Connecticut · Nonprofit
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,681,745 to it, the largest being THE SASSAFRAS FOUNDATION ($870,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Christian Community Action Inc does
Mission
Christian community action, inc. Is an ecumenical social service organization that expresses faithful witness by providing help, housing, and hope to persons of low-income in new haven.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hillside emergency family shelter has locations at three sites in the hill neighborhood, provides emergency housing in one of 17 furnished apartments and supportive services that include securing and maintaining employment, obtaining basic life skills, and moving to permanent housing.
$857,103 spent41% of program spendingCore (also referred to as the neighborhood assistance program) meets families basic needs through the client-choice food pantry, diaper distribution, assistance with utilities and heating, and referrals for other services. This program also addresses immediate needs of families, senior citizens, and individuals with disabilities in the hill neighborhood; and offers short-term motel placement to families experiencing homelessness in new haven.
$267,718 spent13% of program spendingNew hope (higher opportunities, purpose, and expectations) housing program was started in the second half of 2022. New hope is a "moving-to-work" pilot program, in partnership with elm city communities/housing authority of new haven, which provides housing and supportive services (e.g. Employment related and other services to families that are homeless, or at risk of homelessness) in a furnished apartment (18 total apartments available) for up to 36 months. The program creates and implements a plan to increase family income, stability and level of self-sufficiency.
$544,043 spent$259,530 earned by the program26% of program spendingArise (accessing resources for independence, skill-building, and employment) center meets the employment and supportive needs of families by incorporating a multi-generational approach (I.e. Heads of household and children in organization's housing programs) and through the organization's emergency assistance programs that are designed to prevent a first experience or a return to homelessness. Advocacy and education program seeks to change systems that perpetuate poverty and injustice by using data, creating opportunities for people to use their voices and experiences to improve their quality of life, create a pathway to independence, and engaging in grassroots advocacy through mothers and others for justice (mofj).
$418,599 spent$31,301 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,087,463.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.3M to $2.4M (+81%).
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 46% · 2018 37% · 2019 38% · 2020 47% · 2021 37% · 2022 40% · 2023 31% · 2024 37% · 2025 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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
Charmain Yun
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $146k → $751k.
10 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
44% 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 CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 46% · 2019 32% · 2020 26% · 2021 25% · 2022 37% · 2023 32% — 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
52% of CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
77% of CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $747k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.4M on record — $200k federal, $6.2M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$200k
- State Aid Grants$3.2M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$2.8M
- Board & Care Of Clients$225k
- Reimbursements$12k
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 CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC: 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 CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,681,745 to it, the largest being THE SASSAFRAS FOUNDATION ($870,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $3,681,745 in grants to CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- THE SASSAFRAS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $870,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 39 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