Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,904,880 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($13,450,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.7M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $38M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Center for Community Change Action does
Mission
The Center for Community Change Action builds the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change the policies and institutions that impact their lives.(mission statement continued on schedule o)"community change action" works to dramatically improve material conditions for people struggling to make ends meet in the united states. Our role is to fuse the power of organized people, bold ideas, and political clout - a three-dimensional power that we believe is the recipe for an economy and democracy where everyone has the freedom to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Carry-out an electoral program for lasting civic engagement and grassroots mobilization to promote accountability of elected officials and advance key issues impacting black, latino, and immigrant communities.
$2,726,090 spentof which $1,186,164 as grants39% of program spendingSupporting capacities: supporting each of the organization's core strategies through key bodies of work: strategic communications, digital media, policy and advocacy, and leadership development.
$2,349,811 spentof which $116,000 as grants$18 earned by the program33% of program spendingIncubate movement innovation: acting as a fiscal sponsor for emerging initiatives housed at community change action. All of these projects align with community change action's mission to improve material conditions, reduce inequity, and amplify the voices of vulnerable communities.
$1,086,598 spentof which $611,991 as grants15% of program spendingOther programs
$862,910 spentof which $667,109 as grants12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,025,409.
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 2017 to 2018, from $10M to $14M (+32%).
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.
96% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Lisa Garcia Bedolla
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $692k → $5.3M.
3 of 50 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $625k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Center for Community Change). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 funders by total. 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 CHANGE ACTION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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
99% 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 CHANGE ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 65% · 2019 54% · 2020 43% · 2021 27% · 2022 66% · 2023 75% — diversifying over time.
“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
18% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 CHANGE ACTION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 543 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 543 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 22 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Community Change Voters · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE 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 CHANGE ACTION?
- CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,904,880 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($13,450,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $37,904,880 in grants to CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION?
- OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 50 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