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African Economic Development Solutions

African Economic Development Solutions (aeds) builds wealth within african immigrant communities in the twin cities through economic development activities. We work throughout the twin cities metropolitan area to create wealth, lift immigrant communities out of poverty, and contribute to and benefit from the region's vibrant economy.

$3.1M
Granted FY2020
203
Itemized grants FY2020
201
Organizations funded FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$2.6M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$187,500
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$14M

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alkarama Mall Inc$187,5001n/a
Madina Management Group$177,5001n/a
Riverside Mall$157,5001n/a
Hogan Bard LLC$20,0001n/a
Burning Brothers Brewing LLC$10,0001n/a
BC Tire$10,0001n/a
Positive Image$10,000110%
Lakes Adult Day Care Inc$10,0001n/a
Hami Express Inc$10,0001n/a
MinnesotaColdTv$10,0001n/a
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All grantees of African Economic Development Solutions by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alkarama Mall Inc$187,5001n/a
Madina Management Group$177,5001n/a
Riverside Mall$157,5001n/a
Hogan Bard LLC$20,0001n/a
Burning Brothers Brewing LLC$10,0001n/a
BC Tire$10,0001n/a
Positive Image$10,000110%
Lakes Adult Day Care Inc$10,0001n/a
Hami Express Inc$10,0001n/a
MinnesotaColdTv$10,0001n/a
Tamra L King$10,0001n/a
Heimie's Haberdashery$10,0001n/a
Best Brows Studio A$10,0001n/a
Classic Acupuncture Services and Chinese Medicine Inc$10,0001n/a
Diamond Nails And Spa LLC Inc$10,0001n/a
Kafka Too Enterprise Inc$10,0001n/a
Hamline Incorporated$10,0001n/a
Snelling LLC$10,0001n/a
Sir Cerresso Fort Boxing & Fitness$10,0001n/a
Hafner Realty$10,0001n/a
Just Truffles Inc$10,0001n/a
classic designs llc$10,0001n/a
Brock-Frederick Molden$10,0001n/a
2RHawkins LLC$10,0001n/a
SRS Cards Inc$10,0001n/a
Amazed Group LLC$10,0001n/a
Jammin Wings$10,0001n/a
Minnesota Music Club Inc$10,0001n/a
Advantage Picture Framing Inc$10,0001n/a
Juba Electronics Services Inc$10,0001n/a
Peggy Webb$10,0001n/a
House of Talents LLC$10,0001n/a
Teste Vetinam food$10,0001n/a
Good Luck Charmer Cloth & Cream LLC$10,0001n/a
Viking Airport taxi LLC$10,0001n/a
Star Nail$10,0001n/a
Hair by Tiffany MN$10,0001n/a
Brending Electrolysis Inc$10,0001n/a
GI Wireless LLC$10,0001n/a
Lima Styles$10,0001n/a
Top Style LLC$10,0001n/a
Triple A's Deli LLC$10,0001n/a
Vico'S Collections LLC$10,0001n/a
Skyy Event & Designs LLC$10,0001n/a
Wung Lee Supermarket$10,0001n/a
H&M Digital Market LLC$10,0001n/a
Rachel Farganis Photography LLC$10,0001n/a
Tuma's Catering LLC$10,0001n/a
scrum technologies$10,0001n/a
EWC MN Three LLC$10,0001n/a
North Garden Theater LLC$10,0001n/a
Akwuba Law Office$10,0001n/a
Soultry Unlimited Sizes$10,0001n/a
Ingridients Caribbean Cafe LLC$10,0001n/a
FortuneFive Sports$10,0001n/a
AL-Matar Hajj and Umrah Inc$10,0001n/a
Bangkok Thai Deli Restaurant LLC$10,0001n/a
Kng LLC$10,0001n/a
R A James & Associates$10,0001n/a
Minnesota Chimney Cakes LLC$10,0001n/a
Nasibwireless inc$10,0001n/a
Phil in the Circle LLC$10,0001n/a
Ahmed Mohamed$10,0001n/a
The Shoe Factory LLC$10,0001n/a
Victor Entertainment INC$10,0001n/a
St Paul Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy LLC$10,0001n/a
Leonura LLC$10,0001n/a
Phi Chay Thai Cuisine of MN Corporation$10,0001n/a
House of Gristle LLC$10,0001n/a
Ei8hty6ix Branding$10,0001n/a
Spinning Wylde LLC$10,0001n/a
Nimostyle$10,0001n/a
Azzone Security Investigation Agency Inc$10,0001n/a
Schmidty's Sports Barbers Inc$10,0001n/a
M&B Hair Braiding & Beauty Supply$10,0001n/a
7th Street Beer Company LLC$10,0001n/a
V & I Best Steak House$10,0001n/a
Istabrak Restaurant Corp$10,0001n/a
Joan's in the Park$10,0001n/a
Pompadorz Inc$10,0001n/a
Prism Holistic Life Coaching & Consulting LLC$10,0001n/a
Samia Adish$10,0001n/a
Herbal Retail Sales$10,0001n/a
Barely Brothers Records LLC$10,0001n/a
bMack LLC$10,0001n/a
Gigi Decker DBA A Sensitive Touch$10,0001n/a
Stogies Inc$10,0001n/a
Center For Lost Objects LLC$10,0001n/a
P&C Massage Corp$10,0001n/a
True Stone Lowertown Inc$10,0001n/a
University Reality Limited$10,0001n/a
Fly Freak Yoga LLC$10,0001n/a
Hobbs Home Care LLC$10,0001n/a
Ncxt LLC$10,0001n/a
Spoils of Wear LLC$10,0001n/a
Evergreen Acupuncture LLC$10,0001n/a
Healthy Eating MN LLC$10,0001n/a
Divine Auto Sales LLC$10,0001n/a
St Paul Yoga Center$10,0001n/a
McAllister Music LCC$10,0001n/a
Infinite Hair$10,0001n/a
Woodburry Tobaco & Cigar Depot Plus$10,0001n/a
Awash Market LLC$10,0001n/a
La Nails Eagan Inc$10,0001n/a
West Bank Furniture$10,0001n/a
Mill City Laser LLC$10,0001n/a
Seward Pharmacy$10,0001n/a
The Midway Entertainment Group LLC$10,0001n/a
Kong & Su Tax Service$10,0001n/a
A1 Cuts Barbershop LLC$10,0001n/a
Skyline Market$10,0001n/a
Rotan inc$10,0001n/a
The Chair Hairstyling$10,0001n/a
Winding Trail Books LLC$10,0001n/a
Kula Fitness LLC$10,0001n/a
Blush & Whim LLC$10,0001n/a
Zimmerman Dry Goods LLC$10,0001n/a
Lumin Bodywork LLC$10,0001n/a
Go get it tobacco LLC$10,0001n/a
Rohobot Hair Brading Salon$10,0001n/a
Little North Fork Limited Liability Company$10,0001n/a

Plus 80 recipients with no EIN on record ($918k), not named here.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Metropolitan Consortium of Community DevelopersMN37.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About African Economic Development Solutions

How much does African Economic Development Solutions give?
African Economic Development Solutions reported 203 itemized grants totaling $2,630,000, out of $3,100,457 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does African Economic Development Solutions fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Human Services (66%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%), Health (12%).
Who are African Economic Development Solutions's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Alkarama Mall Inc ($188k), Madina Management Group ($178k), Riverside Mall ($158k).
Which funders back the same organizations as African Economic Development Solutions?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers.
Where is African Economic Development Solutions based?
African Economic Development Solutions 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 201 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 2020, released 2020. 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 $66k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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