Minnesota · Nonprofit
WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC
WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $995,057 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($250,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $995k
- Net assets
- $617k
What Western Communities Action Network Inc does
Mission
Western communities action network provides human serivce needs to individuals and families in the greenfield, independence, loretto, maple plain, minnetonka beach, minnetrista, mound, rockford, spring park, st. Bonifacius, tonka bay, and the western orono communities. The emergancy assistance program, meals on wheels, and health services programs provide assistance to low income individuals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Wecan is a community nonprofit that provides services to empower and equip individuals and families to reach stability and self-sufficiency. Our service offerings provide clients a holistic approach to address the many layers associated with poverty and homelessness. The 4 core services that we offer include: emergency assistance to keep families and individuals in their homes with a one-time payment for rent, mortgage or utilities. We distributed emergency payments to stabilize about 150 households. Food support programs to nourish clients with healthy foods through meals on wheels and a mobile market food shelf. Last year, we served about 8,500 hot meals through meals on wheels and delivered about 500 food bags to children in need while on break from school. Employment & budget programs to equip and educate clients to be self- sufficient. We provide job counselors to assist in resume writing, job searches and interview skills. Budget classes enhance financial literacy and planning for our clients. Family support programs to help families stretch their budgets. Through community in-kind donations, we distribute school supplies, holiday and birthday gifts, winter gear, personal…
$1,020,281 spentof which $85,730 as grants$63,686 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,020,281.
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 2022 to 2023, from $423k to $635k (+50%).
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: 2020 32% · 2021 29% · 2022 19% · 2023 13% · 2024 11% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $12k → $161k.
11 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
47% 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 WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 63% · 2019 17% · 2020 34% · 2021 47% · 2022 43% · 2023 13% — 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
33% of WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
95% of WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK 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. $195k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC is better cushioned than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC?
- WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $995,057 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($250,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $995,057 in grants to WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK 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 42 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