ACCA - Annandale Christian Community for Action
Legal name: Acca Inc (Annandale Christian Community for Action)
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 540836157
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Annandale, VA, USA
- Phone
- 703-256-0100
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,986,360
- Expenses
- $6,022,579
- Assets
- $4,111,352
- Liabilities
- $529,486
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
49 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ISABEL BALLIVIAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- SUE MAIRENA (PRESIDENT)
- BONNIE LEFBOM (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ISABEL BALLIVIAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $130,908 total reported compensation
- KAREN M BIEBER (PROGRAM MANAGER): $112,362 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
ACCA is a church-related voluntary organization providing day care, food, rental assistance, furniture, and other services to low-income families in the Annandale/Bailey’s Crossroads area. ACCA operates assistance programs and helps to support allied programs that serve community needs by meeting the emergency and critical needs of clients. All ACCA services, except the Child Development Center, are provided by volunteers at no cost to those who need them. For more information about ACCA’s service programs, visit this page. Volunteering ACCA needs volunteers! Over 300 volunteers provide the caring labor, expertise, and administrative support for ACCA programs. Volunteers describe their ACCA work as grace-filled and a most rewarding experience. For more information about volunteering to help ACCA, visit our Volunteer page.
What it reported doing in 2024
Family emergency, nutrition, and special assistance programs provide emergency assistance for rent, utilities, and food for low-income families and individuals who are in need. In fy25, family emergency assistance was provided in the form of payments made directly to vendors, such as landlords and utilities. In addition, acca provided rent and mortgage assistance under the federal coronavirus funds. The food and nutrition program provides food and other essential items to identified families in need. The program provides enough groceries to cover the families for 7 to 10 days and includes canned and fresh foods, meat, vegetables, milk, and other food products, as well as diapers, feminine sanitary products and other household products.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 76% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.3%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
- 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: 99.6%; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.8%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 74.3% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 41 of 41 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $131K · 49 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.