California · Nonprofit
SPIRIT IN ACTION
SPIRIT IN ACTION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $480,074 to it, the largest being THE LORING WOLCOTT & COOLIDGE CHARITABLE TRUST-I ($232,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $480k
- Net assets
- $923k
What Spirit in Action does
Program
Provides grants to individuals and organizations in under-developed countries to start new businesses, in order to accomplish Spirit in Action's exempt purpose of providing relief of poverty and human distress.
$140,873 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 2019 to 2020, from $624k to $934k (+50%).
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
Tanya Cothran
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $115k → $83k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 SPIRIT IN ACTION’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
SPIRIT IN ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 SPIRIT IN ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 92% · 2020 66% · 2021 72% · 2022 47% · 2023 68% — 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
SPIRIT IN ACTION draws 100% 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. $206k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SPIRIT IN ACTION is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SPIRIT IN ACTION
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPIRIT IN ACTION: 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 SPIRIT IN ACTION?
- SPIRIT IN ACTION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $480,074 to it, the largest being THE LORING WOLCOTT & COOLIDGE CHARITABLE TRUST-I ($232,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPIRIT IN ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $480,074 in grants to SPIRIT IN ACTION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPIRIT IN ACTION?
- THE LORING WOLCOTT & COOLIDGE CHARITABLE TRUST-I is the largest funder on record, with $232,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPIRIT IN ACTION 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 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