Community Partners

Community Partners, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization with tax-exempt status, operates as a federal grant recipient focused on community development, food systems, workforce training, and civic engagement programs across 22 distinct federal agencies. The organization holds 46 total federal awards (72% as prime recipient, 28% as sub-recipient) with a combined obligated value of $31.6 million, though recent annual award volume has declined from six awards per year in 2022–2024 to two in 2025 and one in 2026.

Community Partners' capability portfolio centers on regional food system transformation, senior volunteer engagement, workforce development for underserved populations, and historical preservation and education. Representative prime grant work includes a $102,711 award from the Corporation for National and Community Service (June 2026) to operate the AmeriCorps Seniors Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) in California through March 2029, engaging volunteers ages 55 and older in tutoring, tax preparation, disaster relief, and food security work; a $750,000 three-year project grant from USDA's Office of Advocacy and Outreach under the Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers program (CFDA 10.443, awarded September 2023) to provide technical assistance and outreach to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color farmers and ranchers on land tenure, language access, and USDA program awareness; and a $1,066,300 award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (awarded September 2022, completed August 2025) supporting the PROJECT SOAR initiative to provide college and career support services to residents in Los Angeles public housing.

The organization also received funding under USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service for the Good Food Purchasing California initiative, a regional collaborative to increase institutional food purchasing from local producers and strengthen farm-to-institution linkages across Los Angeles and the Bay Area (awarded September 2023, completion September 2026). Additional work includes occupational safety and health training grant delivery from OSHA's Susan Harwood Training Grant Program and Japanese American Confinement Sites preservation and youth fellowship programming through the National Park Service Intermountain Region (2022–2025).

Customer concentration splits between agriculture-focused agencies and social service funders. The top five customer agencies account for 41% of awards by count, led by the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service (7 awards) and Forest Service (6 awards across regional and national offices), alongside the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime (3 awards). By potential value, USDA's Farm Service Agency Washington Office dominates at $40 thousand combined potential value, though the obligated-dollar magnitude ($31.6 million) substantially exceeds the potential-value total ($81 thousand), indicating that source data captures only a snapshot of Community Partners' full federal grant footprint. As a prime recipient, Community Partners serves as fiscal sponsor and program operator; as a sub-recipient, it delivers technical assistance on food business development and farm-to-institution supplier connections under University of California Office of the President (four sub-awards, 2024–2025) and participates in the California Elder Justice Coalition initiative under a sub-award from Lifespan of Greater Rochester (November 2023).

Community Partners maintains a subsidiary, International Community Foundation, also a nonprofit organization and foundation entity.