Iowa · Public charity
Iowa Community Action Association
Educating, advocating for, and connecting community action agencies to amplify a unified voice in service of iowans facing economic hardship.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $71,916
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $260,240
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $534k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Iowa Community Action Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $1.8M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $820k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $1.4M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $3.1M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $5.7M | 0% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Impact Community Action Partnership Inc | $3,597,455 | 8 | 16% |
| Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc | $2,498,331 | 8 | 10% |
| Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc | $1,998,029 | 8 | 2% |
| Upper Des Moines Opportunity Inc | $1,128,650 | 8 | 3% |
| Southern Iowa Economic Development Association | $969,192 | 8 | 2% |
| Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp | $945,717 | 8 | 3% |
| Operation Threshold Inc | $928,487 | 8 | 2% |
| Community Action of Southeast Iowa | $860,692 | 8 | 1% |
| North Iowa Community Action Organization | $833,465 | 8 | 3% |
| West Central Community Action | $778,739 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Impact Community Action Partnership Inc | $3,597,455 | 8 | 16% |
| Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc | $2,498,331 | 8 | 10% |
| Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc | $1,998,029 | 8 | 2% |
| Upper Des Moines Opportunity Inc | $1,128,650 | 8 | 3% |
| Southern Iowa Economic Development Association | $969,192 | 8 | 2% |
| Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp | $945,717 | 8 | 3% |
| Operation Threshold Inc | $928,487 | 8 | 2% |
| Community Action of Southeast Iowa | $860,692 | 8 | 1% |
| North Iowa Community Action Organization | $833,465 | 8 | 3% |
| West Central Community Action | $778,739 | 8 | 1% |
| Community Action of Eastern Iowa | $693,815 | 8 | 1% |
| South Central Iowa Community Action Program Inc | $485,643 | 8 | 2% |
| Community Action Agency of Siouxland | $470,458 | 8 | 1% |
| Community Opportunities Inc | $415,784 | 8 | 1% |
| Matura Action Corporation | $262,512 | 8 | 1% |
| Mid-Sioux Opportunity Inc | $248,071 | 8 | 1% |
| Young Parents Network | $113,558 | 1 | 10% |
| Operation New View Community Action Foundation | $99,327 | 4 | n/a |
| Northeast Iowa Food Bank | $61,610 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Iowa Community Action Association supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Iowa Association of Community Action Directors · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · National Philanthropic Trust · Land O'Lakes Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Iowa Community Action Association
- How much does Iowa Community Action Association give?
- Iowa Community Action Association reported 18 grants totaling $1,780,008 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Iowa Community Action Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (47%), Community Improvement (22%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are Iowa Community Action Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Impact Community Action Partnership Inc ($3.6M), Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc ($2.5M), Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc ($2.0M).
- Does Iowa Community Action Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Iowa Community Action Association?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Iowa Association of Community Action Directors, Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn.
- Where is Iowa Community Action Association based?
- Iowa Community Action Association is based in IA.
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