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.
Against its field
CAUSE ACTION FUND has grown faster than half of the 11,946 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement 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.
- The Heising-Simons Action Fundshared fundersportfolio match
- Women Donors Network Actionshared funders
- PICO Californiaportfolio match
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.
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.
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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Heising-Simons Action Fundshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Women Donors Network Actionshared fundersCA · backs 41 organizations that share your funders
- PICO Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Power Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Chamber of Commerceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Civil Liberties Union of Northern Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equis Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Powerca Action Fka Mobilize the Immigrant Vote Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Apartment Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ca Broadband & Video Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Groundswell Action Fundshared fundersCA · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- People's Actionshared fundersIL · backs 20 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 CAUSE ACTION FUND
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.
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.
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 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.
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 5funders 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