Minnesota · Nonprofit
LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC
LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,122,173 to it, the largest being United Way of Cass-Clay ($1,782,294). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Lakes and Prairies Community Action Partnership Inc does
Mission
Lakes & prairies community action partnership (caplp) is celebrating 60 years of providing services and working to achieve our mission to eliminate poverty by empowering families and engaging communities. Our services are designed to address the unique needs in our community including high quality, affordable child care; housing; living wage employment and transportation. Our team works together to achieve our strategic plan goals, and our work is guided by our core values.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, caplp provided services to 5,515 unduplicated individuals across our service area, which reflects an almost 20% increase in the number of clients served the prior year. Out of the over 5,000 clients served were 1,039 children, 810 senior citizens and over 2,000 child care providers. Programs and services are provided through one of our four main divisions - child care connections, economic empowerment, head start and housing.the housing division helps individuals experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless to secure safe, affordable housing through an array of housing programs. In 2025, caplp assisted 533 people in securing or maintaining safe, affordable housing through our housing programs, including preventing 245 people from falling into homelessness. We also provided street outreach within our community to people experiencing homelessness reaching an average of 46 people experiencing unsheltered homelessness each month and provided supportive housing services to an average of 140 household each month. Our team works closely with those individuals with lived experience in developing and improving services through our consumer advisory board and most…
$3,847,305 spentof which $1,067,027 as grants$278,683 earned by the program30% of program spendingThe child care connections division is dedicated to supporting and advocating for all aspects of high-quality early childhood education to improve opportunities and outcomes for children, families, educators and our communities. We work with all parts of the child care delivery system cross northwest minnesota and the state of north dakota. We assist families in accessing quality child care through online search tools and financial assistance; we support educators to improve quality of care through training, grants and coaching; and we build connections with community partners to generate understanding and activism for the child care system. In 2025, child care connections assisted 457 children in receiving child care subsidies, supported 296 child care programs in achieving their quality rating goals, provided grants to 142 child care providers to start or improve the quality of their care, provided 154 trainings for child care providers, and provided over 2,000 hours of substitute support for providers.
$3,891,555 spentof which $928,502 as grants$49,799 earned by the program30% of program spendingThe head start division offers comprehensive early childhood services to children ages birth-5 and families with limited income and for children with special needs that reside within clay and wilkin counties. In the 2024-2025 school year, caplp provided services to 233 children with 136 children through the head start program (3-5 years old) and 97 children through the early head start program (birth-3 years old). These children received high-quality early childhood education experiences at no cost including family support, health and nutrition support incorporated into the program. Through these services 47 children received educational support through an iep or ifsp, 13 children gained access to mental health services and families received over 300 referrals for services to stabilize and support their family.
$3,420,903 spent27% of program spendingThe economic empowerment division supports individuals and families in their goals of achieving financial stability and independence for families, individuals and seniors across our community. Our services include assistance with employment, nutritional, medical and economic security. All programs work together to provide holistic support to families. In 2025 the economic empowerment division provided free tax assistance to 1,281 individuals, assisted 234 people in obtaining health insurance coverage, provided homeownership services to 49 households, provided transportation to 270 people, assisted over 250 seniors to access healthy nutritious food, and helped 26 people secure employment in a career that provides a living-wage.
$1,670,975 spentof which $167,926 as grants$8,689 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,830,738.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.5M to $5.4M (+55%).
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 86% · 2018 86% · 2019 86% · 2020 86% · 2021 90% · 2022 87% · 2023 94% · 2024 94% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Lori Schwartz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $339k → $539k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $410k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest BCBSM Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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
LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 39% · 2019 28% · 2020 41% · 2021 54% · 2022 47% · 2023 57% — 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
60% of LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% 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
LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $500k 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
LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $31.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$28.3M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.0M
- Department of the Treasury$165k
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 LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: 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 LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC?
- LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,122,173 to it, the largest being United Way of Cass-Clay ($1,782,294). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $4,122,173 in grants to LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC?
- United Way of Cass-Clay is the largest funder on record, with $1,782,294 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC 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 13 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