Action Inc

Analysis

Action Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Butte, MT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1969, 57 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 September 2023, Action Inc reported income of $7.2m and spending of $7.6m, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $5.5m to $7.2m (+32%), an average of +7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Action Inc sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within MT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Many Hands for Haiti ($7.2m), Young Mens Christian Association of Burbank Calif ($7.2m) and Siouxland Human Investment Partnership Inc ($7.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 1.4% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $357k (4.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.7m. At year end it held assets of $5.1m against liabilities of $6.0m, net assets of -$861k. It reported 131 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.