Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $510,263 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF PENNSYLVANIA ($141,736). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $510k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Center for Community Action does
Mission
The Center for Community Action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of the southern alleghenies region. The center also provides services to residents in mifflin and juniata county.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing options - the center provides activities designed to assist low to moderate income participants, including the elderly poor, to obtain and maintain adequate housing and a suitable living environment.
$7,119,785 spentof which $3,998,902 as grants$1,210,206 earned by the program25% of program spendingEmergency services - the center provides financial assistance to eligible households to promote and maintain housing stability including: rental assistance, affordable rental housing, and eviction prevention activities.
$2,060,295 spentof which $1,439,204 as grants$35,465 earned by the program7% of program spendingEmployment - the center provides activities designed to assist low to moderate income participants, including the elderly poor, to secure and retain meaningful employment.
$16,148,338 spentof which $15,065,164 as grants$101,719 earned by the program56% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$3,711,220 spentof which $1,944,794 as grants$463,122 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,039,638.
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 2022 to 2023, from $13M to $7.9M (−40%).
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 87% · 2018 85% · 2019 94% · 2020 96% · 2021 97% · 2022 97% · 2023 95% · 2024 94% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Wendy Welius
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $109k → $10k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 FOR COMMUNITY ACTION’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 FOR COMMUNITY ACTION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
88% 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 FOR COMMUNITY ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2020 93% · 2021 80% · 2022 56% · 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
80% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k 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
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 449 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 449 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.4M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$14.2M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$1.2M
- Department of Agriculture$21k
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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: 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 FOR COMMUNITY ACTION?
- CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $510,263 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF PENNSYLVANIA ($141,736). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $510,263 in grants to CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION?
- UNITED WAY OF PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $141,736 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 12 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