California · Nonprofit
CAUSE ACTION FUND
CAUSE ACTION FUND (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $233,249 to it, the largest being FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC ($92,662). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $129k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $233k
- Net assets
- $74k
What Cause Action Fund does
Mission
CAUSE Action Fund is a 501(c)4 nonprofit organization dedicated to social economic and environmental justice throughout the Central Coast of California. We educate and mobilize immigrant, working-class and young voters to build grassroots political power and leadership in our communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Educate and mobilize immigrant, working-class and young voters to build grassroots political power and leadership in our communities.
$60,475 spent39% of program spendingEngages a network of grassroots leaders who form an elections committee to interview the candidates in person, asking them about the issues they decide are most important to their community.
$93,269 spent61% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $153,744.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $74k to $121k (+63%).
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 CAUSE ACTION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $43k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of CAUSE ACTION FUND’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
CAUSE ACTION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 CAUSE ACTION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 76% · 2020 87% · 2021 55% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
66% of CAUSE ACTION FUND's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CAUSE ACTION FUND has grown faster than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CAUSE ACTION FUND
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAUSE ACTION FUND: 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 CAUSE ACTION FUND?
- CAUSE ACTION FUND (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $233,249 to it, the largest being FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC ($92,662). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAUSE ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $233,249 in grants to CAUSE ACTION FUND, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAUSE ACTION FUND?
- FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC is the largest funder on record, with $92,662 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAUSE ACTION FUND 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.
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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 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 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