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ACTION GREENSBORO

EIN 56-2251250 GREENSBORO, NC

Revenue 2025
$1,261,787
Expenses 2025
$1,171,849

Program services were 84.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S21
Classification
1000
Street
122 N ELM ST STE 110

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).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO IMPROVE URBAN LIVABILITY, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, K-12 EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT, AND INITIATIVES TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN COLLEGE AND YOUNG PROFESSIONAL TALENT, IN ORDER TO ENHANCE THE CITY'S ECONOMY AND QUALITY OF LIFE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO IMPROVE URBAN LIVABILITY, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, K-12 EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT, AND INITIATIVES TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN YOUNG PROFESSIONALS, IN ORDER TO ENHANCE THE CITY'S ECONOMY AND QUALITY OF LIFE.

  • CAMPUS GREENSBORO FELLOWS PROGRAM - OFFERS HIGH-QUALITY, PAID INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FROM A POOL OF DIVERSE LOCAL CORPORATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS TO MATCH EMERGING STUDENTS IN PARALLEL FIELDS TO MEET LOCAL INDUSTRY INTERNSHIP NEEDS.

    Expenses $522,729

  • YOUNG PROFESSIONALS - SEEKS TO CONNECT AND DEVELOP THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS IN GREENSBORO. PROMOTES SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING, LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES, AND SERVES AS A CLEARINGHOUSE FOR INFORMATION FOR YOUNG ADULTS. DESIGNED TO ATTRACT, ENGAGE, AND CONNECT YOUNG ADULTS TO GREENSBORO. RECRUITS YOUNG TALENT BACK TO GREENSBORO THROUGH THE BOOMERANG GREENSBORO PROGRAM TO FUEL THE LOCAL WORKFORCE.

    Expenses $268,436

  • BUSINESS & INDUSTRY - OFFERS MULTIPLE PROJECTS, INCLUDING THE GUILFORD COUNTY SALES TAX REFERENDUM ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN , AND INCLUDING SUPPORT OF FAMILY FORWARD NC.

    Expenses $186,519

  • MADE IN GREENSBORO - CREATED TO MARKET AND PROMOTE GREENSBORO WITH A MARKETING CAMPAIGN AND SOCIAL MEDIA TO TELL STORIES ABOUT OUR MAKERS, I.E. INNOVATIVE THINKERS AND DOERS.

    Expenses $10,016

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • SHERRI THOMAS

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PRESTON HAMMOCK

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • IVAN CANADA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID EDWARDS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BETH FISCHER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GEOFF FOSTER

    CHAIR ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JADA HARRIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NANCY KING QUAINTANCE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CC LAMBERTH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • WANDA LEA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MINDY OAKLEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KIM REED

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CLIFFORD THOMPSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VICTOR ISLER

    EX OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TREY DAVIS III

    EX OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JAMES B CHRISTENSEN

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $432,090
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $401,458
    Other
    $30,632
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $302,504 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $72,325 related
    Other
    $0 + $26,629 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $24,500 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $6,132 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $432,090 related

  • CECELIA THOMPSON

    EXECTUIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $175,284
    From this org
    $158,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,884
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $153,600
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $4,800
    Deferred
    $10,752
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,132
    Filer's total
    $175,284

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,261,787
    Expenses
    $1,171,849
    Contributions
    $1,182,588
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,527,507
    Expenses
    $1,359,041
    Contributions
    $1,423,134
    Grants paid
    $145,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,590,893
    Expenses
    $1,346,397
    Contributions
    $1,500,128
    Grants paid
    $25,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,280,541
    Expenses
    $807,621
    Contributions
    $1,257,157
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $1,414,644
    Expenses
    $1,762,363
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,492,627

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,341,202
    Expenses
    $737,023
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,882,699

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,556,838
    Expenses
    $1,711,010
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,234,751

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $940,408
    Expenses
    $751,906
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,389,442

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $928,439
    Expenses
    $673,492
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,201,693

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,537,873
    Expenses
    $5,427,855
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,987,567

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,462,279
    Expenses
    $2,100,280
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,022,294

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,603,458
    Expenses
    $2,195,570
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,743,377

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,402,043
    Expenses
    $1,960,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,481,493

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,207,104
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,458,623

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 2025 return

Declared as related by

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.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

  • GREENSBORO DOWNTOWN GREENWAY LLC

    GREENWAY CONSTRUCTION IN PROGRESS · NC · income $75,640 · assets $6,360,933

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

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.