Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK
FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,034,281 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($25,057,500). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 134
- Grants received
- $152M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Faith in Action Network does
Mission
Faith in action(fia) is an international network of faith-based community organizations working to create innovative solutions to problems facing urban, suburban, and rural communities. Since 1972 fia has successfully worked to increase access to health care, improve public schools, make neighborhoods safer, build affordable housing, redevelop communities and revitalize democracy. Fia network helps engage ordinary people in public life, building a strong legacy of leadership in thousands of local communities across america. Nonpartisan and multicultural, fia network provides an oppportunity for people and congregations to translate their faith in action. More than 40 different religious denominations and faith traditions are part of the fia network. With more 3,000 members institutions representing one million families in 250 cities and 24 states, as well as a growing international network in latin america, the caribbean, africa, and eastern europe.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
National policy and campaigns-in 2024, it was a year of unified action and preparation for our network federations. We convened multiple times as a network with our member organizations to analyze and prepare for issue campaigns across the country. We equipped our 42 federation directors and staff to increase political engagement and education in their local context with their bases. We also convened representatives of the national network including directors, leaders and staff to ratify political and national campaign strategies for the entire network that included a focus on housing, education, climate justice, and mass incarceration. More than 125 people gathered from over 30 federations. It was the first time in years that we voted on a collaborative political strategy.
$2,678,062 spentof which $1,433,389 as grants44% of program spendingNetwork federation support-we conducted a listening campaign with thirty executive directors to ask whether faith in action was adding value, or could add value, to their organization, and if so what should we do differently to help them become more powerful and effective. Simultaneously, our new executive director, often accompanied by board members, began visiting each member federation to hear honest feedback from their boards and staff. We launched a federation first process to focus national staff energy on the needs of our member organizations. Faith in action convened a retreat with executive directors.
$1,780,111 spentof which $450,000 as grants$143,936 earned by the program29% of program spendingInternational-enabled grassroots leaders in 400 communities in 14 countries to organize their neighbors to set priorities, hold their government officials accountable to follow those priorities, and win clean water, new schools, health clinics, roads, and other infrastructure to improve their quality of life.enabled grassroots organizations in latin america, the caribbean, africa and eastern europe to campaign to successfully change public policies to advance the interests of their constituents, including winning land titles for thousands of families in el salvador, and irrigation infrastructure, high quality seeds, and other supports for smallholder farmers in haiti.began new work in colombia, peru, and kenya.
$1,634,602 spentof which $1,041,177 as grants27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,092,775.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $27M to $57M (+109%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 4% · 2020 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK’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. 4 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.
Board chair
Jennifer Jones
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 31 funders, grant income fell $14M → $6.3M.
37 of 134 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $115k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Faith in Action Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK raised.
From the IRS filings of FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 134 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
FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
50% 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 FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 18% · 2019 17% · 2020 14% · 2021 50% · 2022 18% · 2023 32% — broadly stable.
“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 FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK's revenue fell 63% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: 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 FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK?
- FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,034,281 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($25,057,500). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 134 organizations giving $152,034,281 in grants to FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK, 77 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $25,057,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 134 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