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Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc

Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,094,071 to it, the largest being MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC ($6,731,381). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.8M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$852k
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc does

Mission

To provide economic, educational and housing assistance to individuals who are in need through the resources offered by government and private grants.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Maryland Energy Assistance Program- Provides assistance for low income citizens, including the elderly and the handicapped toward purchasing energy resources.

    $0 spent
  2. Early Head Start- Provides child development pre-school curriculum for young children and low income families. The program also receives the benefit of in-kind contributions of $---- of professional services and $--- of rent reduction.

    $0 spent
  3. Diverson & Re-Entry - Fosters the sucessful integration of returning citizens into the community.

    $0 spent
  4. Other program services include community that provides economic development assistance and empowers families to move out of poverty towards self-efficiency, housing to provide case management services to prevent homelessness, and youth to provide counseling to children, young adults and their families. These programs also receive in-kind contributions of $---- of professional services and $---- of rent reduction.

    $0 spent

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($3.1M) Net assets 100 ($2k)2020 Revenue 109 ($3.4M) Expenses 106 ($3.2M) Net assets 5610 ($133k)2021 Revenue 154 ($4.7M) Expenses 154 ($4.7M) Net assets 6411 ($152k)2022 Revenue 204 ($6.3M) Expenses 188 ($5.8M) Net assets 28940 ($684k)2023 Revenue 136 ($4.2M) Expenses 137 ($4.2M) Net assets 28940 ($684k)2024 Revenue 154 ($4.8M) Expenses 155 ($4.8M) Net assets 36017 ($852k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (154)Expenses (155)Net assets (36017)Peer revenue range

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 $2.3M to $3.1M (+34%).

$1.5M
$2.0M
$2.3M
$3.1M
$3.4M
$3.1M
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 99% · 2020 94% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% · 2024 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’19
$130k
’20
$19k
’21
$533k
’22
$0
’23
$0
’24
0.7
months of
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

Charlestine Fairley

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed14161616141615
Joined·+5+2+0+6+2+3
No longer listed·320804
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $625k → $1.8M.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc’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

Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc.

61%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 94% · 2019 81% · 2020 83% · 2021 61% · 2022 55% · 2023 44% — 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

75% of Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

98% of Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

NY
CA
MD
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $161k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc has grown faster than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $959k on record.

State$959k
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Top programs
  • Grant$959k

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 Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc?
Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,094,071 to it, the largest being MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC ($6,731,381). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $11,094,071 in grants to Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc?
MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,731,381 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 11 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