California · Nonprofit
MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD aka MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY
MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD aka MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,193 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CALIFORNIA ($237,618). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD aka MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 108 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 108 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Merced Countylocalportfolio match
- Sunlight Givingshared fundersportfolio match
- California Child Care Resource and Referral Networkportfolio match
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.
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 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD aka MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (19% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD aka MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY’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
MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD aka MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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 MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD aka MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY.
“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 MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD aka MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Merced Countylocalportfolio matchCA · funds 34 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sunlight Givingshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- California Child Care Resource and Referral Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Association of Food Banksportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Association of Community Action Agenciesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maine Community Action Association Dba Maine Community Action Partnershipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Loved Twiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Travis Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American River Bank Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Women's Fund of Santa Barbaraportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of the Wine Countryportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Merced CountylocalCA · funds 20 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD aka MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $896k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$896k
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 MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD aka MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Pacheco Place LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD aka MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD aka MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY?
- MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD aka MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,193 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CALIFORNIA ($237,618). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD aka MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $389,193 in grants to MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD aka MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD aka MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CALIFORNIA is the largest funder on record, with $237,618 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD aka MERCED COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY 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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing