Virginia · Nonprofit
CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC
CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,760,000 to it, the largest being Consumer Brands Association ($1,027,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $252k
What Consumer Action for a Strong Economy Inc does
Mission
Case is committed to serving as the voice of american consumers and wage-earners by advocating strongly for free-markets, fiscal responsibility and reasonable consumer protections. Through these time-tested principles, case aims to create more prosperity and opportunity for every american. Case is further working to fill the void of consumer advocacy organizations who largely ignore free-market solutions and lean heavily toward more government regulation and control over our national, state and local economies. As an aggressive and vocal advocate for less governmnet interference with american enterprise and industry, case seeks to serve the interests of u.s. Consumers through common-sense policies that allow our economy to innovate and expand. Giving consumers more freedom, greater choices, more purchasing options, at less cost.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
After three years of covid-restrained operations, case was finally able to fully resume its extensive advocacy efforts on behalf of u.s. Consumers. Case executed numerous national and state-based public education campaigns across a wide variety of media channels, producing and disseminating pivotal issue analyses to serve as informational resources for consumers, opinion leaders, and industry experts. Case produced tailored and creative public awareness campaigns via digital ads, social media outreach, blogs, op-eds and radio interviews. It also continued existing advocacy efforts by engaging federal and state lawmakers and their staffs in support of free-market solutions on critical consumer issues. This advocacy helped produce major policy victories that favorably affected consumers and their pocketbooks.
$2,101,871 spentof which $1,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,101,871.
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 $109k to $365k (+234%).
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.
100% of CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Gerard Scimeca
Chairman/secretary
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $53k → $1.1M.
From the IRS filings of CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC’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
CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 94% · 2019 87% · 2020 85% · 2021 87% · 2022 85% · 2023 89% — 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.
Where its funders are
CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 5 states in all.
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
CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC: 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 CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC?
- CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,760,000 to it, the largest being Consumer Brands Association ($1,027,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $2,760,000 in grants to CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC?
- Consumer Brands Association is the largest funder on record, with $1,027,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 7 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