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COMMUNITY ACTION INC

COMMUNITY ACTION INC (Kansas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,292,084 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC ($3,649,876). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$5.2M
Revenue FY2024
12
Funders on record
$4.3M
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
5/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%

Against its field

COMMUNITY ACTION INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,253 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.5M) Expenses 100 ($5.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 96 ($5.2M) Expenses 98 ($5.3M) Net assets 93 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 84 ($4.6M) Expenses 85 ($4.6M) Net assets 90 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 92 ($5.0M) Expenses 92 ($5.0M) Net assets 93 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 96 ($5.2M) Expenses 94 ($5.1M) Net assets 101 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 111 ($6.0M) Expenses 113 ($6.1M) Net assets 94 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 89 ($4.9M) Expenses 89 ($4.9M) Net assets 150 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 95 ($5.2M) Expenses 93 ($5.1M) Net assets 158 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (95)Expenses (93)Net assets (158)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 83% · 2018 86% · 2019 89% · 2020 89% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 96% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

92% of COMMUNITY ACTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
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$97k
18
$45k
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$43k
20
$113k
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$99k
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$18k
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$108k
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2.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $364k → $472k.

3 of 12 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). Top 11 of 12 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

COMMUNITY ACTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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.

85%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 88% · 2019 90% · 2020 86% · 2021 67% · 2022 70% · 2023 78%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

50% of COMMUNITY ACTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 Kansas funders.

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KS

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Kansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 12 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.7M on record.

Federal$18.7M
grants $18.7Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$18.0M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$698k

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

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 Kansas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 5%Fundraising 1%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

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 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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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 INC?
COMMUNITY ACTION INC (Kansas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,292,084 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC ($3,649,876). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITY ACTION INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $4,292,084 in grants to COMMUNITY ACTION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,649,876 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 Kansas. 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 12funders 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