California · Nonprofit
CHILDREN NOW ACTION FUND
CHILDREN NOW ACTION FUND (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $650,000 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS ACTION FUND ($650,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $624
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $650k
- Net assets
- $98k
What Children Now Action Fund does
Mission
To promote and advocate for the improvement of children's welfare, particularly children who are poor, and to work for specific public policy initiatives on the behalf of children, and engage in such other activities that are necessary and proper to carry out the foregoing purpose.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Action fund: Children Now Action Fund is a nonprofit, nonpartisan 501(c)(4) organization committed to pushing kids to the top of the public policymaking agenda. The action fund holds policymakers accountable by publishing scorecard and candidate questionnaires that provide information about the most important reforms and investments across kids' issues and how elected officials provided leadership in those issues. The action fund also amplifies the power of the children's movement of california, a network led by children now, an affiliated nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization, by advocating on vital kids' issues.
$244,155 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $244,155.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $435k to $242k (−44%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25k → $200k.
From the IRS filings of CHILDREN NOW 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CHILDREN NOW 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.
Organizations like CHILDREN NOW 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 CHILDREN NOW 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 CHILDREN NOW ACTION FUND?
- CHILDREN NOW ACTION FUND (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $650,000 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS ACTION FUND ($650,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN NOW ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $650,000 in grants to CHILDREN NOW ACTION FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN NOW ACTION FUND?
- THE HEISING-SIMONS ACTION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN NOW 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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