North Carolina · Nonprofit
FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION
FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $974,814 to it, the largest being IMPACT HEALTH ($548,014). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $975k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Four Square Community Action does
Mission
To assist the economically disadvantaged individuals in western north carolina. To participate, plan, conduct and advocate for various programs that advance these individuals general and economic welfare. All fsca clients served reside in the four county region of western nc. (cherokee, clay, graham, and swain).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Hud section 8 rental assistance is provided to eligibile participants in order to obtain affordable, safe and sanitary housing. The majority of clients are elderly, disabled, or families w/ young children. Head start is designed to foster healthy development in low income children. Hs provides early education and school readiness services, along with health, nutrition, and family support, to children and families with low incomes. During the 2024-2025 school year, the program served 162 children. In addition, 198 volunteers supported this work, the majority of whom were current or former hs parents. Community service block grant offers assistance in linking 369 clients with housing, food, emergency utiliity assistance, heating, employment, head start and educational assistance. Weatherization assistance helps low income citizens to save energy and reduce costs. Older adults, people with disabilities, families with children, high-energy users, and energy-burdened households are prioritized. A safer and more secure environment was provided for 27 households. Single family rehabilation provides loan-pool funds to eligible participants to obtain safe and sanitary housing. Clients are…
$6,851,706 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,851,706.
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 $2.0M to $2.7M (+36%).
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
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
Sheila Sutton
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 56% 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 state 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
FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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
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 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.
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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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION?
- FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $974,814 to it, the largest being IMPACT HEALTH ($548,014). 5 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 $974,814 in grants to FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION, 5 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.
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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 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing