Community in Action

Analysis

Community in Action is a registered charity in United States, based in Ontario, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Community in Action reported income of $6.3m and spending of $5.4m, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $2.8m to $6.3m (+124%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 84%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Community in Action sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 94th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Northridge Hospital Foundation ($6.3m), Community Foundation of Howard County Inc ($6.3m) and Verner ($6.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $964k. At year end it held assets of $3.6m against liabilities of $123k, net assets of $3.5m. It reported 32 employees.