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MACON RUSSELL COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC

MACON RUSSELL COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,729 to it, the largest being ALABAMA BUSINESS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND INC ($157,111). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$189k
Net assets
$614k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Macon Russell Community Action Agency Inc does

Mission

Macon-russel community action agency provides federal and local grant proceeds to the less fortunate. Their primary functions include home energy assistance, emergency assistance, and nutrition assistance.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing services to the poor and elderly in macon and russell counites alabama including low income home energy assistance, emergency assistance, and elderly nutrition.

    $1,346,970 spentof which $1,115,562 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,346,970.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets -90 ($-45264)2018 Revenue 102 ($1.4M) Expenses 93 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($50k)2019 Revenue 111 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 139 ($70k)2020 Revenue 113 ($1.6M) Expenses 105 ($1.6M) Net assets 26 ($13k)2021 Revenue 185 ($2.6M) Expenses 160 ($2.4M) Net assets 297 ($150k)2022 Revenue 194 ($2.7M) Expenses 173 ($2.6M) Net assets 393 ($199k)2023 Revenue 157 ($2.2M) Expenses 133 ($2.0M) Net assets 729 ($368k)2024 Revenue 167 ($2.3M) Expenses 137 ($2.1M) Net assets 1202 ($607k)2025 Revenue 115 ($1.6M) Expenses 105 ($1.6M) Net assets 1216 ($614k)
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Revenue (115)Expenses (105)Net assets (1216)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $357k to $785k (+120%).

$121k
$264k
$266k
$357k
$785k
$801k
$923k
$741k
$914k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 92% · 2018 92% · 2019 94% · 2020 96% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 95% · 2024 94% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$132k
’17
−$6k
’18
$20k
’19
−$18k
’20
$137k
’21
$49k
’22
$169k
’23
$239k
’24
$7k
’25
5.2
months of
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

Angel Walker

Executive director

Board chair

Vivian Covington

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

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Listed151516161717171717
Joined·+5+1+2+5+0+0+1+2
No longer listed·50240012
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $23k → $29k.

From the IRS filings of MACON RUSSELL COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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

MACON RUSSELL COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 73% · 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

90% of MACON RUSSELL COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

NY
AL

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MACON RUSSELL COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC?
MACON RUSSELL COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,729 to it, the largest being ALABAMA BUSINESS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND INC ($157,111). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MACON RUSSELL COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $188,729 in grants to MACON RUSSELL COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MACON RUSSELL COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC?
ALABAMA BUSINESS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $157,111 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
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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 4 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