Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ACTION
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ACTION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $461,650 to it, the largest being Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund ($285,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $462k
- Net assets
- $-361388
What Family Research Council Action does
Mission
Founded in 1992, frc action is the non-profit and tax-exempt legislative action arm of family research council. Its mission is to educate both the general public and cultural leaders (continued on schedule o)about traditional american values and to promote the philosophy of the founding father concerning the nature of ordered liberty. Frc action fortifies the traditional foundations of civil society through its efforts to educate, inform, and influence elected and appointed officials in support of the country's historic ideals of equality under the law, and the unalienable rights of life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General program areas:frc action utilizes personal meetings with legislators, tv, radio and internet ad campaigns, targeted grassroots mobilization, petitions, and more to advocate in favor of pro-family policies. Frc action communicates to grassroots supporters on a regular basis through action update emails, action alerts, and action press releases. At the grassroots level, frc action works daily to impact policy by scoring key votes, sending e-mail alerts to constituents, and working with allied organizations. (continued on schedule o)to accomplish its goals, frc action employs virtually every form of modern media. At the forefront of frc action's efforts is its primary website, frcaction.org, through which constituents can voice their values to their elected officials and other government officials. Frc action utilizes alerts, social media graphics, and informational materials to raise pastors', churches', and individuals' awareness of important developments and issues related to religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and strong families. Through our grassroots alerts, frc action enabled its constituents to contact their elected leaders to urge them to take the right…
$886,337 spent60% of program spendingPray vote stand summit:in october 2024, frc action hosted its pray vote stand summit in washington dc. The summit features dozens of speakers including legislators, leaders in the conservative movement, and pastors.
$333,282 spent$234,799 earned by the program23% of program spendingVoter education and mobilization efforts:frc action conducted outreach with education and advocacy activities where we had opportunities for significant mobilization, by engaging and empowering christians to vote.
$258,270 spentof which $25,000 as grants17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,477,889.
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 $1.2M to $501k (−59%).
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.
83% of FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ACTION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Anthony Perkins
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $145k → $317k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL 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
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 52% · 2021 66% — 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
95% of FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL 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 $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $437k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ACTION's revenue fell 37% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 21 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Family Research Council · exempt
- Family Research Council Action PAC · exempt
- Faith Family Freedom Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL 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 FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ACTION?
- FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ACTION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $461,650 to it, the largest being Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund ($285,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $461,650 in grants to FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ACTION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ACTION?
- Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund is the largest funder on record, with $285,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ACTION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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