California · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN
COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN (California) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,883,733 to it, the largest being CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ($4,408,720). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Community Action Marin does
Mission
We make it possible for people in marin to achieve well-being by providing the vital services they need. Together, we break down the barriers that get in the way of fair and lasting change in service to better outcomes for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Enhanced care management: the agency expanded its calaim programming to support children and families, increasing its wraparound support for community members across the county. Centralized client intake: our agency launched an improved centralized client intake process, which allows our client navigators to screen all clients for presumptive eligibility of all services. Employing a digital intake process and our centralized database, we ensure a whole family approach for all our clients.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Children and family services: Community Action Marin has provided high-quality early childhood education to the families of marin for over 30 years using federal, state, and local sources from government and private funders. Cam is the largest provider of free and affordable childcare in the county, serving families of low income from marin city, novato, and san rafael to west marin. Staff ensure that children from infancy to school-age do well in school and life by giving them a safe and high-quality early education. Success coaches across the agency support a comprehensive whole family approach to well-being.
$17,097,394 spentof which $26,352 as grants$4,032 earned by the program57% of program spendingSafety net services: Community Action Marin offers one-time emergency support for clients who need help with rent or mortgage payments, rental deposits and, in limited cases, emergency car repairs, durable medical equipment, or other essential needs. Our safety net services help to keep people out of crisis. This service is for families with children living in the home, veterans, victims of domestic violence, seniors, or disabled adults. The agency is also the local administrator of the federally-funded low-income home energy assistance program (liheap). Reaching over 600 households last year, cam's low-income energy assistance program ensures that families get assistance with utility payments, wood and propane home energy costs. Our services have expanded to support immigrant families that have been impacted by detention, providing one-time emergency cash assistance.
$3,084,082 spentof which $628,536 as grants10% of program spendingHead start & early head start: Community Action Marin is the county's head start/early head start grant recipient, ensuring that children ages 0-5 from income-eligible families get high-quality early education and support with health, nutrition, social services, and family development. We ensure family well-being, positive parent-child relationships, and help to nurture parent connections so that families are successful, people are life-long learners, and community is stronger.
$6,102,475 spent20% of program spendingFood and climate justice: the agency's central kitchen prepares daily breakfast, lunch, and snack for over 500 children in our care. We use fresh ingredients grown in our production farm and school gardens. Early education programs at cam help to educate children about healthy eating and active living, with our appetite for change initiative fostering parent engagement, culturally-appropriate food, and permaculture principles. The kitchen also provides a vital space for select local business owners and entrepreneurs to operate and grow small food service businesses.
$952,213 spentof which $9,879 as grants$221,737 earned by the program3% of program spendingEconomic justice: our agency promotes prosperity and hope through a powerful set of coaching and workforce development programs. Bilingual and bicultural coaches partner with clients for household budgeting, rebuilding credit, managing debt, navigating housing, or getting trained for a new career, helping people to put dreams within reach. Staff and volunteers also provided over 275 people with free tax assistance. Workforce initiatives include peer specialist training and the early childhood education pathways to success state-approved apprenticeship program, among others.
$904,416 spentof which $9,139 as grants3% of program spendingBehavioral health services: the agency's behavioral health services include outreach, peer education and training, and peer-led support for unhoused transitional age youth and adults. We are committed to teaching, empowering, and advocating for our clients to recover in community.
$679,830 spent2% of program spendingHousing justice: Community Action Marin provides outreach and housing stability county-wide. Staff offer housing-based case management, rental assistance, and eviction resources for adults and transitional age youth experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Advocacy efforts focus on tenant protections, housing preservation and production of affordable housing.
$1,003,704 spentof which $284,233 as grants3% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,824,114.
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 2019 to 2020, from $6.5M to $10M (+57%).
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 78% · 2018 84% · 2019 82% · 2020 76% · 2021 81% · 2022 85% · 2023 91% · 2024 89% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN’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. 3 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.
Chief executive
Chandra Alexandre
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $872k → $3.0M.
12 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 MARIN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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 MARIN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
93% 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 MARIN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 32% · 2019 42% · 2020 40% · 2021 34% · 2022 33% · 2023 52% — 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
45% of COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
71% of COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 MARIN has grown faster than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$55.0M
- Department of Agriculture$98k
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 MARIN
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Step Up Community Fund LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: 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 MARIN?
- COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN (California) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,883,733 to it, the largest being CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ($4,408,720). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $15,883,733 in grants to COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN?
- CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,408,720 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 46 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