Minnesota · Nonprofit
ACCOLA
ACCOLA (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $28M
What Accola does
Mission
Accola improves opportunities for immigrants through education, provides safe and dignified housing for women as they heal from trauma, and helps connect people's spirituality with social justice action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Learning in style school june 2025 board update2024-25 school year highlightsstaffing. Lis began the year with 3 new teachers and offered sequenced english classes from the pre-lit to advanced levels once again. We also added an office manager, a digital literacy coordinator, and (temporarily) a social worker. Rehiring the social worker position waschallenging. In the meantime, supervised students from the university of st. Thomas have provided case management and social work services on site and at ust this year.lis students. In 2024-25, lis students represented 40 countries of origin and 25 first languages. (almost 80% of students cite either somali or spanish as their first language.) for the first time in many years, lis has waiting lists for several class times at several levels.as of june 1:in 24-25, lis had 230 student participants (12+ hours), 20% more than the previous year (187).lis saw a 24% yty increase in student contact hours: (from 12,930 to 17,047 for recording year ending april 30, 2025).level gain increases: 45% of eligible students made at least one level gain (vs. 38% in 23- 24).volunteers. The lis volunteer cohort grew to 15 from 11 and includes volunteers…
$634,111 spent$2,667 earned by the program38% of program spendingProgram utilizationcapacity: 29current residents: 28lived at sarah's between april, 2025, and june 15th, 2025: 29employmentfound employment: 3working full-time: 20working part-time: 4current residents without work permission/unable to work now: 5financial independence... Paying for their own groceries: 4paying for their own phone bill: 6paying for their own bus passes: 5cover their own expenses and are contributing back to sarah's: 2educationcurrent resident in college or work training classes (actively in classes now): 11current resident in driving instruction classes (actively during this time period): 11current residents who completed college or work training: 0going to english classes (including class on-site): 9transportationbus passes given out: 30current resident who passed the written test and got their learner's permit: 0current resident who passed the driving test and got their driver's license: 1therapy for trauma.started therapy for trauma: 0graduation from or significant mile marker in therapy for trauma: 0may 1, 2025, new on-site therapy education group beginning at sarah's with 4 additional residents.ongoing about a dozen residents are receiving therapy at the…
$633,269 spentof which $18,800 as grants$29,180 earned by the program38% of program spendingAt wisdom ways, we're redesigning our program to: identify and address unmet spiritual needs in the community, expand and diversify our roster of participants and presenters, and tie spiritual enrichment more explicitly to action that advances social justice,while deepening reciprocal engagement with mission-aligned community partners andstrategically establishing new partnerships, resourcing Accola programs to better support participants' spiritual lives, and weaving meaningful spiritual reflection throughout Accola's work.
$414,320 spent$39,849 earned by the program25% of program spendingAccola's advancement department integrates fundraising, marketing and communications, and community engagement into a unified strategy that connects people to Accola's mission and programs. Guided by Accola's values of inclusion, compassion, learning, and accountability, the department tells the story of transformation occurring through learning in style school, sarah's oasis, and wisdom ways, while inviting individuals and organizations to participate in that work.fund development-builds and maintains relationships with donors, foundations, and institutional partners.-develops and executes annual and long-term fundraising strategies that diversify revenue sources, including individual giving, major gifts, events, grants, and planned giving.-coordinates donor stewardship, recognition, and reporting to ensure transparency and gratitude.-Accola has a contract with saint mary's health clinics (smhc). Smhc pays for a portion of the grant manager's time, providing a source of earned income for Accola.marketing and communications-shapes Accola's brand identity and messaging to reflect its mission, vision, and values.-manages storytelling across digital, print, and media platforms to…
$88,779 earned by the program
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,681,700.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $27M to $28M (+5%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 0% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of ACCOLA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Kevin Berg
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $20M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest CSJ Ministries Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ACCOLA raised.
From the IRS filings of ACCOLA’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.
How concentrated its funding is
ACCOLA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACCOLA.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
63% of ACCOLA'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. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
ACCOLA's revenue fell 91% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ACCOLA
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.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Csj Ministries Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACCOLA: 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 ACCOLA?
- ACCOLA (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACCOLA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,000 in grants to ACCOLA.
- Who is the largest funder of ACCOLA?
- Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACCOLA 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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