North Carolina · Nonprofit
FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION
FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $947,514 to it, the largest being IMPACT HEALTH ($548,014). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Dub and Murray Martin Cherokeelocal
- Virginia Community Action Partnership Incportfolio match
- North Carolina Coalition to End Homportfolio match
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.
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 95% · 2018 94% · 2019 97% · 2020 99% · 2021 97% · 2022 94% · 2023 88% · 2024 95% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $146k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 78% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Dub and Murray Martin CherokeelocalMO · funds 10 organizations near you
- Virginia Community Action Partnership Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina Coalition to End Homportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Discovery of Virginia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Forsyth County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Association of Community Action Agenciesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Goodwill Industries of Northwest North Carolina Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Association of Community Action Agenciesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Housing Assistance Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cwi Works Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Enact Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Carolina Association for Community Economic Developmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$13.7M
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 FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION?
- FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $947,514 to it, the largest being IMPACT HEALTH ($548,014). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $947,514 in grants to FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION?
- IMPACT HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $548,014 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing