Louisiana · Nonprofit
TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC
TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,498,228 to it, the largest being AGENDA FOR CHILDREN ($1,410,392). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $35M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Total Community Action Inc does
Mission
Promote and develop economic opportunity in the city of new orleans, to promote the education and welfare of the people of new orleans, and to mobolize such human and financial resources as may be available to combat poverty in new orleans
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Head start program provides comprehensive early child development for disadvantaged pre-school children and their families, since december 31, 2018. The program provided services to 785 infants, todlers and preschoolers aged (six weeks to five yeras-old) and their families.
$14,478,660 spent47% of program spendingProvides various community services to residents of orleans parish, including the weatherization and the community services block grant programs. The organization determined eligibility for 15,963 residents within orleans parish, providing them with access to 85 distinctive services and programs.
$15,935,564 spentof which $10,169,685 as grants51% of program spendingProvides utility assistance to disadvantaged families and the elderly. Tca distributed 16,759 food boxes to individuals/families with low incomes to mitigate food insecurity in our community.
$685,942 spent2% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $31,100,166.
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 $99M to $20M (−80%).
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 97% · 2018 98% · 2019 96% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 83% · 2024 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Thelma French
President/CEO
Board chair
Mr James Singleton
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $221k → $266k.
2 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $338k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Total Community Action Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 20 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
TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 87% · 2020 35% · 2021 73% · 2023 40% — 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
22% of TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
53% of TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k 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
TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $165.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$165.3M
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 TOTAL 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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,498,228 to it, the largest being AGENDA FOR CHILDREN ($1,410,392). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $3,498,228 in grants to TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- AGENDA FOR CHILDREN is the largest funder on record, with $1,410,392 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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