North Carolina · Nonprofit
BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,351,341 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($3,715,688). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Blue Ridge Community Action Inc does
Mission
Community services
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community services block grant - designed to help low income individuals improve their housing and nutrition and to provide information to these individuals on alleviating poverty
$544,393 spent5% of program spendingWeatherization programs - designed to provide rehabiliation and weatherization for homes of low income families through grants from the department of energy
$3,597,488 spent36% of program spendingHead start programs - designed to provide comprehensive early childhood development to disadvantaged preshcool children and their families
$3,094,079 spent31% of program spendingOther support of our students
$2,728,253 spent27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,964,213.
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 2020 to 2021, from $13M to $16M (+27%).
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 82% · 2018 78% · 2019 78% · 2020 82% · 2021 72% · 2022 77% · 2023 72% · 2024 71% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
David Martin
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $346k → $727k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION 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
BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 93% · 2019 91% · 2020 96% · 2021 64% · 2022 67% · 2023 67% — 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
33% of BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $210k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $29.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$27.2M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$2.7M
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 BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION 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.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: 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 BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,351,341 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($3,715,688). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $6,351,341 in grants to BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- CWI WORKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,715,688 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing