Minnesota · Nonprofit
AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN
AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,328,795 to it, the largest being THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ($817,568). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $273k
What Afghan Cultural Society of Mn does
Mission
To advocate for and empower our communities through a range of services, including assisting them in improving their mental and social health, promoting economic self-sufficiency, and creating a space for cultural well being.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides a range of services aimed at ensuring newly arrived afghan refugees successfully navigate resettlement in their new home. Through advocacy, workshops cultural events and programming, the organization creates pathways to social connection and support economic self-sufficiency, and collective wellbeing.in 2024, acs served over 950 people with 9 programs and hosted 14 community events throughout the year.
$1,203,700 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,203,700.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $124k to $338k (+172%).
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: 2023 93% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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.
Chief executive
Nasreen Sajady
Executive director
Board chair
Sahil Handa
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $370k → $567k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. 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
AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 39% · 2023 39% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k 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
AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$600k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$500k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN: 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 AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN?
- AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,328,795 to it, the largest being THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ($817,568). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $2,328,795 in grants to AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN?
- THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE is the largest funder on record, with $817,568 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN 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 9 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