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California Community Action Partnership Association

California Community Action Partnership Association (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($5). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$2.0M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5
Net assets
$1.0M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What California Community Action Partnership Association does

Mission

Provide technical assistance to antipoverty organizations and member agencies enabling these agencies to acquire federal, state, and private funds.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Build the capacity and sustainability of community action through excellent training, technical assistance, education, and outreach. The specific and primary purpose are to assist low income communities by coordinating the efforts of the community action network and other nonprofit organizations with similar goals and objectives to provide for more effective utilization of public and private resources. In concert with these general purposes this corporation shall engage in developing, coordinating, researching, and disseminating information and materials directed towards the reduction of poverty.

    $1,712,375 spentof which $775,769 as grants$350,720 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,712,375.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($787k) Expenses 100 ($762k) Net assets 100 ($289k)2018 Revenue 131 ($1.0M) Expenses 118 ($898k) Net assets 146 ($422k)2019 Revenue 140 ($1.1M) Expenses 127 ($968k) Net assets 193 ($559k)2020 Revenue 102 ($800k) Expenses 100 ($760k) Net assets 196 ($566k)2021 Revenue 143 ($1.1M) Expenses 141 ($1.1M) Net assets 205 ($592k)2022 Revenue 186 ($1.5M) Expenses 159 ($1.2M) Net assets 312 ($904k)2023 Revenue 189 ($1.5M) Expenses 196 ($1.5M) Net assets 306 ($886k)2024 Revenue 260 ($2.0M) Expenses 251 ($1.9M) Net assets 351 ($1.0M)
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Revenue (260)Expenses (251)Net assets (351)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 $675k to $1.0M (+55%).

$353k
$534k
$657k
$656k
$675k
$1.0M
$1.3M
$1.4M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 80% · 2018 84% · 2019 83% · 2021 84% · 2022 82% · 2023 84% · 2024 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of California Community Action Partnership Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’17
$132k
’18
$137k
’19
$40k
’20
$49k
’21
$249k
’22
−$6k
’23
$131k
’24
4.8
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

David Knight

Executive Director

Board chair

Mary Alice Escarsega-Fechner

Board President

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed151411911111111
Joined·+1+4+0+2+0+0+2
No longer listed·2720002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 California Community Action Partnership Association’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

100% of California Community Action Partnership Association's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

California Community Action Partnership Association runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve4.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding California Community Action Partnership Association receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.0M on record.

Federal$6.0M
grants $6.0Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$6.0M

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 California Community Action Partnership Association

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
90%
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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • California Poverty Partnership · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for California Community Action Partnership Association: 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 California Community Action Partnership Association?
California Community Action Partnership Association (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($5). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does California Community Action Partnership Association have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5 in grants to California Community Action Partnership Association.
Who is the largest funder of California Community Action Partnership Association?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like California Community Action Partnership Association 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 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