Minnesota · Nonprofit
UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC
UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,400,632 to it, the largest being EVERY ORG ($740,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $40M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $20M
What United Community Action Partnership Inc does
Mission
The mission of united community action partnership, inc. (ucap) is building stronger communities by providing opportunities that empower people in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community and family services department: in fy2025, ucap assisted individuals and families in crisis with emergency food services at our marshall, tracy, westbrook. Worthington and heron lake food shelves. 7,249 unique visits occurred, and 498,044 pounds of food were distributed. Food shelves are open each week, and services are available other times by appointment. Food shelves are open to the public for in-person client choice shopping, curbside, phone orders, and by appointment. Usage is up 59% at all food shelf locations in 2025. We also help people meet their nutrition needs by providing application assistance through the supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap). 2,977 households received new benefits, and 12,1265 households received help with getting recertified. Our emergency housing programs assisted households with homeless prevention and other services that include emergency shelter, first month's rent or deposit, utility deposit, and transportation assistance. Households also received support services from trained case managers in developing goals toward self-sufficiency. In fy2025, 279 households were served with emergency shelter, 32 households were served by…
$9,434,831 spentof which $3,436,476 as grants$191,685 earned by the program30% of program spendingHead start department: head start helps young children from low-income families prepare to succeed in school through early learning services and active engagement with parents, recognizing health and family participation as key components to successful child outcomes. During the 2024-2025 school year, a cumulative of 578 children and pregnant women received services through the federally funded head start program.
$9,189,888 spentof which $321,305 as grants29% of program spendingTransportation program:transportation is a united community action partnership program that provides transportation resources throughout the southwest region of minnesota. Community transit (public transit) and community connection (senior transportation and medical transportation) are services within the transportation program. Community transit is for residents of lincoln, lyon, redwood, murray, cottonwood, jackson, pipestone, and rock counties. For 2026, a mndot grant under section 5311 is awarded to cover 90% of the cost for this program; the other 10% will come from farebox revenues. From october of 2024 through september of 2025, approximately 180,000 rides were provided, covering over 818,000 miles. Rides were provided with hired drivers in lift accessible buses and volunteer drivers. Three dispatch centers accept and schedule approximately 750 ride requests daily using automated scheduling software. In the same timeframe, just over 11,000 rides were provided under community connection. These rides were provided using lift accessible buses funded under mndot's 5310 elderly and people with disabilities program, volunteer drivers who drive their own vehicle, and accessible…
$5,589,057 spentof which $164,757 as grants$1,381,193 earned by the program18% of program spendingThe weatherization program is a grant program that provides services to assist income-eligible households with energy repairs to make them more efficient. Services include diagnostic testing, furnace repair and replacement, water heater repairs, and insulation. In 2025, we were able to serve 162 household units with weatherization and 61 households with standalone repairs. The energy assistance program provides home heating assistance, emergency assistance, and repair of old and unsafe heating systems to qualifying households. In 2025, we provided energy grants to 4723 households. Ucap also provided 189 households with the energy and emergency repair program and assisted 1176 households with the crisis program. We also completed 57 in-home outreach projects. The small cities development program provides financial assistance for low to moderate-income individuals who are residing in substandard housing. This program encourages the improvement of the general appearance and value of the housing stock while making a visible and substantial improvement in the quality of life and appearance of the community. This program offers grant funds for owner-occupied, commercial, and rental…
$7,234,277 spentof which $4,239,244 as grants$-719,823 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $31,448,053.
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 2019 to 2020, from $12M to $16M (+34%).
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 87% · 2019 87% · 2020 92% · 2021 93% · 2022 88% · 2023 91% · 2024 92% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP 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. 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
Debra Brandt
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $109k → $365k.
4 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP 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
UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
56% 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 PARTNERSHIP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 81% · 2019 56% · 2020 27% · 2021 36% · 2022 75% · 2023 32% — 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
53% of UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP 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
73% of UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP 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. $453k 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
UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $78.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$68.3M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$9.7M
- Department of the Treasury$391k
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 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
93% 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 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 UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC?
- UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,400,632 to it, the largest being EVERY ORG ($740,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $3,400,632 in grants to UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC?
- EVERY ORG is the largest funder on record, with $740,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED 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 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