Texas · Nonprofit
CHRISTMAS IN ACTION
CHRISTMAS IN ACTION (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,489 to it, the largest being The Priddy Foundation ($90,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $234k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $325k
- Net assets
- $196k
What Christmas in Action does
Mission
In partnership with the community, Christmas in Action rehabilitates the homes of low income elderly and low income disabled so that they may continue to live in warmth, safety and independence.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization repaired and painted 77 homes at no cost to the homeowners including 41 contractor services, 24 mission projects, and 12 volunteer projects. 100 volunteers donated over 3,700 hours and their skills to assist the organization with completing this task.
$197,192 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $197,192.
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 $229k to $199k (−13%).
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: 2020 45% · 2021 47% · 2022 52% · 2023 55% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CHRISTMAS IN ACTION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Cassie Ahearn
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $74k → $43k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 CHRISTMAS IN 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
CHRISTMAS IN ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 41% · 2021 44% · 2022 44% · 2023 47% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of CHRISTMAS IN ACTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
100% of CHRISTMAS IN ACTION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k 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
CHRISTMAS IN ACTION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CHRISTMAS IN 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTMAS IN 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 CHRISTMAS IN ACTION?
- CHRISTMAS IN ACTION (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,489 to it, the largest being The Priddy Foundation ($90,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHRISTMAS IN ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $325,489 in grants to CHRISTMAS IN ACTION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTMAS IN ACTION?
- The Priddy Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTMAS IN ACTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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