Nebraska · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES (Nebraska) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,673,186 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($2,409,449). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $9.3M
What Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders Counties does
Mission
We partner with our community in fearless pursuit of anti-poverty solutions so we all have the opportunity to live well.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child and family development:community action provides high-quality early childhood education services to our community's most vulnerable children (ages birth to five) and their families through early head start and head start programs. Programs focus on readiness - children ready for school, families ready to support their children's development, and schools ready to prepare the children who walk through their doors to graduate from high school. Programs ensure that our community's most vulnerable children receive the cognitive, social-emotional, physical, and linguistic interventions they need to be ready for kindergarten and extend beyond the child to serve the whole family. Our educators and family engagement staff provide ongoing support to parents and caregivers to empower them to set goals, move toward greater economic stability, and prepare them to be their child's first and most important teacher. Additionally, our foster grandparent program works alongside our early head start and head start programs to ensure children receive the social-emotional supports necessary to develop to their fullest potential. In fiscal year 2025, 638 children were served through early head…
$9,937,114 spentof which $11,831 as grants$279,223 earned by the program66% of program spendingCommunity services:community action's vision for a healthy, vibrant, and inclusive community motivates us to offer numerous vital services to the community at large. Among these services is languagelinc, a professional interpretation and translation service and our gathering place soup kitchen, which provides nutritious evening meals 7 nights per week. In fiscal year 2025, the gathering place served 55,330 meals with 99% of those meals containing fresh content.
$1,988,404 spentof which $156,191 as grants$606,282 earned by the program13% of program spendingFinancial and family well-being:community action's financial and family well-being programs are geared toward increasing financial stability of low- to moderate-income individuals and families. Our free to save program provides financial education paired with 4:1 matched savings for the purchase of a home, postsecondary education, vehicle, or small business start-up/expansion. Our lincoln community response program supports and links families to resources to prevent entry into the child welfare system. The weatherization program identifies areas of energy inefficiency in low- to moderate-income homes and provides services (which may include furnace tune-ups, window/door caulking, and insulation) to remediate. Services provided result in decreased utility burdens and improved housing stock. Just to name a few outcomes achieved in fiscal year 2025, 182 individuals participated in programming to improve financial knowledge and 31 purchased an asset to improve long-term financial well-being.
$1,590,268 spentof which $240,965 as grants11% of program spendingHomelessness prevention:community action's homelessness prevention programs ensure housing stability and prevent homelessness through the provision of emergency services, supportive housing, and tenant support services programs. Our emergency services program provides emergency financial assistance with rent for those with an eviction notice, utilities for those who have received a disconnect notice, and deposits for those transitioning out of homelessness. Our supportive housing program transitions families experiencing homelessness into permanent housing and provides case management for up to two years to support movement toward self-sufficiency. Our tenant support services program provides tenant/landlord education and mediation with a goal of eviction prevention. In fiscal year 2025, 4,820 individuals were supported in avoiding homelessness through the receipt of financial assistance with rent and utilities.
$1,502,505 spentof which $618,370 as grants10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,018,291.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $6.4M to $12M (+92%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 80% · 2018 79% · 2019 71% · 2020 78% · 2021 78% · 2022 77% · 2023 76% · 2024 77% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (26% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Heather Loughman
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $274k → $619k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 17 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 67% · 2019 68% · 2020 40% · 2021 33% · 2022 42% · 2023 47% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 95 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $95.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$89.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$5.8M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$704k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Languagelinc LLC · disregarded
- Community Action Housing Development Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES?
- COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES (Nebraska) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,673,186 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($2,409,449). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $7,673,186 in grants to COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,409,449 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing