Virginia · Nonprofit
NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC
NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,774,054 to it, the largest being PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VIRGINIA ($3,010,480). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.9M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What New River Community Action Inc does
Mission
Nrca's mission is to promote and support the well-being and self-reliance of individuals, families, and communities. Established in 1965, the agency works in the new river valley of virginia to empower local communities to recognize and alleviate their own poverty conditions. Nrca serves approximately 12,000 low-income individuals per year through a variety of innovative programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Head start program comprehensive development services are provided to eligible preschool children and their families. Family focused services emphasize education, parent involvement, social services and health. Classroom-base and home base options provide each child with a solid foundation for learning.
$3,274,035 spent$2,854 earned by the program44% of program spendingHead start provides comprehensive developmental services to eligible preschool children and their families. Family focused services emphasize education, nutrition, parent engagement, social services and preventive health care. Children's health improvement partnership (chip) provides access to health care for pregnant women and children age birth to six. A nurse and family case manager home visiting team offer parent education and support to help families move toward self-sufficiency. Homeless and housing programs prevent and alleviate homelessness through temporary financial assistance, renter education workshops, housing counseling, and administer housing vouchers. Emergency assistance/food pantries program provides temporary assistance for basic needs such as food, shelter, clothing and prescriptions. Floyd backpack program provides weekend food for eligible school children. Virginia community action reentry system (va cares) assists exoffenders with job readiness training, job search and support groups to assist with successful reintegration into society. Volunteer income tax assistance (vita) provides free tax preparation to low income families for potential increase in…
$2,293,220 spent$233,886 earned by the program31% of program spendingThe chip (children's health improvement partnership) program is a collaboration between new river community action and local public and private health, dental, and human services organizations to help eligible children, ages birth to six and pregnant women in the new river valley, with access to "medical home" (family doctor and dentist) and provides case management services and parent education.
$1,023,970 spent14% of program spendingHomeless programs provide time limited financial assistance to eligible people in the new river valley who are homeless or in imminent danger of becoming homeless. The program provides counseling in four areas: rental, homeless, foreclosure prevention, and post purchase. Counseling is available to all community members. The program also provides educational services workshops for renter education and fair housing. We added the housing choice voucher program (housing connections) which administers section 8 housing vouchers.
$861,393 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,452,618.
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.
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 $3.3M to $4.4M (+32%).
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 94% · 2018 94% · 2019 95% · 2020 92% · 2021 94% · 2022 94% · 2023 90% · 2024 86% · 2025 82%. 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.
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
Jennifer Smith
CEO
Board chair
Laura Walters
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $38k → $591k.
10 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 92% · 2019 95% · 2020 23% · 2021 22% · 2022 74% · 2023 77% — 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
47% of NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
93% of NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$34.3M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$750k
- Department of the Treasury$272k
- Appalachian Regional Commission$25k
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 NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,774,054 to it, the largest being PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VIRGINIA ($3,010,480). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $3,774,054 in grants to NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VIRGINIA is the largest funder on record, with $3,010,480 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 35 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