California · Nonprofit
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,835,854 to it, the largest being Chan Zuckerberg Advocacy ($1,000,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Women Donors Network Actionshared funders
- Power Californiaportfolio match
- California Calls Action Fundportfolio match
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.
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.
98% of Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $155k → $555k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 66%; 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 Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 55% · 2019 35% · 2020 55% · 2021 63% · 2022 22% · 2023 51% — 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
18% of Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
92% of Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 24 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Women Donors Network Actionshared fundersCA · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- Power Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Calls Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian Pacific Environmental Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sajeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Urban Habitat Programportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seiu Local 1021portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Engagement Fundshared fundersNC · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- Way to Win Action Fund Incshared fundersDC · backs 64 organizations that share your funders
- Center for Popular Democracy Incshared fundersNY · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- America Votesshared fundersDC · backs 66 organizations that share your funders
- NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Incshared fundersNY · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Acce Institute · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action?
- Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,835,854 to it, the largest being Chan Zuckerberg Advocacy ($1,000,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $3,835,854 in grants to Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action?
- Chan Zuckerberg Advocacy is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action 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.
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 24funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing