California · Nonprofit
COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action
COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,600,885 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($475,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $443k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $566k
What COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action does
Mission
Organized for the purpose of identifying, mentoring and developing leaders through the member institutions to research and find local solutions to six problem areas: Affordable Housing, Community Safety, Economic Development, Healthcare, Immigration and Education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Workforce Development Strategy, July 2023 to June 2024 - Started Economy community listening meetings. During this time COPA launched a Workforce Development Strategy to create a workforce intermediary project with a goal of listening to 5000 community members. Over 800 community members participated in community meetings so far.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOrganizing Training, August 2023-May 2024: COPA has a lot of new leaders who are just entering public life and community organizing. This is fantastic! But it means we need to do more teaching. Starting in late August we had a leaders retreat where we launched a series of training on organizing from house meetings to how to lead a meeting or how to have a conversation based on interests. This has been a mix of 3-part series and single training across two counties and engaged about 200 people.
$0 spent0% of program spendingHousing community meetings, January 2024-May 2024, 125 participants: COPA has been actively working in housing. In Santa Cruz County COPA leaders held a public conversation of community members with city officials to get agreements of local housing efforts. Later, COPA co-led a housing conversation in Monterey with community members and clergy to teach about the potential development of housing in church properties.
$0 spent0% of program spendingAll Other programs
$298,520 spent$111,435 earned by the program100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $298,520.
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 2024 to 2025, from $523k to $577k (+10%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 23% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $36k → $45k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action 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
COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
38% 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 COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 57% · 2019 50% · 2020 75% · 2021 60% · 2022 59% · 2023 56% — 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
29% of COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
100% of COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $447k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action 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 COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action?
- COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,600,885 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($475,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,600,885 in grants to COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action?
- The James Irvine Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $475,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action 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.
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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 11 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