Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Franciscan Action Network
Franciscan Action Network (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $410,251 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION ($110,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $410k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Franciscan Action Network does
Mission
Inspired by the Gospel of Jesus and the example of Saints Francis and Clare of Assisi, the Franciscan Action Network is a collective Franciscan voice seeking to transform U.S. public policy and to build an intergenerational movement for justice, peace, creation, and human dignity
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On rejuvenating our Network, in October 2025 FAN held its third annual Franciscan Justice Leadership Conference with 150 participants, half of them young adults aged 18-30. The Conference is a major event bringing together college students, Franciscan Justice Circle members, and members of religious congregation for formation, training in nonviolence, and peaceful civic participation. Each year the number of participants and the number of colleges sending groups grow.
$267,607 spent65% of program spendingOn grassroots mobilization, in 2025 our network grew to 27 local affinity groups called Franciscan Justice Circles across the United States. Throughout the year, FAN received more than 900 inquiries about joining Circles, and saw a marked increase in the average number of members in Circles as well as the extent of advocacy activity by Circles.
$90,575 spent22% of program spendingOn faith-based public policy advocacy, in 2025 FAN constituents became more active, particularly on environment, immigration, and poverty alleviation measures. FAN held more webinars educating our members about such issues, and also offered them many occasions of prayer and meditation to prepare for advocacy rooted in the gospel and Franciscan tradition.
$53,521 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $411,703.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $277k to $1.3M (+364%).
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: 2020 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Franciscan Action Network’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% 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.
Chief executive
Michele Dunne
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $24k → $31k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Franciscan Action Network’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
Franciscan Action Network has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
78% 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 Franciscan Action Network.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 48% · 2022 52% · 2023 49% — 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
57% of Franciscan Action Network's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
Franciscan Action Network draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Franciscan Action Network runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Franciscan 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Franciscan 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 Franciscan Action Network?
- Franciscan Action Network (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $410,251 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION ($110,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Franciscan Action Network have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $410,251 in grants to Franciscan Action Network, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Franciscan Action Network?
- CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Franciscan 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 14 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