Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ACTION INC
COMMUNITY ACTION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,480,759 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($3,353,582). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Community Action Inc does
Mission
Community action, inc. Partners with community members to improve low- income situations by assisting families with activities to overcome barriers, improve economic status, and enhance their quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Medical transportation - provides non-emergency mileage reimbursement and para-transit transportation to covered services to persons with a valid department of human services pa access card.
$1,300,260 spent$1,300,260 earned by the program32% of program spendingWeatherization project - installs housing materials to reduce energy consumption and health and safety concerns; also provides energy conservation education.
$1,662,108 spent$147,925 earned by the program41% of program spendingHomeless services - provide emergency shelter, transitional housing, help in locating residence, case management, limited financial assistance and advocacy services.
$483,182 spent$65,843 earned by the program12% of program spendingDomestic violence intervention/prevention - provides emergency shelter, 24 hour hotline, educatonal programs, options counseling, legal advocacy and group support to victims of domestic violence. Family/food services - provides limited assistance for rent, mortgage, utility bills, and food; offers assistance in the completion of snap applications. Case management - staff work closely with families to develop goal plans so they may work towards overcoming barriers and achieve self-sufficiency. Housing - maintains decent, safe, and affordable housing. Nurturing parenting - provides home based case management fucusing on parenting work, strategies, and skills. Financial fitness - proides home based case management focused on household spending and budget monitoring. Adult education - provides individual instruction for adults via tutor or classroom to improve skills in reading, math, job readiness, college/technology training, computer, or to prepare for the general education development (ged) exam. Youth opportunities - community action, inc. Partners with others to provide youth with mentoring activities, financial literacy, and work readiness education and skills. Senior corps -…
$652,594 spent$263,681 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,098,144.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.4M to $2.6M (+7%).
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 50% · 2018 43% · 2019 44% · 2020 45% · 2021 54% · 2022 73% · 2023 68% · 2024 63% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of COMMUNITY ACTION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $478k → $396k.
1 of 10 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 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 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 COMMUNITY ACTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
25% of COMMUNITY ACTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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 COMMUNITY ACTION INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
COMMUNITY ACTION INC receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $3.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY ACTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$643k
- Corporation for National and Community Service$523k
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 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 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 COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- COMMUNITY ACTION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,480,759 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($3,353,582). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $3,480,759 in grants to COMMUNITY ACTION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE is the largest funder on record, with $3,353,582 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 10 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