Iowa · Nonprofit
MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC
MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC (Iowa) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,549,588 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC ($373,831). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc does
Mission
Mica implemented the home arp (american rescue plan) program to provide assistance to individuals experiencing homelessness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Mica discontinued the innsgp iowa nutrition network school grant / pick a better snack program effective september 30, 2025. Additionally, following the conclusion of wrap around funding on june 30, 2025, mica reduced early head start and head start classroom hours, closed one half-day head start classroom, decreased classroom-based enrollment slots, and increased home-based service capacity.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Mica no longer operated the innsgp iowa nutrition network school grant program/pick a better snack (ended 9/30/2025), the wrap around grant (ended 6/30/2025). Due to the loss of the wrap around grant, mica reduced early head start and head start classroom hours, including closing one 1/2-day head start classroom. In addition, classroom slots were reduced, and home-based services slots were increased.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc. (mica) was funded to serve 173 preschool head start & 76 early head start children and families. Preschool head start served a total of 202 preschool children and early head start served a total of 107 infants and toddlers and 8 pregnant women during the 2024-2025 school year. Preschoolers enrolled in the mica early head start (ehs) program received child development services through center based programming or homebased programming. Preschoolers enrolled in the mica preschool head start (hs) program received child development services through center based programming or homebased programming. Children receiving services in center-based programming were provided nutritious food that met usda child and adult care food program requirements. Enrolled children received screenings, including developmental, social emotional, hearing, vision, communication skills, nutrition and blood lead level screenings. Of the head start children served, 29% had a diagnosed disability and 16% of the early head start children served had a diagnosed disability. All ehs and hs children diagnosed with a disability received intervention services. Families of enrolled children…
$5,606,566 spentof which $988,910 as grants$23,418 earned by the program45% of program spendingThe weatherization program provides assistance to low-income households in weatherizing their homes. During this fiscal year, mica completed the weatherization of 53 homes at an average cost of $18,792 each. Another 49 homes were surveyed and not found suitable for weatherization during this time. This made for a total of 102 homes for the fiscal year. The low-income home energy assistance program provides assistance to low-income households in paying their heat bills. During the fiscal year ending september 30, 2025, mid iowa community action, inc. (mica) provided assistance to 3,228 families. With the crisis assistance programs: 553 families with ecip, 276 families with project utilities, and 45 families with the embrace programs.
$3,765,268 spentof which $2,416,206 as grants$115,934 earned by the program30% of program spendingPrograms focus on referral services, connecting people with health care, dental care, and mental health care providers in their area. Programs also provide early and periodic screenings and referrals for children, so parents can make informed decisions about their children's health. Programs include women, infants & children (wic) which provides nutritional assistance and education to eligible low-income women who are pregnant, are breastfeeding mothers, or who have an infant child under the age of five years. 3,998 individuals participated in wic during the fiscal year. Dental the ismile program for children's dental care, and sealants applied in local school districts to 3rd and 7th graders. Mica's sealant program provided assistance to 932 children during the fiscal year. Child and maternal health assesses children's health and development and recommends local resources, provides resources to help with access to health and dental insurance, and includes epsdt and hawki programs. Mica provided these services to 4,198 child health participants and 101 maternal health participants during the fiscal year.
$1,956,956 spent$226,975 earned by the program16% of program spendingFamily development programs designed to improve economic mobility for low-income families. This work requires a multifaceted approach that combines immediate financial relief with the organization's family development model. Mica maintains five family services centers that serve as a base of operations for these services in hardin, marshall, tama, story and poweshiek counties.
$1,037,738 spentof which $75,506 as grants$33 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,366,528.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $3.5M to $3.8M (+10%).
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: 2018 85% · 2019 86% · 2020 89% · 2021 94% · 2022 95% · 2023 93% · 2024 92% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Clarissa Thompson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $92k → $55k.
9 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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: $2.6M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Iowa Community Action Association). These are real filings, and they are not money MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 29 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
MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
80% 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 MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 33% · 2019 37% · 2020 28% · 2021 29% · 2022 44% · 2023 43% — 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
38% of MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
66% of MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $609k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $39.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$36.8M
- Department of Education$2.5M
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 MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION 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 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 MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC (Iowa) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,549,588 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC ($373,831). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,549,588 in grants to MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $373,831 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 29 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