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PRAIRIE FIVE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC

EIN 41-0904802 MONTEVIDEO, MN

Revenue 2025
$13,121,286
Expenses 2025
$11,796,125

Program services were 88.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
Street
719 N 7TH ST STE 302

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Working together to strengthen the quality of life in our communties.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Council serves the unmet needs of the low-income, handicapped and elderly population in the counties of Big Stone, Swift, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, and Yellow Medicine.

  • Headstart - The mission of Headstart is "To foster strong healthy children and their families, and also to promote staff excellence through dynamic programming." The Program uses a holistic approach to meet the needs of the people involved. Services offered are: early childhood development, health and wellness, family well being, and family engagement. Head Start serves approximately 306 children.

    Expenses $3,632,651 · Grants $297,134 · Revenue $26,020

  • Transportation - Prairie Five Rides is a public transportation system available to people of all ages and for all purposes such as medical and social outings, etc. We operate daily bus service from 7AM - 5PM in the cities of Appleton, Benson, Canby, Dawson, Granite Falls, Madison, Montevideo and Ortonville. We provide regional service to the five county service area, to destinations throughout the state of Minnesota using volunteer drivers with lift-equipped buses and vans. We also use our volunteer drivers to transport riders into the eastern parts of both North and South Dakota. From a MVDA grant, we were able to purchase a wheelchair accessible vehicle to provide free rides to veterans residing in one of the counties we serve.

    Expenses $3,266,078 · Grants $202,960 · Revenue $632,199

  • Nutrition/Aging Services - Promotes healthy and independent living through improved nutrition and reduction of social isolation. Congregate, home delivered, frozen and shelf stable meals are available. A person 60 or older, and their spouse (regardless of age) are eligible. Participants are encouraged to make a voluntary suggested donation toward the cost of each meal. A donation amount is suggested but participants may donate as much as they feel they can afford. The program has congregate, home delivered and frozen meal sites. A Hot/Cold Food Truck delivers meals to remote, isolated areas of the service area daily. Prepared meals are available requiring no suggested donation or fee. A person 18 to 60 years old and their dependents are eligible.

    Expenses $2,043,140 · Grants $614,821 · Revenue $770,294

  • Additional services provided - Promote housing stability, energy affordability, and self-sufficiency for low-income individuals and families. Through its weatherization and housing programs, Prairie Five improves the safety, energy efficiency, and overall condition of homes by delivering services such as insulation, heating system repair or replacement, and other energy-saving upgrades. These efforts reduce utility costs while ensuring safe and stable living environments.In addition, Prairie Five administers energy and emergency assistance programs that help eligible households meet immediate and ongoing basic needs. Energy assistance provides financial support for utility costs, crisis intervention, and education to prevent service disruptions. Emergency assistance offers short-term support for rent, utilities, and other essential expenses to stabilize households and prevent homelessness, while connecting individuals and families to longer-term community resources.

    Expenses $1,509,704 · Grants $971,585 · Revenue $472,775

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • DeRon Brehmer

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Peter Peterson

    Vice Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Juanita Lauritsen

    Co-Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Thomas Kramer

    Co-Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Diane Kepner

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Wade Athey

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Steve Strei

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Diane McKee

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dave Nordaune

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Murlaine Rieger

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Lee Ulstad

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Becky Schellberg

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mark Frank

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Glen Kack

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Peggy Kvam

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Debra Larson

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $155,529
    From this org
    $133,675
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,854
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $133,675
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,354
    Filer's total
    $155,529

  • Kami Nesvold

    Associate Director

    Total calculated
    $113,515
    From this org
    $104,704
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,811
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $13,121,286
    Expenses
    $11,796,125
    Contributions
    $11,157,590
    Grants paid
    $2,086,500
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $13,310,278
    Expenses
    $11,777,477
    Contributions
    $11,276,628
    Grants paid
    $2,751,277
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $12,810,902
    Expenses
    $11,879,466
    Contributions
    $10,081,501
    Grants paid
    $2,581,907
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $11,150,503
    Expenses
    $10,506,552
    Contributions
    $9,024,445
    Grants paid
    $2,129,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,207,153
    Expenses
    $11,245,582
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,348,817

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,149,074
    Expenses
    $12,423,038
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,280,605

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,759,268
    Expenses
    $10,056,102
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,773,689

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,897,254
    Expenses
    $9,567,743
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,670,999

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,707,278
    Expenses
    $8,577,102
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,204,652

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,119,765
    Expenses
    $8,665,727
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,087,861

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,156,355
    Expenses
    $7,595,950
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,816,041

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,848,763
    Expenses
    $7,454,033
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,022,271

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,652,838
    Expenses
    $7,228,935
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,613,248

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $6,864,783
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,103,869

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.