Texas · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS
COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,442,569 to it, the largest being ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ($2,845,230). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $898k
What Community Action Inc of Central Texas does
Mission
Established in 1965, community action, inc. Of central texas has continuously worked to assist low to moderate income families in central texas by providing a variety of social services and economic opportunities. The agency has four areas of operation: health services; early childhood education; adult education; and community services. Each area has a leadership team that is responsible for the achievement of specific outcomes detailed in the agency's strategic plan. Community action employees mobilize local, state, and national resources to provide & develop opportunities for individuals and families to become self- sufficient.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The early childhood education (head start/early head start, and texas home visiting) head start program provides continuous, intensive and comprehensive child development and family support services to economically disadvantaged families with children between the ages of birth-to-five years and pregnant women. The head start program supports children's growth and development in a positive learning environment through a variety of services that include early learning, health and nutrition services, and child and family well-being. Annually, community action serves 447 children ages birth-to-five years and pregnant women at 12 head start program child development centers in hays and caldwell counties. The texas home-visiting program provides intensive and comprehensive child development and family support homebased services to families with children between the ages of birth-to-five years. Annually, community action serves 203 families and children in home-based programs in hays county.
$9,668,933 spent61% of program spendingThe community services program provides a variety of services that include energy assistance programs to help low-income households with energy costs; comprehensive case management services for families working toward self- sufficiency; and a senior citizen center. The energy assistance programs utilize local and state resources to provide funding for households with the highest energy needs in hays, caldwell, and blanco counties. Comprehensive case management is a unique program that works closely with individuals and families working towards becoming self-sufficient by providing a variety of support that enables them to succeed in obtaining a living wage job, and money management skills. The san marcos senior citizen center provides fellowship, activities, and congregate meals to enhance the quality of life, support, independence and to encourage continued involvement in and with the community.
$2,165,744 spentof which $1,061,179 as grants14% of program spendingCommunity action, inc.'s adult education program provides services in the ten counties surrounding travis county. Its core services include high school equivalency (hse) preparation, english as a second language (esl), and job training necessary for transitioning into employment, career advancement, and lifelong learning. It provides services to adults with limited mastery of basic educational skills; adults who do not have a secondary school diploma; or who are unable to speak, read or write the english language. The program offers college preparation classes to assist those who wish to pursue an advanced degree. Day and evening classes are available in the rural capital workforce area. Computer literacy instruction is offered intermittently at designated sites.
$2,810,695 spent18% of program spendingCommunity health services provides a variety of services that include reproductive health services; breast cancer awareness and breast cancer case management services; prescription assistance; and hiv/aids awareness, testing and case management. Reproductive health care for men and women include a wide variety of birth control methods. Other services include well woman exams; pregnancy testing; sexually transmitted infections testing & treatment. Fees are based on a sliding fee scale and we accept medicaid and healthy texas women. The breast cancer program includes screening for breast cancer. Case management is provided if diagnosed with cancer. Hiv/aids services includes case management for hiv positive individuals in the eight counties surrounding travis co. Case management includes transportation to medical appointments and other support
$1,178,570 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,823,942.
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 2018 to 2019, from $2.6M to $3.3M (+27%).
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 93% · 2018 95% · 2019 97% · 2020 97% · 2021 96% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% · 2024 91% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Diane Insley
Chair/presid
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $218k → $307k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 OF CENTRAL TEXAS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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 OF CENTRAL TEXAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 OF CENTRAL TEXAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 69% · 2019 62% · 2020 64% · 2021 47% · 2022 56% · 2023 45% — 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
63% of COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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 OF CENTRAL TEXAS's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $242k 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
COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $68.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$68.1M
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 OF CENTRAL TEXAS
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS?
- COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,442,569 to it, the largest being ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ($2,845,230). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $5,442,569 in grants to COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS?
- ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,845,230 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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