California · Nonprofit
Roots Action Education Fund
Roots Action Education Fund (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,127,690 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY ($800,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $418k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $305k
What Roots Action Education Fund does
Mission
Educate public in areas of government accountability, non-violent conflict resolution and civic engagement on a range of subjects. Dollars spent support direct public education in forms of online & public forums.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Encouraging active civil engagement in public dialogue about matters of consequence for the United States. Informing Americans about options and resources for participating in local and national discourse.
$402,829 spent63% of program spendingInforming the public about human rights issues. Providing updates about developments and concerns for protection of liberty.
$198,217 spent31% of program spendingEducating the public about the important role of the First Amendment and other constitutional provisions for freedom.
$38,365 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $639,411.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $660k to $305k (−54%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Roots Action Education Fund’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Alice Chan
Chair Person
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $230k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Roots Action Education 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
Roots Action Education Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 Roots Action Education Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 79% · 2021 58% · 2022 81% · 2023 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
83% of Roots Action Education Fund's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $161k 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
Roots Action Education Fund's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Roots Action Education 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
83% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Roots Action Education 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 Roots Action Education Fund?
- Roots Action Education Fund (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,127,690 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY ($800,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Roots Action Education Fund have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,127,690 in grants to Roots Action Education Fund, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Roots Action Education Fund?
- INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Roots Action Education 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.
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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 2020–2024), and the filings of 7 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