Minnesota · Nonprofit
Asian Women United of Minnesota
Asian Women United of Minnesota (Minnesota) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,986,087 to it, the largest being POHLAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($550,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $814k
What Asian Women United of Minnesota does
Mission
Asian Women United of Minnesota (AWUM)'s mission is to end domestic violence by promoting safe and healthy relationships within the Asian-Pacific Islander community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
AWUM operates the House of Peace shelter, which contains 24 beds and is staffed 24/7/365. Women fleeing domestic violence, trafficking situations receive comprehensive, customized advocacy services. Child and family advocates offer after school and evening programming to children of all ages. In addition, AWUM employs community advocates who are dispersed throughout the metro area, meeting with women in safe spaces to provide many kinds of support, including accompaniment to court and on information on acquiring various resources. House of peace has in general supported over 100 women and children annually. Community advocates reach out to 500+ individuals annually.
$1,245,427 spent$12,200 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe ARP legal grant helped us with providing legal representation to women in court and hours of legal advocacy. AWUM contracted with 3 attorneys and a couple TBDs to take women's cases. We worked on OFP cases, DANCO cases, immigration issues, Custody issues, Parenting time issues. This was huge since one of the most stressful things for women is when they don't have an attorney to represent them in court.After our legal advocate at DASC resigned in March we were actively looking for a good fit for the position and we finally filled the position in August 25.
The Children's Group at the shelter is a vibrant and supportive community where young residents can engage in a variety of enriching activities. Each day, children participate in a mix of educational and recreational programs designed to promote learning, creativity, and social skills. Activities range from arts and crafts, storytelling, puzzle solving mini-games, and to outdoor play, and sports. Special events, such as themed parties and movie nights are also organized to create joyful memories and a sense of normalcy. The dedicated staff and volunteers work efficiently to ensure that every child feels safe, valued, and cared for, fostering a nurturing environment where they can thrive despite the challenges they face. The Metropolitan Regional Arts Council approved a Fiscal Year 2024 Flexible Support grant of $25,000.00 to our organization on April 23, 2024. AWUM brought in a teaching artist through COMPAS to do a project Ordinary to Extraordinary" that goes through the summer of 2025. The teaching artist has brought in a tapestry of various art projects and themes and will continue doing so during the period of the grant at the shelter a combination of various folk arts from…
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,245,427.
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 $729k to $1.1M (+47%).
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 82% · 2018 82% · 2019 90% · 2020 75% · 2021 72% · 2022 62% · 2023 69% · 2024 71% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Asian Women United of Minnesota’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. 4 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.
Chief executive
Sipra Jha
Executive Director
Board chair
Hao Nguyen
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $111k → $428k.
6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Asian Women United of Minnesota’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
Asian Women United of Minnesota has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
39% 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 Asian Women United of Minnesota.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 28% · 2021 34% · 2022 49% · 2023 53% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of Asian Women United of Minnesota's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
80% of Asian Women United of Minnesota's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $312k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
Asian Women United of Minnesota is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Asian Women United of Minnesota
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 Asian Women United of Minnesota: 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 Asian Women United of Minnesota?
- Asian Women United of Minnesota (Minnesota) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,986,087 to it, the largest being POHLAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($550,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Asian Women United of Minnesota have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,986,087 in grants to Asian Women United of Minnesota, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Asian Women United of Minnesota?
- POHLAD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Asian Women United of Minnesota 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 26 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