Oregon · Nonprofit
Community in Action
Community in Action (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,234,968 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,177,200). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Community in Action does
Mission
To operate programs to alleviate poverty and enhance the public health and welfare by opening to everyone the opportunity for education and training, the opportunity to work and the opportunity to live in decency and dignity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
ADMINISTRATION OF THE Low Income Housing Energy Assistance PROGRAM. This is to provide financial support to individuals to assist in paying utility bills.
$1,672,235 spentof which $263,992 as grants30% of program spendingAdministration of the Emergency Shelter Grant Program to support individuals that need assistance with rent.
$6,926 spentof which $6,276 as grants0% of program spendingAdministration of community development block grant
$278,900 spent5% of program spendingAdministration of all other grants.
$3,580,005 spentof which $2,359,159 as grants65% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,538,066.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.9M to $3.6M (+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 96% · 2018 98% · 2019 89% · 2020 89% · 2021 95% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Community in Action’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Jody Warnock
Executive Director
Board chair
Ron Verini
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $145k → $672k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 in Action’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.
How concentrated its funding is
Community in Action leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 in Action.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 66% · 2019 51% · 2020 67% · 2021 83% · 2022 64% · 2023 89% — 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
60% of Community in Action's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
53% of Community in Action's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 in Action has grown faster than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Community in Action receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.3M on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$26.4M
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$495k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$457k
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$1k
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 in Action
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 Oregon
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 in Action: 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 in Action?
- Community in Action (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,234,968 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,177,200). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Community in Action have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,234,968 in grants to Community in Action, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community in Action?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,177,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community in Action find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 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