Act 4 SA

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871045068
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
San Antonio, TX, USA
Phone
2107265188
Rating
61
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$412,621
Expenses
$456,401
Assets
$64,077
Liabilities
$7,000

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Trent Breitung (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Ananda Tomas (Executive Dir.): $87,733 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

ACT 4 SA empowers the San Antonio community through year-round base building, actions of solidarity, public education, policy, and advocacy. We are dedicated to pushing for accountable, compassionate, and transparent measures to create public safety that preserves and centers the health and well-being of our entire community.

What it reported doing in 2025

Advocacy & Community Engagement - Immigrant & Queer Know Your Rights & Advocacy: Following a surge in ICE raids and attacks on LGBTQIA+ rights, ACT 4 SA rapidly deployed Know Your Rights workshops in English and Spanish, distributed thousands of red cards citywide, and distributed Protestor Know Your Rights flyers at major demonstrations. We co-hosted a free ""Ask an Immigration Lawyer"" event and held a specialized Know Your Rights session for queer communities during Pride. In partnership with community organizations, we educated San Antonians on warrants, immigration policies, and protecting themselves during law enforcement interactions. Community Legal Clinic: ACT 4 SA co-hosted a free, family-friendly Community Legal Fair with All of Us or None Texas, Black Voters Matter, and Growing Real Alternatives Everywhere (GRAE). Participants included Judge Ron Rangel, Texas Organizing Project, the Managed Assigned Counsel Office, and Easy Expunctions. We provided resources on warrant resolution, expungement of arrest/conviction records, court-appointed attorney assistance, and early probation termination for those affected by incarceration. Community Outreach Tabling: ACT 4 SA tabled at over 16 community events handing out programmatic information, scan to take action flyers, resource lists, red cards, organizational swag, and more. We were able to recruit many interested volunteers and even some new coalition partners through these events. Events ranged from Pride events, to community resource fairs, poetry events, family-friendly community events, book fairs, and more.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% 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.

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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 50
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 74
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 53.2%; rating input score 53
  • Program expense ratio: 48.1%; rating input score 48
  • Fundraising efficiency: $12.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -10.6%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -37.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 53.2% of revenue deployed · 48.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $220K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $88K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.