New York · Nonprofit
TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION INC
TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,363 to it, the largest being ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ($157,363). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.6M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $183k
- Net assets
- $9.0M
What Tompkins Community Action Inc does
Mission
Tompkins community action, inc. (tcaction) "believes an active community can produce powerful change". Located in upstate new york's finger lakes region, tcaction has served the community for over 55 years, implementing programs that create stable support systems to help people move out of poverty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Tompkins community action is a private, not-for profit charitable organization that had its grassroots beginnings in 1964. Originally tompkins county economic opportunity corporation or eoc, as it was known until our official corporate name change to tompkins community action in 1999, began as a local coalition of concerned community members who wanted to improve the lives of low-income families in tompkins county. Formally incorporated in 1966, the agency became part of a national and state network of community action agencies. From a small not-for-profit human service agency, with a yearly budget of approximately $25,000 and a staff of 3.5 employees in 1966 operating two programs, eoc transformed itself and has grown into tompkins community action, a large, multi-faceted community action agency implementing and integrating 21 programs that serve low-income individuals, families, and community collaborations. As one of tompkins county's larger employers, the agency currently has a staff of 110 people who assist 4,000 low-income individuals yearly through a wide variety of programming. We enter this year with renewed commitment to our mission, vision, and strategies for ending…
$8,935,962 spent$480,479 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,935,962.
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 2018 to 2019, from $8.0M to $14M (+73%).
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 89% · 2018 91% · 2019 92% · 2020 94% · 2021 87% · 2022 93% · 2023 87% · 2024 90% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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
Danielle Harrington
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $4k → $0.
From the IRS filings of TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 funders by total. 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
TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
86% 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 TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 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
TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION INC's revenue grew 45% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $43.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$41.3M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.7M
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 TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION INC: 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 TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,363 to it, the largest being ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ($157,363). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $183,363 in grants to TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $157,363 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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