Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CENTER ACTION FUND
CENTER ACTION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,000 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ($335,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $449k
- Net assets
- $86k
What Center Action Fund does
Mission
The organization's mission is to promote social welfare, including but not limited to 1) advocating for stronger environmental laws and policies to protect wildlife, the environment and human health, 2) educating the public about the importance of strong environmental laws and the threats they face, and 3) advocating for and against legislators and elected officials to further advance strong environmental protections. Center Action Fund primarily focuses on issues relating to protections for endangered species, public lands, clean air, clean water, and a safe climate.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Electioneering: the Center Action Fund made one endorsement in a special election in arizona providing information to the public about the candidates' records of support for environmental protections in that race.
$56,678 spent81% of program spendingSocial welfare: the Center Action Fund tracked the trump administration's implementation of project 2025 and other critical rollbacks of environmental protections, and provided the public and decision-makers information about the consequences of such rollbacks on the environment. The Center Action Fund continues to track and assess all legislative attacks by democratic and republican federal legislators related to (1) endangered species (2) public lands (3) the environmental protection agency (4) the departments of agriculture and interior and (5) climate change. We provide the public with information regarding these legislative efforts to weaken key envrionmental laws, policies, places, and species protections
$13,724 spentof which $6,000 as grants19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $70,402.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $32k to $161k (+400%).
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.
99% of CENTER ACTION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $60k → $200k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 CENTER 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
CENTER ACTION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 CENTER ACTION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 61% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
CENTER ACTION FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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.
Against its field
CENTER ACTION FUND is better cushioned than half of the 2,387 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,387 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Center for Biological Diversity Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER 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 CENTER ACTION FUND?
- CENTER ACTION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,000 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ($335,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $449,000 in grants to CENTER ACTION FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER ACTION FUND?
- CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC is the largest funder on record, with $335,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER ACTION FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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