Alabama · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH ALABAMA INC
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH ALABAMA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $454,723 to it, the largest being ALABAMA BUSINESS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND INC ($445,713). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Fairhope Single Tax Corporationlocal
- Iowa Community Action Associationportfolio match
- Iowa Association of Community Action Directorsportfolio match
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.
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 99% · 2018 98% · 2019 97% · 2020 95% · 2021 96% · 2022 90% · 2023 91% · 2024 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $69k → $69k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH ALABAMA INC’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
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH ALABAMA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 99% · 2020 86% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
98% of COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH ALABAMA INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $69 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Fairhope Single Tax CorporationlocalAL · funds 18 organizations near you
- Iowa Community Action Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Association of Community Action Directorsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Community Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wintercare Energy Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Community Action Program Association Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Association of Community Action Agenciesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington State Community Action Partnershipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Connecticut Association for Community Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Massachusetts Association for Community Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lillian C McGowin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Impact 100 Baldwin CountylocalAL · funds 21 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH ALABAMA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$20.3M
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 COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH ALABAMA INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH ALABAMA 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH ALABAMA INC?
- COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH ALABAMA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $454,723 to it, the largest being ALABAMA BUSINESS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND INC ($445,713). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH ALABAMA INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $454,723 in grants to COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH ALABAMA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH ALABAMA INC?
- ALABAMA BUSINESS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $445,713 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH ALABAMA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing