United Community Action Network

United Community Action Network, doing business as Umpqua Community Action Network, is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Roseburg, Oregon that serves as a federal grant recipient focused on homelessness services, early childhood education, and community action programming. The organization operates primarily as a direct recipient of federal grants (63% of recent awards) with material sub-recipient activity (37%) flowing through state administering agencies and regional education coordinating bodies.

The vendor's capability footprint centers on three program areas. The dominant work stream is homelessness intervention and housing provision under the HUD Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267), which accounts for the plurality of its federal relationships. Representative CoC awards include a $219,226 project grant (performance period July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025) and a $153,133 project grant in the same performance window, both supporting permanent housing, transitional housing, rapid rehousing, supportive services, and homeless management information system operations across Douglas and Josephine counties. The organization also holds a Head Start and Early Head Start project grant from the Administration for Children and Families (performance period January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2028) delivering early childhood education and family support services. A third revenue stream flows through AmeriCorps and Senior Medicare Patrol sub-awards from the Corporation for National and Community Service and the Oregon Health Authority, supporting volunteer mobilization and senior fraud prevention work.

Customer concentration is extreme and agency-specific. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development dominates the award count with 61 awards across all five years in the source data, reflecting the CoC Program's annual funding cycles and multi-year continuity. The Administration for Children and Families (22 awards) and the Corporation for National and Community Service (12 awards from the Office of Grants Management, 11 from the parent corporation) round out the top tier, accounting for 80% of recent awards. This concentration reflects Umpqua's positioning as a regional community action agency within the federal social-services infrastructure rather than as a federal contractor competing across multiple customer agencies. The organization has worked with twelve distinct federal agencies in total.

Recent activity shows volatility year to year—nine awards in 2022, twelve in 2023, rising to twenty-three in 2024, then declining to twelve in 2025 and eight through June 2026—but the concentration in rolling annual CoC grants and AmeriCorps formula funding means that most awards carry predictable renewal cycles. Only one award is scheduled to reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, substantially reducing recompete risk for the organization relative to contract-dependent vendors.

Sub-recipient relationships are primarily hosted through the Oregon Department of Housing and Community Services, which routes housing and energy assistance funds to Umpqua across monthly or quarterly sub-awards; the Oregon Health Authority, which flows substance-use-disorder, maternal-infant home visiting, and disease surveillance work; and the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, which administers AmeriCorps and national service program funding. These state-pass-through relationships constitute the bulk of Umpqua's federal footprint by transaction count but typically carry smaller individual award values compared to its direct CoC grants. The organization does not hold seats on federal contract vehicles or GWACs and does not function as a federal contractor.