,642 as grants$73,588 earned by the program91% of program spendingHome rehab coaching - acts home rehab coaching staff represents families and individuals during coordination and execution of rehab plans. As experienced rehab professionals, staff support families in planning all repairs needed for decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable occupancy. In 2024, 82 families received these services.
$845,334 spentof which $85,174 as grants$16,000 earned by the program5% of program spendingSales of home properties
$529,896 earned by the programMiscellaneous income
$27,442 earned by the program
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,549,711.
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 2021 to 2022, from $7.6M to $12M (+55%).
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 1% · 2018 8% · 2019 10% · 2020 8% · 2021 21% · 2022 15% · 2023 14% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Michael Gosman
President & CEO
Board chair
Heather Ramirez
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $266k → $3.2M.
21 of 91 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 91 funders by total. 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
ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
53% 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 ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 39% · 2019 43% · 2020 18% · 2021 20% · 2022 29% · 2023 28% — 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
43% of ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
64% of ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 818 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 818 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $227k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$227k
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 ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 2 related entities
- Acts Lending Inc · exempt
- Acts Homeownership Acquisitions Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: 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 ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,461,061 to it, the largest being Wells Fargo Foundation ($2,872,500). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 91 organizations giving $21,461,061 in grants to ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- Wells Fargo Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,872,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 91 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing