Minnesota · Nonprofit
Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties
Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,750,126 to it, the largest being Think Small ($4,129,148). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $39M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties does
Mission
Invest in people experiencing poverty to build generational prosperity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Head Start:Federal Head Start grants are the largest source of funding for the Organization, comprising approximately 43% of total revenue for the year ended September 30, 2025. Head Start and Early Head Start services provide comprehensive early childhood education and family services to families with children birth through five years. The program promotes school readiness through educational, health, nutritional, social and parent services to children birth through five of their families. During the calendar year, approximately 1,478 families were served.
$22,964,962 spentof which $1,184,593 as grants$4,317,808 earned by the program65% of program spendingEnergy Assistance:Energy Assistance is a health and safety program funded by the federal government's Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) grant contract which helps with utility bill payments, crisis intervention when utility service shut off is imminent, advocacy for utility consumer rights, and referrals to other support programs. Approximately 20,050 households were served during the program year through heat and crisis assistance.
$1,762,515 spent5% of program spendingEnergy Conservation:Energy Conservation and Weatherization program activities are supported by funding from the U.S. Departments of Energy and Health and Human Services, plus utility conservation improvement program funds. The program performs energy audits on single and multifamily dwellings for low-income owners and renters, utilizing specialized staff which uses the latest energy conservation tools and techniques to perform the work. Work includes performing energy audits; repairing and replacing mechanical systems; and insulating and air sealing homes. 248 homes received either standalone or full audit services by the CAPRW Weatherization team in 2025.
$4,593,787 spentof which $120,053 as grants$377,731 earned by the program13% of program spendingCommunity Engagement is funded through the federal Community Services Block Grant and the Minnesota Community Action Grant. The program helps low-income individuals achieve economic stability by increasing income, building assets, and promoting civic engagement that drives systemic change.Additional organizational activities include Community Housing, Property Management, and Neighborhood Investments. Community Housing provides affordable housing across Ramsey and Washington counties. Property Management leases a portion of the organization's headquarters to mission-aligned organizations to offset occupancy costs. Neighborhood Investments leads communications, impact measurement, strategic planning, and community assessment efforts to enhance public awareness and organizational effectiveness.
$6,093,939 spentof which $655,661 as grants$911,447 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $35,415,203.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $7.7M to $9.8M (+26%).
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 95% · 2018 95% · 2019 94% · 2020 91% · 2021 95% · 2022 97% · 2023 95% · 2024 90% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Sonia Gass
Executive Director
Board chair
George Stone
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $389k → $836k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $20k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Twin Cities United Way). These are real filings, and they are not money Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties raised.
From the IRS filings of Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 15 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 Ramsey and Washington Counties leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 Ramsey and Washington Counties.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 77% · 2020 90% · 2021 65% · 2022 88% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
33% of Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
99% of Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $160.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$160.6M
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 Ramsey and Washington 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties?
- Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,750,126 to it, the largest being Think Small ($4,129,148). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $4,750,126 in grants to Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties?
- Think Small is the largest funder on record, with $4,129,148 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 15 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