Action Nc

Overview

Mission

Action nc is a community organization and citizen action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies - most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and economic concern. Through grassroots outreach and base-building, training and leadership development, and strategic campaign planning and execution, residents work together to determine their priorities and make action plans to win concrete improvements and policy reforms. Our issues include but are not limited to healthcare access, affordable housing and tenant rights, criminal justice reform and police accountability, living wages and more family-friendly workplace policies, immigrant rights, public education equity, and voting rights.

What it reported doing in 2024

Civil rights: our civil rights organizing work falls into several broad categories- criminal justice reform and police accountability, immigrant rights, and racial and gender equity. On criminal justice issues, we worked with community partners and city leaders on funding and implementing violence interruption and crisis intervention programs as well as programs for addressing community violence through established grassroots groups already working in high-crime areas. Our immigrant rights organizing included support for a deportation defense project launched in 2020 to boost legal representation in the local immigration court. While not immigration work per se, many of our immigrant leaders also participated in a campaign to win self-determination for puerto rico, and to protect islanders' pensions from demands made by the fiscal oversight management board for excessive and unjust debt repayment. Our racial and gender equity initiative organized monthly meetings with women across the state on healthcare access and black maternal health issues, criminal justice reform, covid prevention and addressing inequities in our state's response to the crisis. We continued to build rage cohorts in North Carolina counties as part of our drive to expand organizing capacity and advocacy in underserved, high-poverty rural areas.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
272050581
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2011
Headquarters
Charlotte, NC, USA
Phone
7046254050
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 47
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 65
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 41.4%; rating input score 41
  • Program expense ratio: 72.4%; rating input score 72
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 42.8%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -16.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 41.4% of revenue deployed · 72.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $208K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $57K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 11 annual filings from 2013 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • ALEXANDER P MCCOY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $57,173 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.