Center for Community Change Action

CharityWatch is unable to provide a letter grade rating for Center for Community Change Action (CCCA) at this time due to our specific concerns about the charity's financial reporting. For this reason we have assigned it a "?" rating for its 2024 fiscal year based on our analysis of the organization's IRS Tax Form 990 and audited financial statements for that period. Specifically, CharityWatch is concerned that the charity could be including certain fundraising expenses in its reported program expenses. 

CharityWatch contacted CCCA on December 8, 2025, via email with questions about its financial reporting for its fiscal year ended September 30, 2024. 

CharityWatch requested clarification regarding the "Other" expenses per IRS Form 990, Part IX, Statement of Functional Expenses, line 11g. CharityWatch's inquiry was as follows:

"...Additionally, we noted the following allocated to the Program Expense portion of line 11g when examining the provided breakouts on Schedule O of CCCA's FY2024 IRS Form 990:

• $782,698 related to 'Consultant Fees'

For all of the above, please provide:

• The types of services provided (e.g., legal, communications, research, IT, campaign support, etc.)
• Whether any services rendered include any fundraising, advertising, or marketing activity that includes a request for donations; and
• Whether any payments were made to professional fundraising companies or third-party development vendors, even if not reported under 'Professional Fundraising Services'
• An indication of whether any of these expenses included any joint costs or fundraising components..."

CCCA reached out on December 10, 2025, and December 12, 2025, to confirm receipt of our inquiry and inform us that they are working on providing a response. As of the date of this note, March 30, 2026, we have not received a response. 

If CCCA provides an adequate response to the above questions in the future, CharityWatch may update CCCA's fiscal 2024 rating at that time.

Note that CharityWatch had previously reached out to Center for Community Change Action. CharityWatch contacted CCCA on November 6th, 2024 via U.S. mail and on November 26th, 2024 via email with questions about its financial reporting for its fiscal year ended September 30, 2023. 

In reference to page 8 of CCCA's IRS tax Form 990, CharityWatch requested a breakout by vendor that reflects how all of the listed independent contractors' consulting work was allocated by function and natural classification in Form 990, Part IX, Statement of Functional Expenses. Furthermore, CharityWatch requested breakouts by function to provide clarification on whether the $829,062 of Other Professional Fees (line 11g) that were allocated to Program expenses consisted of Joint Costs and/or contained any fundraising components.