Minnesota · Nonprofit
AFRO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
AFRO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,571,160 to it, the largest being United Way of Cass-Clay ($503,528). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $695k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $25k
What Afro American Development Association does
Mission
Our mission is to build capacity of our grassroots beneficiaries in needs-based trainings, sustainable development, economic empowerment, conflict resolution & peace building by promoting transformational development and gender empowerment.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Eshara partnersthe eshara project began as a workforce development initiative to help new americans achieve their full potential and secure living-wage employment. Aada helped unite culturally specific partners to launch innovative job readiness services adapted to the needs of new americans in the fargo-moorhead community. Our 4 founding partners include the somali community development of north dakota (scdnd), sudanese community of fargo-moorhead (scfm), south sudan foundation, and aada. We continue to work collaboratively to improve financial health and wellbeing for new american families.eshara has also created a platform for partners to collaboratively address other emerging needs. When covid-19 struck our communities, eshara partners quickly came together to respond. We developed strategies to deliver covid-19 prevention and response services using eshara partners as a hub for service delivery to the broader community.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $53k to $72k (+36%).
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: 2020 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $68k → $163k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 AFRO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION’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
AFRO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 AFRO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 23% · 2019 32% · 2020 33% · 2021 34% · 2022 29% · 2023 58% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
46% of AFRO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
63% of AFRO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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.
Organizations like AFRO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 AFRO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: 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 AFRO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION?
- AFRO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,571,160 to it, the largest being United Way of Cass-Clay ($503,528). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFRO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,571,160 in grants to AFRO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION?
- United Way of Cass-Clay is the largest funder on record, with $503,528 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 18 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