California · Nonprofit
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,264,277 to it, the largest being BRIGHT FUTURE FUND ($300,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $531k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $291k
What Movement Strategy Center Action Fund does
Mission
Movement Strategy Center Action Fund advances advocacy and civic engagement efforts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization advances social welfare by engaging in advocacy, civic engagement, and public education efforts focused on improving the well-being of children, families, and communities. During the fiscal year, the organization conducted policy advocacy campaigns, community education initiatives, and strategic partnerships to address systemic inequities in health, education, economic opportunity, and community development.(continued on schedule o)specific activities included:- supporting grassroots advocacy campaigns and coalition-building efforts- developing and disseminating educational materials and policy analysis- providing training and capacity-building to community partners- facilitating civic engagement activities such as public forums and policy discussionsthe organization measured its impact through participation levels, number of partners engaged, and progress toward policy and community-driven outcomes.
$478,060 spentof which $18,800 as grants$91 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $478,060.
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 2021 to 2022, from $437k to $32k (−93%).
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.
100% of MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% 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
Carla Dartis
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $88k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND’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
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
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 MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 64% · 2019 69% · 2020 52% · 2021 50% · 2022 44% · 2023 74% — 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
0% of MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $345k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Movement Strategy Center · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND: 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 MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND?
- MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,264,277 to it, the largest being BRIGHT FUTURE FUND ($300,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,264,277 in grants to MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND?
- BRIGHT FUTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND 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 12 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