Alabama · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ACTION OF ETOWAH COUNTY
COMMUNITY ACTION OF ETOWAH COUNTY (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $134,221 to it, the largest being ALABAMA BUSINESS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND INC ($134,221). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $134k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Community Action of Etowah County does
Mission
To make available federal, state or local resources to assist low-income individuals and families to acquire useful skills and knowledge to gain access to new opportunites and achieve economic self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community service block grant programs provide assistance to low income individuals and families attain self-sufficency and provide emergency assistance
$205,424 spent14% of program spendingLow income home energy assistance program help people meet the cost of home energy
$1,261,888 spent86% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,467,312.
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 2021 to 2022, from $433k to $836k (+93%).
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: 2019 96% · 2020 97% · 2021 96% · 2023 98% · 2024 97% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of COMMUNITY ACTION OF ETOWAH COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% 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.
Chief executive
Gary Lewis
Executive director
Board chair
Gail Minshew
Chairwoman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $22k → $28k.
From the IRS filings of COMMUNITY ACTION OF ETOWAH COUNTY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of COMMUNITY ACTION OF ETOWAH COUNTY's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 OF ETOWAH COUNTY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITY ACTION OF ETOWAH COUNTY
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 Alabama
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
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 OF ETOWAH COUNTY: 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 OF ETOWAH COUNTY?
- COMMUNITY ACTION OF ETOWAH COUNTY (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $134,221 to it, the largest being ALABAMA BUSINESS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND INC ($134,221). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ACTION OF ETOWAH COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $134,221 in grants to COMMUNITY ACTION OF ETOWAH COUNTY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACTION OF ETOWAH COUNTY?
- ALABAMA BUSINESS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $134,221 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACTION OF ETOWAH COUNTY 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.
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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 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing