Minnesota · Nonprofit
Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc
Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,632,737 to it, the largest being Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc ($5,177,811). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $9.8M
What Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc does
Mission
Working together to strengthen the quality of life in our communties.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Headstart - The mission of Headstart is "To foster strong healthy children and their families, and also to promote staff excellence through dynamic programming." The Program uses a holistic approach to meet the needs of the people involved. Services offered are: early childhood development, health and wellness, family well being, and family engagement. Head Start serves approximately 306 children.
$3,632,651 spentof which $297,134 as grants$26,020 earned by the program35% of program spendingTransportation - Prairie Five Rides is a public transportation system available to people of all ages and for all purposes such as medical and social outings, etc. We operate daily bus service from 7AM - 5PM in the cities of Appleton, Benson, Canby, Dawson, Granite Falls, Madison, Montevideo and Ortonville. We provide regional service to the five county service area, to destinations throughout the state of Minnesota using volunteer drivers with lift-equipped buses and vans. We also use our volunteer drivers to transport riders into the eastern parts of both North and South Dakota. From a MVDA grant, we were able to purchase a wheelchair accessible vehicle to provide free rides to veterans residing in one of the counties we serve.
$3,266,078 spentof which $202,960 as grants$632,199 earned by the program31% of program spendingNutrition/Aging Services - Promotes healthy and independent living through improved nutrition and reduction of social isolation. Congregate, home delivered, frozen and shelf stable meals are available. A person 60 or older, and their spouse (regardless of age) are eligible. Participants are encouraged to make a voluntary suggested donation toward the cost of each meal. A donation amount is suggested but participants may donate as much as they feel they can afford. The program has congregate, home delivered and frozen meal sites. A Hot/Cold Food Truck delivers meals to remote, isolated areas of the service area daily. Prepared meals are available requiring no suggested donation or fee. A person 18 to 60 years old and their dependents are eligible.
$2,043,140 spentof which $614,821 as grants$770,294 earned by the program20% of program spendingAdditional services provided - Promote housing stability, energy affordability, and self-sufficiency for low-income individuals and families. Through its weatherization and housing programs, Prairie Five improves the safety, energy efficiency, and overall condition of homes by delivering services such as insulation, heating system repair or replacement, and other energy-saving upgrades. These efforts reduce utility costs while ensuring safe and stable living environments.In addition, Prairie Five administers energy and emergency assistance programs that help eligible households meet immediate and ongoing basic needs. Energy assistance provides financial support for utility costs, crisis intervention, and education to prevent service disruptions. Emergency assistance offers short-term support for rent, utilities, and other essential expenses to stabilize households and prevent homelessness, while connecting individuals and families to longer-term community resources.
$1,509,704 spentof which $971,585 as grants$472,775 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,451,573.
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 2023 to 2024, from $8.5M to $10M (+19%).
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 79% · 2018 81% · 2019 83% · 2020 81% · 2021 76% · 2022 77% · 2023 72% · 2024 80% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Debra Larson
Executive Director
Board chair
DeRon Brehmer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $420k → $1.5M.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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
Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
100% 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 Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 88% · 2019 68% · 2020 64% · 2021 57% · 2022 62% · 2023 58% — 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
45% of Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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 Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $649k 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 Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$17.9M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$530k
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 Prairie Five Community Action Council 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Prairie Five Community Action Council 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 Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc?
- Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,632,737 to it, the largest being Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc ($5,177,811). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $8,632,737 in grants to Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc?
- Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,177,811 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Prairie Five Community Action Council 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing