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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 FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$260k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$7.3MCommunity Improvement$3.5MHuman Services$2.6MHousing & Shelter$2.2M
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $178k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $260k
$71,916
Median grant
1
States reached
$534k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY$260,240
SIEDA COMMUNITY ACTION$210,470
HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION$207,233
COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWA$148,763
IMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION$124,854
YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK INC$113,558
WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION$108,934
SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION$93,840
NORTH IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION$71,916
COMMUNITY ACTION OF SIOUXLAND$71,546
COMMUNITY ACTION OF EASTERN IOWA$70,281
NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK$61,610
MID IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC$58,690
NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION$42,877
OPERATION THRESHOLD$37,048
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MID SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $49k → 7%NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC: $118k → 9%WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $203k → 9%YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK INC: $114k → 9%NE IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $328k → 10%MID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $44k → 7%NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC: $83k → 9%WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $191k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $852k → 9%NE IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $202k → 10%MID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $36k → 7%NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC: $83k → 9%WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $109k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $266k → 9%NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $127k → 10%MID SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $36k → 7%NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC: $37k → 9%WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $95k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $264k → 9%NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $110k → 10%MID SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $24k → 7%NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC: $31k → 9%WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $70k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION: $207k → 9%NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $77k → 10%MID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $23k → 7%NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC: $30k → 9%WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $64k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $166k → 9%NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION: $43k → 10%MID SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $23k → 7%NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC: $21k → 9%WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $37k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $127k → 9%NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $41k → 10%MID SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $13k → 7%NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC: $13k → 9%WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $64k → 9%NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $17k → 10%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $52k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 17 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
2

Total granted

$17M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

94%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • IC
    IMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +13%
  • HA
    HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +72%
  • UD
    UPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • YP
    YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK
    one grant, 2025 · $114k · revenue 0%
  • NI
    NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2025 · $62k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
West Central Minnesota Communities Action Inc

Empowering people while providing services and resources that impact individuals and communities.

Community Improvement
2
Community Action for Improvement Inc

The mission of community action for improvement, inc. is to build sustainable communities with partners by providing services and resources utilizing the whole family approach with low-income households to help reduce the burdens of…

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3
Western Indiana Community Action Agency Inc

The organization's mission is to provide comprehensive services and support to improve living conditions and promote self-sufficiency to individuals and families in our community.

Human Services
4
Iowa Community Action Association

Educating, advocating for, and connecting community action agencies to amplify a unified voice in service of iowans facing economic hardship.

Human Services
5
Illinois Valley Economic Development Corporation

Illinois valley economic development corporation is organized as a charitable and educational organization that exists to serve the community, through programs to assist low-income, disabled, elderly, and individuals and families in need.…

Human Services
6
Northwest Community Action Inc

Our mission is to stimulate a focusing of all available resources upon the goal of enabling area low-income families and individuals of all ages to attain skills, knowledge, and motivations, and secure the opportunities needed for them to…

Human Services
7
Community Council of South Central Texas Inc

To be the service delivery agent to the poor. the agency will identify needs and prioritize them and promote, secure, and use all available resources to alleviate poverty. our intent is to enable low-income individuals and families to…

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8
Community Action of Northeast Indiana Inc

Community action of northeast indiana, inc. helps communities, families, and individuals remove the causes and conditions of poverty.the organization achieves their purpose through the: provision of a range of services and activities…

Community Improvement
9
Community Action of Southern Kentucky Inc

We team with Community partners to provide human services with dignity and respect, empowering people in Southern Kentucky to achieve stability and economic security.

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10
South Central Community Action Partnership Inc

To provide a wide range of services in an effort to help improve the quality of life for people with an economic disadvantage.

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11
Northeast Ne Community Action Partnershi Partnership

Assist in reducing poverty by creating opportunities which enhance the social and economic capacity of low-income & other eligible persons.

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12
Worcester Community Action Council Inc

The mission of the worcester community action council, inc. is helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Central Iowa Community Action Program; the most unlike its peers is Young Parents Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $3,597,455 · OtherIMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INCSOUTHERN IOWA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $969,192 · OtherSOUTHERN IOWA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONOPERATION THRESHOLD INC: $928,487 · OtherOPERATION THRESHOLD INCCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWA: $860,692 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWANorth Iowa Community Action Organization: $833,465 · OtherNorth Iowa Community Action OrganizationCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SIOUXLAND: $470,458 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SIOUXLAND+1 more: $99,327 · OtherMID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $2,498,331 · Community ImprovementMID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INCUPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC: $1,128,650 · Community ImprovementUPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INCCOMMUNITY ACTION OF EASTERN IOWA: $693,815 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ACTION OF EASTERN IOWASOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $485,643 · Community ImprovementSOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTI…MATURA ACTION CORPORATION: $262,512 · Community ImprovementHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $1,998,029 · Human ServicesHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION…NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $945,717 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTI…WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $778,739 · Human ServicesWEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTIONCOMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $415,784 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES INCMID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $248,071 · Human ServicesMID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC+1 more: $113,558 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $61,610 · Food & Nutrition
Other$7,759,076Community Improvement$5,068,951Human Services$4,499,898Food & Nutrition$61,610

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $3,597,455 over 8y, 16% of budgetMID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $2,498,331 over 8y, 10.0% of budgetHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $1,998,029 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetUPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC: $1,128,650 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetSOUTHERN IOWA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $969,192 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $945,717 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetOPERATION THRESHOLD INC: $928,487 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWA: $860,692 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetNorth Iowa Community Action Organization: $833,465 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetWEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $778,739 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF EASTERN IOWA: $693,815 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $485,643 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SIOUXLAND: $470,458 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $415,784 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetMATURA ACTION CORPORATION: $262,512 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetMID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC: $248,071 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG PARENTS NETWORK: $113,558 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $61,610 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds IMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds UPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN IOWA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION THRESHOLD INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWA ↗
  • Who funds North Iowa Community Action Organization ↗
  • Who funds WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF EASTERN IOWA ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SIOUXLAND ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MATURA ACTION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗

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.

Iowa Association of C…Delta Dental of Iowa …Community Fdn of Grea…National Philanthropi…Land O'Lakes Foundati…First Interstate Banc…Amazonsmile Foundation
Iowa Association of Community Action DirectorsIA32.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Iowa Community Action Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Iowa Community Action Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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