North Carolina · Nonprofit
SALISBURY-ROWAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY
SALISBURY-ROWAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $888,199 to it, the largest being SMART START ROWAN INC ($888,073). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $888k
- Net assets
- $895k
What Salisbury-Rowan Community Action Agency does
Mission
Salisbury-Rowan Community Action Agency is committed to providing education, child care, and other services to the underprivileged residents of salisbury, north carolina and two surrounding counties.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Head start - the Salisbury-Rowan Community Action Agency's (srcaa) head start program promotes the school readiness of children ages birth to 5 from low-income families by enhancing their cognitive, social and emotional development. Srcaa operates twenty-one (21) early childhood centers in five north carolina counties: rowan, davidson, montgomery, moore, and stanly. Approximately 1,098 children are served by srcaa's head start program every year. Srcaa also provides early head start, which serves infants, toddlers, pregnant women and their families who have incomes below the federal poverty level. Head start provides a learning environment that supports children's growth and development in the following areas:-language and literacy-cognition and general knowledge-physical development and health-social and emotional development-approaches to learninghead start provides comprehensive services to enrolled children and their families, which include health, nutrition, social services and other services determined to be necessary by family needs assessments, in addition to education and cognitive development services. Head start services are designed to be responsive to each child and…
$4,494,521 spent$31,811 earned by the program76% of program spendingCommunity services block grant - a federal, anti-poverty program, serving families and individuals in rowan and cabarrus county to obtain self-sufficiency. Comprehensive services are provided in support of obtaining employment, vocational training, and income management.
$806,610 spent14% of program spendingChild care food program - the child and adult care food program (cacfp) is an important nutrition resource for children participating in srcaa's head start program. Approximately 1,098 children 0-5 years of age receive breakfast, lunch and snacks as a result of the program. Each day srcaa serves 3,150 meals, and approximately 463,175 meals are served each year. Children in the head start program receive well-planned meals and snacks that provide a variety of foods and the nutrients needed for good health and energy.the cacfp program provides proper nutrition and plays an essential role in young children's cognitive, social, emotional, and physical health and development. The main goal of the program is to insure that children receive healthful meals and snacks. Staff and parents participate in training and educational programs on nutrition through cacfp. As a participating agency, srcaa maintains records that include daily attendance, meal counts, menus, enrollment and eligibility, along with training documentation for center personnel.
$479,827 spent8% of program spendingOther program services
$144,814 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2020 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,925,772.
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 $2.9M to $1.6M (−43%).
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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SALISBURY-ROWAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Dione Adkins-Tate
Executive director
Board chair
Wendell Fant
Board chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $107k → $129k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SALISBURY-ROWAN 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
SALISBURY-ROWAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 SALISBURY-ROWAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 SALISBURY-ROWAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $126 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SALISBURY-ROWAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,281 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2022
Government funding SALISBURY-ROWAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $64.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$64.4M
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 SALISBURY-ROWAN 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SALISBURY-ROWAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY?
- SALISBURY-ROWAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $888,199 to it, the largest being SMART START ROWAN INC ($888,073). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SALISBURY-ROWAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $888,199 in grants to SALISBURY-ROWAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SALISBURY-ROWAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY?
- SMART START ROWAN INC is the largest funder on record, with $888,073 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SALISBURY-ROWAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 2 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