Oregon · Nonprofit
UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK
UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK (Oregon) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,206,140 to it, the largest being ACCESS ($7,201,527). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $15M
What United Community Action Network does
Mission
Creating solutions to poverty. Improving lives in our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing & stabilization services: housing services - accounts for revenues and expenditures related to services that keep low-income households at-risk of losing their housing housed, and those who have lost housing rehoused. Those who are housed can receive rent assistance to help cover the cost of rent. Those without housing can receive move-in assistance to help move into housing. Program case managers work with clients to help them identify and work toward goals related to self-sufficiency. The program also offers additional resources to address barriers to housing, such as motel and hotel vouchers. Shelter services - accounts for revenues and expenditures to operating the gary leif navigation center, which provides a low-barrier shelter and wraparound case management services to help unhoused individuals become more self-sufficient and transition to permanent, stable housing. Veteran services - this program helps homeless veteran families obtain housing and other benefits and resources to help families remain housed. Participants also receive case management services. Money management - money management helps qualifying individuals with managing money and paying their bills…
$12,213,271 spentof which $7,088,123 as grants$1,219,411 earned by the program38% of program spendingChild services: douglas county head start and early head start - accounts for revenues and expenditures related to the federally and state funded head start program and early head start program and to an oregon pre-kindergarten program, preschool promise. The head start program also provides meals to children enrolled in the head start program through funding provided by the usda. The head start program provides early childhood education for low income and/or special needs children, between the ages of three to five, through classroom programs designed to prepare children for the public-school experience. The early head start program provides services for pregnant moms and children from birth to three years through a combination of home-based services and center-based services. Parent education and family involvement are promoted through parenting support groups, volunteering in the classroom, and assistance in program planning. Support services include offering developmental screenings, dental screenings and helping families to find places to obtain medical and dental services. Referrals to other service providers are also offered to families. Healthy families program - ucan…
$10,434,044 spentof which $298,580 as grants33% of program spendingUtility assistance: provides support to low-income individuals so that they can avoid having their energy and water turned off, and cover the costs of their bills. The program also provides education so that households learn how to use less energy while staying warm.
$3,368,150 spentof which $2,479,325 as grants10% of program spendingFood programsfood bank - accounts for revenues and expenditures related to the feeding umpqua food bank. Feeding umpqua is the regional food bank for douglas county and warehouses and provides food to a network of local food pantries and kitchens. Feeding umpqua collects and distributes donated and surplus food, including usda and oregon food bank commodities. Food is then distributed for redistribution to low-income individuals and families throughout douglas county. Feeding umpqua also operates its own mobile pantry providing emergency food in remote communities. Nutrition services - feeding umpqua also offers programs that support healthy eating. Food hero at the umpqua valley farmers' market offers children fun activities while they learn about nutrition, food and health. Feeding umpqua has also offered cooking matters, a program that helps families prepare healthy meals on a budget.
$3,483,037 spentof which $104,884 as grants$86,990 earned by the program11% of program spendingWeatherizationaccounts for revenues and expenditures related to providing low-income households home measures, retrofits, and upgrades designed to reduce home utility usage and costs. Some funds may also be used to address the health and safety needs of low-income households. Households also may receive education supporting reduced use of energy.property managementaccounts for revenues and expenditures for the purpose of providing low-income housing to individuals and families in need. Ucan operates approximately 91 units in 18 properties throughout douglas county. The housing consists of transitional housing and permanent housing. Transitional housing focuses on moving families to stabilization. Permanent housing allows individuals and families to stay for as long as they need, given certain income requirements, with the objective of helping them to become self-sufficient. All residents are charged a below market rental rate and some are required to participate in case management programming.volunteer servicesunited communities americorps - accounts for revenues and expenditures related toproviding americorps members to coos, curry, douglas, jackson and josephinecounties.…
$2,592,615 spent8% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,091,117.
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 $20M to $23M (+14%).
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 74% · 2018 77% · 2019 76% · 2020 82% · 2021 86% · 2022 5% · 2023 7% · 2024 83% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK’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. 6 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.
Board chair
Steven Loosley
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $700k → $1.4M.
8 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $37k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Oregon Head Start Association). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK’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
UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 35% · 2019 45% · 2020 55% · 2021 79% · 2022 70% · 2023 73% — 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
44% of UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
98% of UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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
UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK has grown faster 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 UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $172.8M on record — $31.8M federal, $141.0M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$27.7M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.1M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$1.0M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$101.6M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$27.7M
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$4.6M
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$2.3M
- OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS TO SUBRECIPIENTS$2.2M
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$917k
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 UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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 UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: 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 UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK?
- UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK (Oregon) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,206,140 to it, the largest being ACCESS ($7,201,527). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $11,206,140 in grants to UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK?
- ACCESS is the largest funder on record, with $7,201,527 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 27 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