North Carolina · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ACTION OPPORTUNITIES
COMMUNITY ACTION OPPORTUNITIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,019,743 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($2,654,963). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Community Action Opportunities does
Mission
To help people who live on limited incomes transform their lives our dedicated, diverse and exceptional staff and leadership deliver comprehensive, high quality services, build and support strong partnerships, and mobilize community action to create positive change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Children, family and community partnershipschildren, family and community partnerships (cfcp) utilizes grants and programs such as head start, nc pre-k , and children and adult care food program to provide a comprehensive child and family development program for families with limited incomes who have children ages three to five years old. Focused on the physical, educational, social and emotional growth of children, these programs help parents to assess and meet their family's short-and long-term needs. Experienced classroom teachers plan, assess and record each child's progress and share that information with parents. Children leave these programs prepared for school and life. We welcome families from all racial, religious and cultural groups, including those who speak little or no english or who have children with disabilities. The following activities were accomplished - Community Action Opportunities provided high quality comprehensive health, education, and family support services to 380 children and their families for a 180 day school year. Throughout the year, we maintained over 92.4% of our 525 funded head start enrollment, and provided 109,719 nutritious breakfasts,…
$8,046,688 spent$2,038,285 earned by the program71% of program spendingEconomic developmentthe economic development department of Community Action Opportunities provides services for adults who have a limited income and are ready to make the hard changes necessary to improve their lives and operates programs for making homes safe, healthy and more energy efficient. Community services block grant - life works provides guidance to individuals with limited income who are ready to make the hard changes necessary to improve their lives with the support and resources offered by the program's life coaches, customers reach specific goals within one to three years. Whether it's finding and keeping a better job, enrolling in and graduating from school or vocational training, obtaining safe and affordable housing or building personal and economic strength to stabilize their families. Annually, life works provides families with intensive case management services and other support that for the year ended june 30, 2024 enabled 31 low-income families to overcome obstacles that prevent self-sufficiency and have income over 125% of the us-dhhs poverty income guideline.weatherization services program - the focus of the weatherization assistance program is to provide…
$3,210,216 spent29% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,256,904.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.3M to $4.8M (+46%).
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 82% · 2018 85% · 2019 89% · 2020 88% · 2021 86% · 2022 85% · 2023 85% · 2024 79% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of COMMUNITY ACTION OPPORTUNITIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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
Vicki Heidinger
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $52k → $1.0M.
2 of 8 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 OPPORTUNITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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 OPPORTUNITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of COMMUNITY ACTION OPPORTUNITIES's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 OPPORTUNITIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 OPPORTUNITIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $52.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$52.8M
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 OPPORTUNITIES
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 North Carolina
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
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 OPPORTUNITIES: 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 OPPORTUNITIES?
- COMMUNITY ACTION OPPORTUNITIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,019,743 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($2,654,963). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ACTION OPPORTUNITIES have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $3,019,743 in grants to COMMUNITY ACTION OPPORTUNITIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACTION OPPORTUNITIES?
- DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,654,963 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACTION OPPORTUNITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 8 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