Iowa · Nonprofit
WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION
WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION (Iowa) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,028,753 to it, the largest being Promise Partners ($1,536,246). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What West Central Community Action does
Mission
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Head start / early head start - provides a comprehensive early childhood development program serving predominantly low-income children from birth to age five and their families.
$5,273,273 spentof which $50 as grants$5,273,273 earned by the program40% of program spendingLow-income home energy assistance program (liheap) - provides assistance to qualifying low-income households in paying their heating costs.
$2,399,103 spentof which $1,958,537 as grants$2,399,103 earned by the program18% of program spendingCacfp homes - promotes good nutrition, positive eating habits and attitudes for children in registered family and group day care homes by providing meal cost reimbursement following training, safety/sanitation inspections, nutritional consultation and menu reviews. Cacfp centers - provides breakfast, lunch and snack to meet head start and early head start children's nutritional needs.
$786,944 spentof which $680,450 as grants$786,944 earned by the program6% of program spendingVarious other programs including: csbg, weatherization, child care resource and referral, family development and self-sufficiency, early childhood iowa and various other small programs.
$4,822,602 spentof which $1,915,803 as grants$5,095,700 earned by the program36% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,281,922.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.1M to $6.4M (+25%).
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 97% · 2018 96% · 2019 95% · 2020 94% · 2021 92% · 2022 96% · 2023 95% · 2024 94% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION’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. 3 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
Wendy Mueller
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $761k → $152k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 68% · 2019 54% · 2020 49% · 2021 54% · 2022 64% · 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
38% of WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION is better cushioned than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$55.8M
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 WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION?
- WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION (Iowa) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,028,753 to it, the largest being Promise Partners ($1,536,246). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $4,028,753 in grants to WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION?
- Promise Partners is the largest funder on record, with $1,536,246 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION 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.
Play a game about who funds West Central Community Action →
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 14 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