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HOMETOWN ACTION

HOMETOWN ACTION (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,556 to it, the largest being PEOPLE'S ACTION ($92,556). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$24k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$108k
Net assets
$22k
2/3 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Hometown Action does

Mission

Advancing racial, gender, economic, and climate justice in rural and small town communities across Alabama.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.

Program

Grassroots rural organizing around issues of racial, gender, economic, and climate justice.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $68k → $15k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
total
People's Actionunclassified
$93k
$15k
funders
1
3
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HOMETOWN ACTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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

HOMETOWN ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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 HOMETOWN ACTION.

86%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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

HOMETOWN ACTION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 2 states in all.

IL
MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like HOMETOWN 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 Alabama

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOMETOWN 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 HOMETOWN ACTION?
HOMETOWN ACTION (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,556 to it, the largest being PEOPLE'S ACTION ($92,556). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOMETOWN ACTION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $107,556 in grants to HOMETOWN ACTION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOMETOWN ACTION?
PEOPLE'S ACTION is the largest funder on record, with $92,556 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOMETOWN ACTION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), 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