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African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

$121k
Granted FY2023
7
Itemized grants FY2023
7
Organizations funded FY2023
71%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$70k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$18,805
Organizations funded a year
2 to 18
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$25M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 71% of the organizations African Development Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20237$70k71%
FY202218$209k100%
FY20202$10kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Community Improvement$284kReligion$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Geire Properties Inc$33,8052n/a
Oasis Mediterranean Grill$30,0001n/a
Arwa Fashion USA Co$25,0002n/a
Goodland Properties Inc Dba Bezalel and Lelo LLC$20,0001n/a
Haji's Locksmith LLC$15,0001n/a
Haidars Logistics LLC$14,0001n/a
Jambo Africa Inc$12,5001n/a
The Curl Loft LLP Dba Uptown Curl$10,0001n/a
Time Motor Sales$10,0001n/a
Ilham Trading Company$10,0001n/a
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All grantees of African Development Center by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Geire Properties Inc$33,8052n/a
Oasis Mediterranean Grill$30,0001n/a
Arwa Fashion USA Co$25,0002n/a
Goodland Properties Inc Dba Bezalel and Lelo LLC$20,0001n/a
Haji's Locksmith LLC$15,0001n/a
Haidars Logistics LLC$14,0001n/a
Jambo Africa Inc$12,5001n/a
The Curl Loft LLP Dba Uptown Curl$10,0001n/a
Time Motor Sales$10,0001n/a
Ilham Trading Company$10,0001n/a
Midwest Developers Inc$10,0001n/a
Kids Center St Paul Ltd$10,0001n/a
Jetsstar LLC$8,8641n/a
Hope Hair Braiding LLC$7,5001n/a
Nabil Property LLC$7,5001n/a
Addis Travel Services LLC$7,5001n/a
Photo Shop LLC$7,5001n/a
Procare Health Corp$7,5001n/a
Sanag Restaurant 2 LLC$7,0001n/a
Voices LLC Dba Voices Magazine$6,5001n/a
Twins Halal Meat LLC$6,5001n/a
The Park Liquor Outlet Corp$6,0001n/a
Godson Trucking LLC$6,0001n/a
Minnesota Swahili Christian Congregation$5,0001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to African Development Center through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About African Development Center

How much does African Development Center give?
African Development Center reported 7 itemized grants totaling $69,805, out of $121,031 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does African Development Center fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Community Improvement (98%), Religion (2%).
Who are African Development Center's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Geire Properties Inc ($34k), Oasis Mediterranean Grill ($30k), Arwa Fashion USA Co ($25k).
Does African Development Center fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is African Development Center based?
African Development Center is based in MN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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