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ACTION NOW INC

EIN 45-4083809 HOUSTON, TX

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Revenue 2024
$11,013,735
Expenses 2024
$10,947,113

Program services were 99.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
R01
Classification
3000
Street
1717 WEST LOOP S STE 1800

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 1800). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

ACTION NOW INC.'S PHILANTHROPIC WORK TACKLES SOME OF THE MOST PRESSING PROBLEMS IN THE UNITED STATES. WE FOCUS ON CORRECTING SYSTEMIC FAILURES THROUGH EVIDENCE-BASED SOLUTIONS.

  • ACTION NOW, INC. INVESTS IN EVIDENCE-BASED SOLUTIONS THAT MAXIMIZE OPPORTUNITY AND MINIMIZE INJUSTICE. ACTION NOW, INC. INVESTS IN SUSTAINABLE CHANGE, BUILDING IT FROM THE GROUND UP BASED ON RESEARCH, DEEP THINKING, AND A STRONG FOUNDATION OF EVIDENCE TO DRIVE PUBLIC CONVERSATION, CRAFT POLICY, AND INSPIRE ACTION THROUGH EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY.

    Expenses $10,932,253 · Grants $10,877,253

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Kelli Rhee

    PRESIDENT AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related
  • Elizabeth Banks

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related
  • John Arnold

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related
  • Laura Arnold

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related
  • Roxanne Almaraz

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $11,013,735
    Expenses
    $10,947,113
    Contributions
    $10,950,000
    Grants paid
    $10,877,253
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,577,720
    Expenses
    $3,738,775
    Contributions
    $3,500,000
    Grants paid
    $3,519,330
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $13,562,786
    Expenses
    $10,414,516
    Contributions
    $13,540,000
    Grants paid
    $10,107,281

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,900,044
    Expenses
    $1,710,061
    Assets (EOY)
    $249,966
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $188
    Expenses
    $8,693
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,983

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

  • UNITE AMERICA

    $3,000,000

    2022 TO SUPPORT NEVADA'S FINAL FIVE BALLOT MEASURE.

  • 2024 TO SUPPORT GRANTEE'S ADVOCACY EFFORTS TO REMOVE REGULATORY BARRIERS TO EXPAND THE SUPPLY OF HOUSING ACROSS A DIVERSE ARRAY OF STATES AND MUNICIPALITIES.

  • 2022 TO SUPPORT THE EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY ACTIVITIES RELATED TO ADVANCING BALLOT MEASURE 2 IMPLEMENTATION AND RANKED CHOICE VOTING IN ALASKA.

  • 2024 TO SUPPORT GRANTEE'S EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN AROUND ENACTING HOSPITAL SITE NEUTRAL PAYMENT POLICIES, INCLUDING CRACKING DOWN ON ABUSIVE FACILITY FEES.

  • 2024 TO SUPPORT GRANTEE'S EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY ON SITE-NEUTRAL POLICY REFORM.

  • CONTINUUM HEALTH GROUP LLC

    $647,987

    2023 TO SUPPORT EDUCATION AND ISSUE ADVOCACY TO IMPROVE THE USE OF REAL-WORLD EVIDENCE, TRANSPARENCY IN CLINICAL TRIAL DATA, AND THE U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION'S EVIDENCE STANDARDS.

  • 2022 TO ADVANCE RANKED CHOICE VOTING IN MINNESOTA.

  • 2024 TO SUPPORT GRANTEE'S EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY SURROUNDING SITE-NEUTRAL PRICING POLICIES.

  • 2022 TO PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT.

  • 2022 TO SUPPORT THE HOSPITAL VALUE CAMPAIGN IN TEXAS.

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related partnerships on its 2024 return

  • HOFFER CO-INVEST LP

    RELATED PARTY INVESTMENT · TX

  • WEST STREET REIP TAX EXEMPT LP

    RELATED PARTY INVESTMENT · NJ

  • WEST STREET CAPITAL PARTNERS VIII PARALLEL LP

    RELATED PARTY INVESTMENT · NJ

  • BLUE OWL REAL ESTATE MARITIME OPPORTUNITY FUND LP

    RELATED PARTY INVESTMENT · IL

  • EOC PARTNERS FUND - C LP

    RELATED PARTY INVESTMENT · TX

  • BTOF (JUNO FEEDER)(CYM) LP

    RELATED PARTY INVESTMENT · CJ

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • ARNOLD VENTURES INC

    C · PHILANTHROPIC MANAGEMENT · TX · controlled entity

  • GS HORIZON ENVIRONMENTAL & CLIMATE SOLUTIONS LP

    C · RELATED PARTY INVESTMENT · CJ · controlled entity

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.