Mid-Sioux Opportunity, Inc.

Mid-Sioux Opportunity, Inc., a tax-exempt non-profit community action agency headquartered in Remsen, Iowa, receives federal grants as a recipient and sub-recipient to deliver early childhood education, family support services, energy assistance, and nutrition programs to low-income families and individuals in Iowa. The organization operates predominantly as a sub-recipient (86% of recent awards) on state and federal grant programs, with a single large prime Head Start award and substantial pass-through funding from state agencies.

Mid-Sioux's primary capability footprint centers on comprehensive early childhood and family services. As a prime grant recipient, the organization holds a $7.07 million Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families under the Head Start program (CFDA 93.600), effective March 1, 2026, through February 28, 2031. This award funds Head Start and Early Head Start services, including educational instruction, health and nutritional support, social-emotional development programming, and family engagement initiatives for three- and four-year-old children, infants, toddlers, and pregnant women. The award requires a 20 percent non-federal match and builds on the organization's history of over $22 million in prior Head Start federal funding.

As a sub-recipient, Mid-Sioux passes through federal block grant and energy assistance funds via the Iowa Department of Human Rights and the Iowa Department of Public Health. Recent sub-awards support the Low Income Energy Assistance Program (crisis intervention and client services), the Weatherization Assistance Program (energy efficiency and health-safety improvements for low-income households, including Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding), the Community Services Block Grant (basic energy, food, shelter assistance and self-sufficiency support), and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) — including breastfeeding peer counseling, nutrition services administration, and breast pump rental and equipment. The organization also participates in the Iowa Family Development and Self-Sufficiency (FaDSS) Program.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to HHS Administration for Children and Families programs (30 awards total across prime and sub work, covering 68% of awards in the source window) and the Department of Energy Weatherization and Community Services Block Grant funding flowing through Iowa state agencies (8 awards). The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, the Iowa Department of Public Health, and the Iowa Department of Human Services round out the active agency set. Combined dollars obligated across 44 total awards reaches $106.7 million. Activity has remained stable at four to eleven awards annually over the past five years, with the most recent sub-awards arriving in May 2026. Mid-Sioux operates as an established community action agency with demonstrated federal compliance and financial management capacity across multiple low-income service programs.