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COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY (California) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,825,776 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($1,519,031). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $45M
- Funders on record
- 107
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Community Action Partnership of Orange County does
Mission
Cap ocs mission is to enhance the quality of life within orange county by eliminiating and preventing the causes and effects of poverty by mobilizing and directing resources to programs that assist, educate and promote self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our food bank conducts food distribution, provides assistance with enrolling clients into food stamps and provides emergency food assistance. 23,995,804 pounds of food were distributed in 2024 to low- income food insecure families, children and seniors through over 200 charities, shelters, and food pantries. Our food bank also provided emergency food to 844,850 individuals and families with children from the tefap and emergency food and shelter program (efsp). Food boxes were directly distributed to 23,064 seniors aged 60 years and over through our monthly commodity supplemental food program (csfp) to prevent hunger and malnutrition. Our supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap) outreach program assisted 2,459 low-income individuals to enroll into the supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap) obtaining $565,890 in aggregated food stamp benefits. Partnering with the california association of food banks (cafb) and network for a healthy california, the oc food banks farm to family program provides fresh fruits and vegetables to seniors, families and school-aged children in low-income neighborhoods and schools. Many of these families have trouble affording and purchasing…
$27,169,087 spentof which $20,404,852 as grants$775,597 earned by the program69% of program spendingEnergy and environmental services provide programs and services to improve housing conditions and reduce energy burdens for low-income households. In 2024, energy and conservations services assisted 11,455 households obtain emergency gas/electric utility payments (funded by liheap and other public and private funding sources) to avert crisis. Weatherization services such as heating and cooling energy improvements was provided to 107 low-income homes.
$8,761,854 spentof which $1,652,736 as grants$20,000 earned by the program22% of program spendingThe agencys youth and families program department (yfp) helps low- income families and communities thrive. They leverage other community resources (both public and private) to develop and sustain operational linkages between our core anti-poverty services. Partners include community based organizations, oc food access coalition; social services agency of orange county, etc. Cap oc and yfp also work with local municipalities and community leaders in target cities to improve the well-being of underserved populations. Our two fact-funded family resource centers, anaheim independencia (aifrc) and el modena family resource center (emfrc) as well as southwest community center (swcc) operate after school and teen programs to provide tutoring and socio-recreational activities for at- risk youth. Our southwest community center (swcc) continues to operate the homeless food distribution program resulting in 76,746 meals served in 2024 (duplicated count). In 2024, 179 youth were enrolled in youth programs. The centers also provide job skills training & family support services: 12 households achieved safe and affordable housing; 50 individuals and families saw improved financial well-being…
$3,584,752 spent$142,019 earned by the program9% of program spendingOur agency program coordinates programs with other agencies for transportation, counseling employment training, shelter and environmental health. 42,444 individuals received information and referral services through multiple agency programs.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,515,693.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $21M to $30M (+41%).
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 91% · 2018 93% · 2019 85% · 2020 83% · 2021 85% · 2022 89% · 2023 92% · 2024 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Gregory Scott
President & CEO
Board chair
Irene Basdakis
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $343k → $2.2M.
19 of 107 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 107 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 PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
77% 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 PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 30% · 2019 47% · 2020 12% · 2021 21% · 2022 38% · 2023 27% — 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
38% of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
82% of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Government funding COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.4M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$850k
- Department of Agriculture$432k
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 PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE 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 California
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY?
- COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY (California) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,825,776 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($1,519,031). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 107 organizations giving $10,825,776 in grants to COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY?
- THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,519,031 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY 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.
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 107 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