EIN 56-1088116

Action Institute NC

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
71
Year formed
1975
Most recent tax filings
2022-12-01
Description
Action Institute NC organizes low-wealth communities of color for social, economic, and racial equity through education, organizing, leadership development, and voter participation.
Total revenues
$1,295,561
2022
Total expenses
$1,518,861
2022
Total assets
$145,863
2022
Num. employees
71
2022

Program areas at Action Institute NC

Voting rights and engagement:action Institute NC works on its own and with allies on voting rights, redistricting, and electoral reforms. We continued to work with a coalition that monitors legislative developments on voting rights and redistricting. This same coalition continues to push for an independent redistricting commission, but we were at the same time educating voters about the existing redistricting process and the likelihood that partisanship would again infect the maps produced by our general assembly. In doing so we helped created a groundswell of activism against the extremely gerrymandered maps our legislature first drew, which now in 2022 have been altered to be much less skewed. We also are working with other groups to remove the prohibition of voting for persons who are currently barred because they remain on probation or parole.
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 that we had proposed for inclusion in the charlotte and mecklenburg county budgets. Our immigrant rights organizing included support for a deportation defense project we launched early in 2020 to boost legal representation in the local immigration court, along with actions we organized for passage of the dream act, and a path to citizenship for daca recipients and essential workers. 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 built new rage cohorts in several eastern north carolina counties as part of our drive to expand organizing capacity and advocacy in underserved, high-poverty rural areas.
Social safety net:healthcare access remains a major focus of our grassroots organizing work, with our priority issues being medicaid expansion, lowering prescription drug costs, and expanding the reach of the affordable care act. We are active with coalition partners in statewide work on medicaid expansion, and with national partners on lowering drug costs and in making the temporary healthcare provisions of the american rescue plan more permanent by including them in a reconciliation bill in congress. We also continue to lead on black maternal health legislation here in north carolina, and to promote reproductive justice at the state and federal level. We have also run a 15-person covid education canvass crew in mecklenburg county which started last may 2021, and an eastern north carolina covid education project with three coalition partners that cover much of the northeastern and southeastern portions of the state. We have encouraged vaccination participation, and organized a number of events where vaccines and other mutual aid like food distribution is available.
Economic justice:the core of our economic justice work is organizing to raise the minimum wage to a living wage and to win fairer workplace policies for women and families. We also organize to increase the availability of affordable housing and to ensure stronger enforcement of tenant protections against evictions, substandard living conditions, and abusive landlords.our tenant organizing and resource center was busy fighting illegal evictions while they were still prohibited during the pandemic emergency, and working with tenant groups around the state to extend the eviction moratorium and get rental assistance out to those who qualified but were having a hard time getting it. We also created a hotline for tenants to call in mecklenburg county, and helped organize a court watch program to assist people facing eviction in the housing court.

Who funds Action Institute NC

Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
GrantmakerDescriptionAmount
Center for Popular Democracy (CPD)Basebuilding General/campaigns - Fed Up,states/innovations - Fight Back!$171,300
Voter Registration ProjectVoter Registration$164,576
Partners in Health A Nonprofit Corporation (PIH)Sub-Grantee To Support the Reaching Equity Through Community-Based Vaccination Engagement and Resourcing (Recover) Initiative To Mobilize the Us Public Health Workforce and Accelerate Vaccine Uptake.$87,274
...and 9 more grants received

Personnel at Action Institute NC

NameTitleCompensation
Alexander McCoyExecutive Director$60,660
Hector VacaTraining and Organizing Director
Robert DawkinsPolitical Director$29,519
Gloria de LosSantos Durham Director
Pat McCoyPast Executive Director$55,624
...and 3 more key personnel

Financials for Action Institute NC

RevenuesFYE 12/2022
Total grants, contributions, etc.$1,295,561
Program services$0
Investment income and dividends$0
Tax-exempt bond proceeds$0
Royalty revenue$0
Net rental income$0
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$0
Net income from fundraising events$0
Net income from gaming activities$0
Net income from sales of inventory$0
Miscellaneous revenues$0
Total revenues$1,295,561

Form 990s for Action Institute NC

Fiscal year endingDate received by IRSFormPDF link
2022-122023-11-14990View PDF
2021-122022-08-11990View PDF
2020-122021-11-15990View PDF
2019-122021-04-01990View PDF
2018-122020-02-05990View PDF
...and 7 more Form 990s
Data update history
January 22, 2024
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2022
January 1, 2024
Received grants
Identified 11 new grant, including a grant for $171,300 from Center for Popular Democracy (CPD)
August 21, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2021
August 17, 2023
Updated personnel
Identified 1 new personnel
July 22, 2023
Received grants
Identified 9 new grant, including a grant for $319,909 from Action NC
Nonprofit Types
Social advocacy organizationsCivil rights and social justice organizationsHeadquarter / parent organizationsCharities
Issues
EducationHuman servicesJobs and employmentCriminal justiceVoting rights
Characteristics
Political advocacyLobbyingGrassroots organizingReceives government fundingCommunity engagement / volunteeringTax deductible donations
General information
Address
1817 Central Ave 211
Charlotte, NC 28205
Metro area
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
County
Mecklenburg County, NC
Website URL
actionnc.org/ 
Phone
(704) 625-4050
IRS details
EIN
56-1088116
Fiscal year end
December
Taxreturn type
Form 990
Year formed
1975
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
R40: Voter Education, Registration
NAICS code, primary
813319: Social Advocacy Organizations
Parent/child status
Central organization
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