California · Nonprofit
Redwood Community Action Agency
Redwood Community Action Agency (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $804,840 to it, the largest being ST JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ($383,395). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $805k
- Net assets
- $227k
What Redwood Community Action Agency does
Mission
The purpose of redwood community action agency is to mobilize and coordinate antipoverty resources within Humboldt county, California and to preserve land for scenic, educational and open space opportunities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Community Services Division- Provides oral health education to children and adults countywide through the tooth program; emergency/transitional shelter to families who are homeless with referrals from child welfare services through adult and family services; 10 affect AmeriCorps members at family/community resource centers to strengthen Humboldt county communities and families with parenting lessons, local resources and case management services to help prevent child abuse; financial literacy education that supports client independence and self-sufficiency; case management services for clients transitioning from substance use disorder treatment and rehabilitation. Community services is continually challenging itself to develop and refine strategies that assist families and individuals to move from crisis into stability and building personal assets. RCAA provides continued and targeted support for the development of healthy, stable, thriving community members and along all points of the continuum of care. Community services is committed to identifying any gaps and Providing services and support where necessary.
$1,981,762 spentof which $212,870 as grants17% of program spendingNatural Resources Services (NRS) is committed to working with private landowners, government agencies, timber and fisheries industries, tribes, and community-based groups to promote healthy communities and healthy watersheds. -Watershed services - works with diverse landowners to restore local watersheds, protect water quality, and promote informed communities. In the last three decades, NRS' Watershed Program has designed and implemented several hundred fisheries enhancement, water quality improvement, riparian and wetland restoration, erosion and sediment control, urban stream, and educational projects on the north coast to improve conditions for fish, wildlife, and people. -Active living - fosters local and regional partnerships to cultivate a stronger focus for healthy community design, local food security and community empowerment. NRS' Active Living Program plans and implements projects to support local jurisdictions, residents and grassroots organizations in efforts around the built environment, trails, community gardens, and outreach and education.
$5,888,554 spentof which $239,221 as grants50% of program spendingThe Energy and Environmental Services Division is committed to assisting low to moderate income households reduce their energy burden, improve the health and safety conditions of occupied housing and to foster client self-sufficiency. In support of these goals, we provide the following services in Humboldt County: energy efficiency retrofits, health and safety repairs, utility and energy assistance, client education & advocacy, and other services to people in need.
$2,041,546 spentof which $270,308 as grants17% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$1,765,239 spentof which $156,099 as grants$98,565 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,677,101.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $7.1M to $3.2M (−55%).
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: 2019 92% · 2020 92% · 2021 91% · 2022 91% · 2023 92% · 2024 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Redwood Community Action Agency’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Valerie Martinez
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $135k → $31k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Redwood 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
Redwood Community Action Agency leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 Redwood Community Action Agency.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 75% · 2019 49% · 2020 68% · 2021 40% · 2022 57% · 2023 100% — 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 Redwood Community Action Agency's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
88% of Redwood Community Action Agency's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $249k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Redwood Community Action Agency is better cushioned than half of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Redwood Community Action Agency receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.6M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.1M
- Department of Commerce$1.1M
- Department of Agriculture$567k
- Department of the Interior$419k
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 Redwood Community Action Agency
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Redwood 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Redwood Community Action Agency?
- Redwood Community Action Agency (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $804,840 to it, the largest being ST JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ($383,395). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Redwood Community Action Agency have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $804,840 in grants to Redwood Community Action Agency, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Redwood Community Action Agency?
- ST JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $383,395 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Redwood 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), 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