Minnesota · Nonprofit
AFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES
AFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,400 to it, the largest being BCBSM Foundation Inc ($222,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $348k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $382k
- Net assets
- $391k
What African Community Senior Services does
Mission
African Community Senior Services is guided by its community champions, empowers immigrants, refugees and underserved communities, in minneapolis and st paul, through its programs that promote health, transportation, education, and economic success and leadership development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
African Community Senior Services(ACSS) is guided by its community champions, empowers immigrants, refugees, and other underserved communities in Minneapolis and St Paul, through its programs that promote health,Transportation, educational and economic success, and leadership development and
$218,484 spent$347,608 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $218,484.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $346k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2017 72% · 2018 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of AFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $115k.
From the IRS filings of AFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES’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
AFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% 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 AFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 65% · 2022 57% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“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
87% of AFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
AFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 AFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES: 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 AFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES?
- AFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,400 to it, the largest being BCBSM Foundation Inc ($222,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $382,400 in grants to AFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES?
- BCBSM Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $222,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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