California · Nonprofit
The Community Action League
The Community Action League (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,475,335 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($264,538). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $821k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $131k
What The Community Action League does
Mission
The specific purpose of the corporation is to assist in low income people with community help, development, and services. Helping to produce productive families and individuals. To also encourage persons in training for jobs security, financial planning, housing, healthy living. We provide self-esteem building, communication skills, and parenting classes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Community Action League (TCAL), supervised by the Amity Foundation, met program goals for the Care First Community Investment (CFCI) and Youth Academy/Pathways out of Poverty. TCAL offered leadership, mentoring, digital arts, and peer advocacy to over 50 justice-impacted and high-risk youth and families in Antelope Valley. Participants attended resilience workshops, business startup training, and mental health check-ins. The program successfully reduced recidivism risk, improved social connectedness, and boosted career readiness through creative expression and entrepreneurship.
$143,810 spentof which $143,810 as grants$143,810 earned by the program15% of program spendingTCALs Stop The Hate (STH) program addressed racial bias and hate in the Antelope Valley through community education, bystander intervention training, and healing-centered outreach. Partnering with Cantrell Community Connections, TCAL offered trauma-informed workshops, public awareness campaigns, and culturally responsive engagement. The program reached over 500 residents via town halls, resource fairs, and social media, increasing awareness of hate-prevention resources and improving safety and inclusion for Black and African Heritage residents.
$99,000 spentof which $99,000 as grants$99,000 earned by the program10% of program spendingHelping residents of the Antelope Valley whom are in trouble of losing there homes, getting assistance in restoring Mortgage payments.
$133,931 spentof which $133,931 as grants$133,931 earned by the program14% of program spendingFeeding and clothing the homeless. Over 13,589 were homeless were fed. Also providing shelter for the homeless. Approximately 843 were provided shelter.
$601,460 spent$601,460 earned by the program61% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $978,201.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $249k to $0 (−100%).
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.
0% of The Community Action League’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $10k → $429k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 The Community Action League’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
The Community Action League has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 The Community Action League.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 85% · 2020 50% · 2021 32% · 2022 69% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of The Community Action League's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
98% of The Community Action League's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $526k 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
The Community Action League has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Community Action League
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
100% 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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Community Action League: 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 The Community Action League?
- The Community Action League (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,475,335 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($264,538). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Community Action League have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,475,335 in grants to The Community Action League, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Community Action League?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $264,538 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Community Action League 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 13 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