Minnesota · Nonprofit
A BETTER SOCIETY
A BETTER SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $85 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($85). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $102k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $85
- Net assets
- $123k
What A Better Society does
Mission
We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in 2008 with the goal of strengthening communities by using a unique approach. We take new social ideas, incubate them, and scale them into sustainable projects.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
A Better Society (abs) continued its leadership in delivering high-impact projects that strengthen and connect our community. Project life-cycle, abs's first initiative launched in 2008, remains one of our most meaningful efforts. In 2024, the program provided over 540 bikes to individuals in need. Volunteers played a key role by repairing and restoring bikes donated by community members, ensuring access to basic transportation for many throughout the county. Through our mobile bike repair clinics, abs offered free repairs at seven community events, helping fix 262 bikes and keeping residents safely on the move. Abs also hosted three fix-it clinics, where volunteers helped community members repair household items-reducing waste and promoting sustainability. In partnership with carver county, abs took a leadership role in developing the carver county family resource center (frc). This multi-year collaboration brings together organizations and agencies to provide essential services and support for families. Located in chaska, the frc serves as a welcoming hub where families and caregivers can access trusted resources and build meaningful connections that help them thrive.
$60,575 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $60,575.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $6k to $83k (+1183%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
88% of A BETTER SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Khai Tran
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $32 → $33.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A BETTER SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of A BETTER SOCIETY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
A BETTER SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like A BETTER SOCIETY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A BETTER SOCIETY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A BETTER SOCIETY?
- A BETTER SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $85 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($85). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does A BETTER SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $85 in grants to A BETTER SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A BETTER SOCIETY?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A BETTER SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing