Iowa · Nonprofit
SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM
SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $694,930 to it, the largest being IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION ($485,643). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $695k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What South Central Iowa Community Action Program does
Mission
To address the causes and conditions of poverty through community engagement, economic support, education and cognitive development, family support, health and welfare, housing stabilization, any other activities which secure opportunities for and benefit people with low-income and insufficient resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Head start and early head start - provides a comprehensive developmental program for preschool children, primarily all of whom come from low income families. Enrolled children received screenings including developmental, social-emotional status, hearing, vision, communication skills, nutritional status and blood lead level screenings. Ehs serves pre-natal women and children birth to up to 3 years of age.empowerment (eci) area programs - programs include the parents as teachers program which is a parent education and support program offered to families with children ages birth to kindergarten entry. The program offers 4 main components to its participants: home visits, developmental screenings, group meetings, and a resource network.child development programs - provide child development services for three to four year old children who are determined to be at risk.child and adult care food program - provides assistance for food and nutritional needs of low income families' childrenenrolled in head start centers and family day care homes.
$3,060,303 spentof which $61,963 as grants62% of program spendingLow income home energy assistance program (liheap) - program aids low-income families and individuals in paying their household heating costs and providing new furnaces and air conditioners. During the fiscal year, 1405 households/2932 individuals were provided with assistance.weatherization assistance programs - program for low-income households to help weatherize their homes with suchthings as insulation, windows, doors and furnaces. During the fiscal year, 1405 households eligible for assistance and 7homes weatherized.
$1,224,064 spentof which $901,254 as grants25% of program spendingFadss is a voluntary home visitation program for low-income families. Family development specialists work with the whole family to address their basic needs, improve child well-being, and develop career opportunities that, in turn, improve lives, families, and communities.local and other programs - provide housing assistance, embrace iowa, emergency assistance,food pantry assistance, household and personal care pantry assistancecommunity service block grants (csbg) - provides funding for the administration of human service programs or provides direct support to the individual programs which require co-funding to complete their activities.
$654,063 spentof which $214,626 as grants13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,938,430.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.8M to $2.1M (+16%).
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 97% · 2019 97% · 2020 96% · 2021 95% · 2022 96% · 2023 95% · 2024 96% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM’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. 1 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
Brenda Fry
Executive director
Board chair
Cathy Reece
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $89k → $23k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 85% · 2020 36% · 2021 47% · 2022 78% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM's revenue grew 24% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$21.8M
- Department of Agriculture$91k
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 SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM
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
92% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: 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 SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM?
- SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $694,930 to it, the largest being IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION ($485,643). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $694,930 in grants to SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM?
- IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $485,643 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM 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 8 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