Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION
IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,499,353 to it, the largest being KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC ($958,644). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $297k
What Iowa Community Action Association does
Mission
Educating, advocating for, and connecting community action agencies to amplify a unified voice in service of iowans facing economic hardship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The disaster program ended as of 9/30/2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Iowa individual assistance grant program (iiagp) and iowa disaster case advocacy - effective july 1, 2023, the funding and oversight of this program moved from iowa department of human services to the iowa department of homeland security and emergency management. The program assisted families whose incomes were at or below twice the federal poverty guidelines who were affected by severe weather under the governor's disaster declaration. Families applied for the iiagp program for a maximum of $7,000 assistance at the area community action agencies throughout the state of iowa. Idca was used to assist community action staff that were helping iowans - this funding is available to any iowan affected by a disasater in a governor declared county.
$1,504,116 spentof which $1,294,857 as grants$159,062 earned by the program74% of program spending3drp - this program is a pilot program funded by the administration of children and families. The program provides funds to assist families with diapering and diapering supplies and home visitation services. Participating agencies only enroll families who are participating in home visitation programs who have diaper aged children.
$520,190 spentof which $485,151 as grants26% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,024,306.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.2M to $534k (−56%).
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 59% · 2019 87% · 2020 53% · 2021 84% · 2022 43% · 2023 66% · 2024 68% · 2025 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Katherine Riley Harrington
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $143k → $216k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $100k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Iowa Association of Community Action Directors). These are real filings, and they are not money IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 78% · 2019 51% · 2020 77% · 2021 63% · 2022 68% · 2023 68% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.3M
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 IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION?
- IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,499,353 to it, the largest being KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC ($958,644). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,499,353 in grants to IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION?
- KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC is the largest funder on record, with $958,644 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 14 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