California · Nonprofit
I-ACT
I-ACT (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,898,260 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,500,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $764k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What I-Act does
Mission
Iact's mission is to resource and partner with people affected by war and conflict, to amplify their voices and create opportunities for them to thrive. We do this by listening deeply to their needs, then together, we create safe and joyful programs that include preschools, soccer academies, employment opportunities, and training-all led by the affected communities themselves.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Little ripples - a community-led preschool program that nurtures the cognitive, social, and emotional development of children affected by war and conflict. Iact fills this gap with an innovative play-based preschool program for children ages 3 to 5 called little ripples, built on the idea that evidence-based and trauma-informed educational programs can be accessible and adaptable to any context/for all. Little ripples is designed to be community-led. Through the little ripples training, teachers learn the skills necessary to support young learners and have the opportunity to adapt the curriculum and program to their culture and context. The ultimate goal is for children to have safe and joyful spaces to play and learn. Across eight refugee camps in eastern chad, there are 40 little ripples centers, reaching 1,800 children per year.
$436,061 spent54% of program spendingRefugees united soccer academy - iact is serious about soccer, and serious about creating safe and joyful spaces for play. The refugees united soccer academy (rusa) blends skills, drills, and team-building exercises with a coaching pedagogy designed to support the social and emotional well-being of girls and boys ages 6 to 13. This community-led program is rooted in trauma-informed care, strength-based coaching, gender equality, inclusion, and a uniting passion for soccer. Rusa is led by two men and two women team from the community. Each rusa session begins with a mindfulness exercise, followed by drills that focus on foundational soccer skills and small-sided play. Coaches incorporate lessons around key issues such as hygiene, safety, child rights, peacebuilding, and gender equality. Each academy strives to ensure that at least 50% of players are girls. Rusa is operating in 12 camps in eastern chad, the u.s.-mexico border, central african republic, and cameroon.
$300,366 spent37% of program spendingAmplifi: an iact media project - amplifi is a co-created media project of iact, asking the question: what if conflict-affected communities were resourced to collect and share their own stories with the world? Together with partners and local actors, we are building out a curriculum that will enable those living in hard-to-reach communities to tell their stories in powerful ways. We will train and resource them with the knowledge and equipment needed to record and share their stories - from cell phones, to tripods, to microphones - so the world can hear their voices.
$37,698 spent5% of program spendingOther programs - fiscal sponsee activities from never again coalition and kennedy park football club
$30,045 spent$4,000 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $804,170.
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 2023 to 2024, from $632k to $2.0M (+219%).
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 9% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of I-ACT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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.
Chief executive
Sara-Christine Dallain
Executive director
Board chair
Deborah A Senior
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $160k → $1.8M.
10 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 I-ACT’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
I-ACT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 I-ACT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 42% · 2019 54% · 2020 35% · 2021 37% · 2022 21% · 2023 84% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of I-ACT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
56% of I-ACT'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 $1.7M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside California, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
I-ACT receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3.9M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like I-ACT
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for I-ACT: 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 I-ACT?
- I-ACT (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,898,260 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,500,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does I-ACT have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $3,898,260 in grants to I-ACT, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of I-ACT?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like I-ACT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 27 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